Web Watch

http://www.granular.org

Doctoral student Sébastien Dartevelle, who studies physical volcanology at Michigan Technical University, curates the Web site of the Granular Volcano Group. The site seeks to explain and promote the understanding of granular processes, fluid dynamics, supercomputer modeling, and grain-size analysis as applied to volcanology, geophysics, and physics.

http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/women/iupap.htm

Through its numerous tables and quotations, the report Women Physicists Speak: The 2001 International Study of Women in Physics illustrates the experiences of women physicists around the world. The Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics put together the report for the working group on women in physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

http://www.iupac.org/publications/compendium

The IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology is published by Blackwell for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Its more than 7000 cross-references provide, according to IUPAC, the definitive guide to chemical terminology. The online version is freely accessible.

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Compiled by Charles Day