Links: DIRECTORY CPIE projects: AQUATIC BIOTA ID AQUATIC BIOTA LIST AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY MEASURING WQ STREAM ALGAE WATER QUALITY REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY CORAL REEF BIBLIOGRAPHY	The CPIE website is dedicated to providing links and information about natural environments on Central Pacific reefs and islands, with an emphasis on water quality and biology of fresh, brackish, and marine waters. We plan to provide some educational material and links to natural history web sites for the region. What is provided as unique will follow, for the most part, from ongoing and past projects at AECOS, Inc. and AECOS Consultants--useful we think to both serious aquatic biologists, as well as students and naturalists, young and old.
	Two current web projects attempt to address problems encountered by student and community groups interested in monitoring local watersheds. First, we are developing a tool (a dichotomous key) to identify aquatic organisms encountered in Hawaiian streams, ponds, and estuaries (including anchialine ponds and poikilohaline lagoons). Second, we are providing basic information on water quality parameters: essentially the "what and why" of measurements made in aquatic environments, with links to helpful material elsewhere on the Internet. We also support KO`OLAU NET, a community watershed web-ring project which attempts to utilize web technology to link diverse environmentally or culturally oriented community groups in our home district of Ko`olaupoko on the Central Pacific island of O`ahu.	Source of basic information and a very interesting project: an open encyclopedia ~ you can add or edit entries.

Natural History Links --	It is just a fact of the internet that links often "go bad." We are working to keep the links posted here valid, and this process is done a section at a time. We apologize if we have not recently reviewed the section you are interested in.
O C E A N S (oceanography & weather) I S L A N D S (geography, geology, & landform) ECOSYSTEMS (plants, animals, & ecology)	In the beginning..... ...there is planet Earth, third planet from the sun and largest of the four inner, rocky planets of this solar system. Unlike the outer "gas giants" (such as Jupiter), the "terrestrial" planets are small, rocky worlds with shallow atmospheres (except for airless Mercury). Only planet Earth has an abundance of liquid water -- and therein lies a critical difference....

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