Plasma Science

General Education Resources

• Plasma Dictionary from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California
  Fusion Chart prepared by the Contemporary Physics Education Project
• Glossary on fusion and plasma science from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  Fusion and plasma science FAQ
  
• Plasma Sciences and Technologies Education Outreach
  General Atomics, San Diego, California
  Plasma sciences outreach page from General Atomics for teachers, students and the public, features national and facility events, interactive media, curricula, virtual tours, viewgraph presentation and brochures, including new brochure on "Plasma Physics, The science of the Fourth State of Matter"
• Space Science Institute, Boulder Colorado
  Education and outreach for space sciences and plasma science, features workshops, exhibits (Electric Space), K-12 curricula, Space Weather Center, MarsQuest
  
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Education Programs, Princeton, New Jersey
  science education programs, Internet Plasma Physics Educational Experience
• Graduate Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
  graduate program in basic plasma physics, magnetic fusion, and plasma astrophysics
  
• Physics Education Resources - PhysicsED University of Washington, Seattle
  An integration of many education resources for physics [includes Java applet to illustrate Electron Plasma Simulation within 'the virtual laboratory' portion of other physics links].
  
• Physics 2000, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
  Extensive set of interactive Java applets illustrating various concepts of modern physics; accessible for all ages but useful for both K-12 and college level. Contents: Physics 2000(What is it?, Favorite applets, Contents), Einstein's Legacy, and The Atomic Lab. Other topics included are X-rays & CAT, electromagnetic waves, quantum atom, microwave ovens, lasers, TV & laptop screens, Bose-Einstein condensates, and interference experiments. Plasmas not specifically discussed but many interactive applets are relevant to plasma processes.
• Internet Pilot to Physics, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
  ' Virtual laboratory' - also at PhysicsEd above,
  includes VRML Gallery of Electromagnetism, electric and magnetic fields in a wave-guide, charged particle motion in a uniform and constant EM field, electron plasma simulation
• Education Online Sources, Providence, Rhode Island
• On-Line K-12 Resource Guide (EdWeb) Andy Carvin, Bonita, California
• Exploratorium, San Francisco, California
• Cubic Science, Inc. Virtual Physics
  CD "Virtual Physics: Escape from Brain Death"
  - includes some plasma material
  
• Eames Office Powers of Ten
  Powers of Ten film, flip book toy, interactive, poster, book, CD
  
• NASA's Education Program  NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
• Space Science Education, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
• Space Science Electronic Picture Book, NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
• SOLARMAX, a breathtaking giant-screen adventure about the awesome vastness and mysterious power of the closest star. Film description and IMAX theaters listings are presented.

Fusion Plasmas

• Fusion Energy Educational Web Site   FusEdWeb  - from three mirror sites:
  PPPL - Princeton, New Jersey http://fusedweb.pppl.gov  
  LLNL  - Livermore, California   http://fusedweb.llnl.gov
  Europe - http://lnxb201.aug.ipp.mpg.de/~dpc/FusEdWeb/
  Student science resource, online fusion course, Fusion FAQ, plasma dictionary
  fusion and plasma FAQ, glossary, and site list, education and outreach ideas
  
• Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience
  Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  virtual tokamak, fusion data analysis, ask scientist, interactive physics (matter, energy, E&M, fusion)
• Fusion Energy
  Education Web Site for Fusion Energy
  General Atomics, San Diego, CA
  fusion introduction, DIII-D tokamak information, teacher resources, fusion slide show
• Laser and Fusion Education
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  ICF, plasmas and fusion intro, heavy ion fusion (HIF), plasmas for national security, fusion education resources, NOVA virtual tour
• Inertial Fusion Energy
  University of California Berkeley
  includes artists's conception of inertial fusion power plant
• Office of Fusion Energy
  U. S. Department of Energy
  Office of Energy Research
  magnetic confinement fusion project offices, various graphics available here and at laboratories, fusion education page
  with resources and links
  
• Office of Inertial Fusion
  U. S. Department of Energy
  Office of Defense Programs
  inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and
  National Ignition Facility Project offices,
  links to key programs and resources at GA, LLNL, LANL, NRL, Sandia,University of Rochester
  

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Space Plasmas

• Windows to the Universe
  University of Michigan
  Earth and space sciences, space weather, planetary magnetospheres, space plasmas
  
• The Science Education Gateway
  A Comet's Tale; How Satellites See; Best of the Solar System; Sunspots
• Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
  NASA Education and Public Outreach
  official NASA Education and Public Outreach homepage for the space physics field including space plasmas; a partnership between UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center topics: features Sun-Earth connection tutorial, resource index, science missions
• NASA Extraterrestrial Physics Education
  New education and outreach website from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center covers the sciences of astronomy, chemistry, and physics of the solar system and beyond. It aims at middle school students and above, and their parents and teachers. The site presents a gallery of pictures and cartoons, missions logos and a mission summary table, tutorials, resources for educators (local resources), recommended publications mostly of a general space science and astrophysics nature, and "places to go."
  
• Space Physics & Aeronomy on the Web: an On-line Open House
  educational resources, classroom activities, data resources, real-time data/campaigns
  
• Mission to Geospace
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  sun-earth connection, geospace, space plasmas, ask Dr. G. O. Space, art gallery,
  ISTP science news
• Space Weather Bureau
  NASA MSFC Space Sciences Laboratory
  real-time space weather, space weather tutorial sunspots and the solar cycle (www.sunspotcycle.com) earth's aurora (wwwssl.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome /pad/aurora_today.htm)
• Electric Space Exhibit
  Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado
  Space Weather Center, image gallery,
  resources, exhibits including web page for Electric Space Exhibit Project
• POETRY
  Public Outreach, Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth POETRY
  IMAGE science mission public outreach
• Radio and Plasma Wave Tutorials
  University of Iowa
  tutorials on space plasmas, emphasis on plasma waves
  
• Space Physics Textbook
  University of Oulu, Sweden
  covers space plasmas and space physics generally
  
• Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Earth's space environment, magnetosphere, space plasmas, resources page
• History of Geomagnetism, from 'De Magnete' to the magnetosphere
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  400th anniversary of Gilbert's 'De Magnete'; Earth as a giant magnet
  
• Space Environment Primer
  NOAA Space Environment Center
  primer, solar-terrestrial glossary, Yohkoh solar movies
  
• Public Connection Digital Museum
  Rice University
  The Public Connection digital museum; point-and-click earth and space science programs, "ask the scientist" Cu-SeeMe videoconferences, planetarium shows, online Challenger Center simulations
  
• Radio JOVE - for secondary school students
  NASA Planetary Radio Astronomy
  Planetary Radio Astronomy Education project - involves secondary school students in collecting and analyzing observations of natural radio emissions of the planet Jupiter and the Sun.
  
• Space Physics Radio Experiments INSPIRE
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Interaction NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments (INSPIRE)
  brings the excitement of observing natural and manmade radio waves in the audio region to high schools, covers lightning, radio wave propagation, ionospheric plasmas
  
• From Stargazers to Starships
  NASA Goddard; on spaceflight & spacecraft
  sister site to David Stern's "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere"
  - spaceflight and spacecraft including section on ion rockets.
• Space Image Libraries
  Oklahoma State University and NASA, Aerospace Education Services Program
  Oklahoma State University Space Image Libraries
  
• Photo Gallery
  NASA National Space Science Data Center
  Extensive space science image collection
  
• American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), Cambridge, MA
  Variable star work including the Sun; educational material on Sunspot Counting, Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SIDs), magnetometers, and Hands on Astrophysics
• Comet Images
  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• International Space Physics Education Consortium (ISPEC)
  virtual learning center, missions, resources
  

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Technology and Special Interest

• Bell Jar
  American Vacuum Society
  vacuum technique and applications
  for everyone
  
• Ball Lightning
• Commercial Plasma Science and Engineering
  Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  Plasma Science and Applications Committee
  tutorials, publications, companies,
  research groups, jobs
  

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