ASCIi Group

Site Seekers

Each month, a member of the group will give a brief presentation on web sites. Some members present sites based on the same theme (for example, real estate), others tell us about sites that cover a broad range of subjects.

2007

• October - Carol Skoglund
  Using the Computer to Research Seashells
  
  
  • Panamic Province Seashells
    Skoglund Shells.png
    
    

    Shells in my collection
    
    

  • UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
    http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
    
    

    Marine biomes
    
    

  • Google Earth
    http://earth.google.com/
    
    

    An excellent free tool for
    finding lattitude and longitude
    
    

    • Cholla Bay, Sonora, Mexico
      Cholla Bay.kmz
      
      

      A great shell collecting place
      
      To see this, you need Google Earth
      installed on your computer.
      
      

    • Cholla Bay on Google Maps
      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...
      
      

      The same place on Google Maps
      (for those who don't have Google Earth yet)
      
      

    • Skoglund Dredging Sites
      Dredging Sites.jpg
      
      

      Each pin marks a place where we dredged for shells
      
      

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
    http://sbnature.org
    
    
    • Collections
      http://sbcollections.org/
      
      

      How to find a particular shell that interests you
      
      

    • Captain Clam
      http://picasaweb.google.com/captclam/pan...
      
      

      Using holotypes is essential in taxonomy
      
      

    • Marine Bivalvia of Tropical West America
      Book Poster for AMS 2003 draft 3.pdf
      
      

      We are working on this new book
      
      

  • San Diego Shell Club
    http://sandiegoshellclub.terryarnold.net...
    
    
    • The Festivus
      http://hostingprod.com/@terryarnold.net/...
      
      

      This scientific journal of the San Diego Shell Club has a worldwide distribution
      
      

    • Festivus Supplements
      http://hostingprod.com/@terryarnold.net/...
      
      

      Skoglund publications on mollusks (seashells)
      
      

    • Festivus Scientific Word List
      http://hostingprod.com/@terryarnold.net/...
      
      

      Scientific mollusk names you can add to your spell-checker, by the late Paul Skoglund
      
      

  • Marine Animal Photos
    http://www.poppe-images.com/
    
    

    Colorful photos of mollusks and other animals