• Go to HYDROSPHERE, Limnology, Saline Lakes, Freshwater Lakes, and ESS (Earth System Science)

• Aral Sea - Requiem for a dying sea, article by People and Planet maganize.
• Aral Sea - NASA-JSC images
• Get more information about the Aral from the Aral Sea Area Desertification Change Detection Study being conducted by the Central Asia Research and Remediation Exchange (CARRE) at San Diego State University.
• See the USGS - EARTHSHOTS site of the Aral Sea.
   

 
• First women at Pole - see research at Lake Vanda and Lake Bonney (Detroit News article about Jean Pearson)
• International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research (ICAIR) or Gateway Antarctica.
• Lake Bonney in one of the Dry Valleys (from the National Science Foundation).
• LEARNZ - Linking Education and Antarctic Research in New Zealand and note specifically the LEARNZ-95 resources on Lake Vanda and Victoria Land to find transcripts on an audio tour about the lake and the so-called "Dry Valleys" (ID and Password required).
• McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Satellite Image Product - of particular interest
• New Zealand Antarctic Institute and its Education Portal are particularly helpful.
• Pictures Resulting From McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research - McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) - University of Colorado
   

• Laguna Mar Chiquita by the
• CENTRO DE ZOOLOGIA APLICADA - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
• Laguna Mar Chiquita region (Spanish). General tourist information.
• Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network from Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences- Laguna Mar Chiquita, Argentina
   

• From the  Environment Australia site see Welcome to Inland Waters and read/search about Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia -
• Lake Amadeus and the Karinga Creek system. Note specifically references to its status as a refuge area.
• See also the description of the Lake Eyre Basin (inland salt wetland), with references to status as a refuge area--and see the larger site on the Lake Eyre Basin Coordinating Group.
• Lake Eyre - South Australia, is another sensitive indicator of global weather patterns, such as El Niño/La Niña episodes. Drying of the lake has been associated with past El Niño events, while flooding has occurred during La Niña episodes.NASA-JSC
• Australia: Lake McKay - - NASA-JSC
• Hinds (Dry) Lake, Western Australia, Australia November 1985
   

• Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship - Dead Sea Scrolls - Library of Congress
• Catholic Encyclopaedia on the Dead Sea
• Dead Sea Canal case study project from TED - Trade Environment Database.
• Dead Sea Rift Valley - Oct 1984 - JSC. - image from Johnson Space Center
• Dead Sea Tourism - Israel and Dead Sea Guide
• Dead Sea Groundwater Basin - from the USGS from the Middle East Water Data Banks Project.
• Dead Sea Scrolls - see also the
• Dead Sea Scrolls Web Page at the Divinity School of the University of St Andrews. 
• ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES OF THE DEAD SEA BASIN AND THEIR SUSTAINABLE USE: PROBLEMS AND COOPERATION BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES OF THE BASIN By:  Ayman Rabi 1. - from the Protected Areas Programme, UK.
• Golan Heights and Sea of Galilee water problems in Israel.
• Grand Water Research Institute of Israel - databases, people, water problems in Israel. and problems around Ramallah, Palestine entitled: Jerusalem Water Undertaking.
• Jordan Times (1998) article about the project to link Red, Dead Seas awaiting $10m for feasibility study.
• Library of Congress materials relating to the World of the Scrolls.
• Salt Evaporation Ponds image of the Dead Sea by NASA..
   

• Catalan Map of the Caspian Sea showing suggested location of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat.
• Caspian Sea GOOS Project - UNESCO (doc) - GOOS
• Caspian Sea level as a problem of diagnosis and prognosis of the regional climate change -G. S. Golitsyn Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Caspian Sea and the Volga River Delta Johnson Space Center/NASA.  Go to Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
• COLUMBIA CASPIAN PROJECT - Woods Hole
• Fall and Rise of the Garabogaz Aylagy (Kara Bogaz Gol)* Lagoon - Woods Hole - Oil and Environment Security
  in the Black and Caspian Seas
• MODIS Image - Caspian Sea (more here of Iran and Persian Gulf region) - PARS Times
• Satellite images of the Caspian Sea - Redtail Canyon.com
• Volga River Delta - Earth-as-Art - Library of Congress: Where the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea, it creates an extensive delta. The Volga Delta is comprised of more than 500 channels and sustains the most productive fishing grounds in Eurasia.
• WWF (World Wildlife Fund) - UK - article about the plight of Sturgeon and Caviar Could Face Extinction from the Caspian Sea.
• UNESCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - IOC Workshop Report No. 108
  on Sea Level Rise and the Multidisciplinary Studies of Environmental Processes in the Caspian Sea Region Paris, France 9-12 May 3 995 UNESCO IOC Workshop Report No. ...
  http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/IOCpub/iocpdf/w108.pdf
   

• Andean Salars: Salar de Coipasa lies just north of Uyuní and responds similarly to El Niño/La Niña rainfall cycles. NASA-JSC
• Largest salt lake in the world"...
• Online album...
• NASA satellite (Galileo) image of a False Color Mosaic of the Andes - Salar de Uyuni (JPEG) a saline lake.
• Salar de Uyumi - Feb 14, 2002 - NASA-JSC
• See also this German website of the Salar.... and
• Salar de Uyuni and South Lipez Adventure .....travel adventure site--Condor Journeys

African Soda Lakes
   

• Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia (live article)
• Lake Nakuru National Park region and its flamingoes
• Lake Natron with some explanation - see also this image and caption. - NASA-JSC
• Limnology - the study of lakes and inland seas
• Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania and flamingoes flying - by Carl Rosenberg, Leonid Kruglyak, and Carl Axel Rosenberg.
• Plate tectonics and geology of Kenya.
• Parks and Preserves - Kenya-ology.

• Audubon Salton Sea Campaign on Resolving the Problems of the Salton Sea
• Salton Sea Basin - Colorado Delta mothersite - SDSU (San Diego State University).
• Salton Sea Environmental Education Geographic Information System Project: University of Redlands
• Salton Sea Project - California Environmental Protection Agency - LINKS
• Salton Sea Project - UC Davis
• Salton Trough - LAKE CAHUILLA from the USGS Groundwater Atlas, with links to the geologic history and a map of Pleistocene lakes in the western United States, and a satellite photo of the Gulf of California.
• USGS - satellite images of Imperial Valley - Salton Sea region - part of the EARTHSHOTS site.
   

• Andrew Ford, Modeling the Environment - Chapter 1. Overview - Exercises - Models and Cases (Mono Lake Case Study)
• Inyo National Forest - GORP - Mono Lake Area
• Goldrush World Access Presents - Photos on Mono lake
• Mono Lake Committee - excellent! Guide to activities, links, etc.
• Mono Lake - Tufa Towers - JPEG image
• Mono Lake Homepage - Yosemite Gold tourist-oriented site
• Mono Lake - Photo gallery - Mono Lake Committee
• Natural History of Mono Lake - Mono Lake Committee
• Overview Mono Lake & Towers, etc. - JPEG image
• The un-Official Cal Adventures Sea Kayaking Home Page -- Fall 1995 Mono Lake Trip
• Tufa Towers - Mono Lake - JPEG image
• Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network from Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences--links to Mono Lake.
  

• Ford's HYDROSPHERE list
• Indigenous Peoples and Wetlands Networks ...
• LIMNOLOGY links
• Pacific Northwest Wetland Reference Links  
• Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network from Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
• Wetlands resource links from the Sierra Club.
• WetNet - The Wetlands Network (Texas) homepage.
• Wetlands and Riparian Center of Utah