Image Collections
Brain biodiversity bank atlases
Provides access to atlases of the human, sheep, bottlenose dolphin, and axolotl brain
CalPhotos: plants
Images of native California plants
Caltech archives PhotoNet
Chip Shot
The Chip Shots website explores the hidden beauty in some of today's hottest microprocessors as visualized under a microscope. Using a variety of unique, highly-refined reflected optical microscopy techniques, we have developed a large collection of full-color photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) illustrating the beautiful patterns observed on integrated circuit surfaces
Climate timeline exploring weather & climate change through the powers of 10
"Developed as an information resource covering the fundamentals of climate change over varying times scales, the Climate Timeline Information Tool uses a "powers of ten" exponential or logarithmic approach to looking at different time scales. While the focus is on past climate change, one of the goals of the site is to provide a context and background for framing current and future climate change."
Curtis botanical magazine
Department of the Environment and Heritage's online image database
This image database contains images the Australian Dept. of the Environment and Heritage owns and that are copyright cleared and available free of charge for use by the media, students, and industry organizations (but not for use in advertising or other commercial purposes). Includes links to other Dept. of the Environment and Heritage image databases
Electron microscopy unit snow page
Images of snow crystal structure obtained with a low temperature scanning electron microscope
FishScope time-lapse recordings and confocal images dealing with the developmental biology of fish /
Flora Danica online
This site consists of digitized images of 3,240 copper-engraved plates from the Flora Danica, a collection of folio-sized pictures of wild plants in Denmark that was compiled between 1761 and 1874. The database is searchable by keyword or browseable by plate number or date
Forestry images the source for forest health and silviculture images /
Image categories include forest pests; silvicultural practices; invasive organisms; forest plants; wildlife; and people, places, and scenes
Freshwater and marine image bank
An ongoing digital collection of public domain images related to freshwater and marine topics in all their diversity. Digital reproductions of mostly book illustrations include images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. Its scope is global
Freshwater mussels America's hidden treasure
FWS online video
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's multimedia portal, offering a wide variety of video and audio products
geomorphic response of rivers to dams March 11-13, 2003, University of Nevada, Reno
Talks are presented via video and transcribed text with accompanying slides
Internet bird collection IBC
The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavor with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna. It is an online audiovisual library of footage of the world's birds that is available to the general public free of charge. While the initial aim is to post at least one video per species, the long-term objective is to eventually include several videos showing a variety of biological aspects (e.g., feeding, breeding, etc.) for every species
Japanese ant image database
Mount St. Helens post-eruption chemistry database
Mount St. Helens succession collection
The Mount St. Helens Succession Collection consists of 235 photographs taken by Dr. Roger del Moral since it's eruption in 1980. These consist of a series of "permanent plot views", photos taken of the same site over a period of years, general aspects of impacted habitats, and and photos of some of the more common species of plants
NOAA Central Library photo collection--main page
Plants of Hawaii
A collection of images, maps, and reports on plants of Hawaii. Includes over 8,000 high resolution, copyright-free images for more than 1,000 species of native and non-native plants from Hawaii; Maui distribution maps for over 100 non-native plants; and reports for about 100 non-native plants on Maui
Plants of western Washington collection
A collection of over 600 views of plants commonly found in western Washington. Images provide "aspect" level identification such that a person with a little training could identify the plant illustrated to species. Much ecological information is also provided. The collection was designed as an aid to student learning at the University of Washington
Revised relief globe slide set 35-mm slides or images on CD-ROM /
Using the "On-line slide preview" feature, one can see fourteen color views of the earth in shaded relief, showing land and undersea topography. The planet is seen from vantage points over the poles and each major ocean and land mass. Also included are a rectangular Mercator projection view of the whole Earth, as well as displays of crustal plates and their relation to world seismic activity
Salmon collection
"The Salmon collection contains documents, photographs and other original material describing the roots of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Material specific to this collection is comprised of text drawn from the pamphlet and book collections housed in the UW Libraries, Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives Division. Additional relevant material is taken from existing digital collections which include the Tollman and Canaris Photographs, John N. Cobb Photographs, Industries and Occupations Photographs, American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, and the Freshwater and Marine Images."
Sea lamprey fishtank a gallery of sea lamprey images and photos
Selected computer images of southeastern U.S. marine fishes
Texas vascular plant image library
Digitized botanical illustrations and photographs of Texas vascular plants
Urbana atlas of pathology
Vascular plant image gallery
This site provides images of vascular plants, arranged alphabetically by family. The database is also searchable via a string query. A link is also provided to the Bioinformatics Working Group home page
vPlants a virtual herbarium of the Chicago region
Online searchable herbarium providing herbarium specimen data and digital images of specimens and labels. Currently contains data on plant specimens from three institutions with rich Chicago region collections: the Field Museum of Natural History, the Morton Arboretum, and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Specimen data from additional institutions such as the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Chicago Academy of Science will be added
Web images of North American moth species
Links to photos and drawings of over 3,700 moth species. Includes caterpillars and adult forms


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