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The American Journal of Science is devoted to geology and related sciences and publishes articles from around the world presenting results of major research from all earth sciences. Coverage:
1860-
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AMNH scientific publications disseminate the results of laboratory investigations and fieldwork conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology. This collection includes full-text access to current and back issues of AMNH scientific series. Coverage:
Various Dates
3.
Climate CoLabfrom
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
FREE ACCESS
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The goal of the Climate CoLab is to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address global climate change. Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence has developed this crowdsourcing platform where citizens work with experts and each other to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change. Anyone can join the Climate CoLab community and participate. In addition to members of the general public, the community includes over 200 experts on climate change and related topics who serve as Advisors, Judges, and Fellows. Community members are invited to submit and comment on proposals outlining ideas for what they think should be done about climate change. As of May 2015, over 1,000 proposals have been submitted.
Winning teams in previous years presented their ideas in briefings at the United Nations in New York and the US Congress in Washington, DC. In 2013 and 2014, winners met with relevant experts and potential implementers at the MIT Climate CoLab Conferences, each with over 800 attendees (in person and online). 2015 Climate CoLab winners will receive a special invitation to attend selected sessions at MIT's Solve conference, free of charge. At this gathering, many of the world's leading technologists, philanthropists, business leaders, policy makers, and social change agents will be challenged to help solve the most difficult questions of our time. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Natural History Museum of Verona carries out extensive scientific research whose results are presented in numerous publications of which the Museum is editor. The publishing activity includes both serials (Bulletins, Memoirs, Studies of Bolca deposits) and monographs, as well as catalogs of exhibitions, educational guides and information materials of various kinds. Included are: Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 1st and 2nd series; Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona; and Studi Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca al tre Pubblicazioni Allegati. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Copernicus Publications, a publisher of scientific literature based in Göttingen, Germany, has been publishing highly reputable peer-reviewed open access journals since 2001. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, Copernicus is particularly known as the largest open access publisher in the Geosciences. Other topics include Civil engineering, Life sciences, Math, Data, Informatics, and Humanities. Currently Copernicus publishes over 53 peer-reviewed open access scientific journals. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Current Contents Connect® is a current awareness database that provides easy Web access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals, as well as from more than 7,000 relevant, evaluated websites. Areas covered include:
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Darwin Online is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Charles Darwin ever published. It is probably the most extensive scholarly website devoted to any historical figure. This website contains over 212,000 pages of searchable text and 220,000 electronic images, at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. The majority of these have been edited and annotated here for the first time with more than 4,900 original editorial notes. The pages of documents amount to tens of thousands of additional pages of works by Darwin and others. This website also provides the largest collection of Darwin's private papers and manuscripts ever published: c. 20,000 items across c. 100,000 images.
Contents of Darwin Online include:
Darwin's Complete Publications (Books, Articles, Published Letters, Published Manuscripts)
Darwin's Private Papers & Manuscripts
Supplementary (The Beagle Library, Reviews & Responses, Beagle specimens, Obituaries & Recollections, Works about Darwin)
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The Digital Scholarship Lab develops innovative digital humanities projects that contribute to research and teaching at and beyond the University of Richmond. It seeks to reach a wide audience by developing projects that integrate interpretation in the humanities and social sciences with innovations in new media. Map related projects include "Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States," "Secession: Virginia and the Crisis of Union," "Hidden Patterns of the Civil War," "Visualizing Emancipation: a map of slavery’s end during the American Civil War," "Redlining Richmond: maps and lists of all of the assessment data collected for Richmond," "United States Politics, 1840 -2008," "Voting America," and "Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining." Coverage:
Various dates
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The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) is the Office of Scientific and Technical Information's (OSTI) search tool for finding DOE-funded, publicly available, scientific data submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations funded by the Department. DDE includes data Project, data Collection, and individual Dataset records.
A data Project is a scientific research group, data center, user facility, or other DOE-funded endeavor that is creating research data. A data Collection is a package of related datasets with a DOI for the entire collection. A Dataset is a single instance of data whose boundaries have been defined by the data submitter, with a DOI associated. The data themselves reside at national laboratories, data centers, user facilities, colleges and universities, or other websites. Use Search functionalities to discover publicly available, DOE-funded data resources. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Explorateur cartographiqe is a WMS map, using satellite images as the base map. Available layers include: toponyms, geodesy, public infrastructure, administrative boundaries on land and at sea, streets, cadastre, recreational drone areas, mines, hydrogeography, flood areas, water protection areas, air protection areas, forest protection areas, environmental zones of interest, geomorphology, classified lagoons, geology, tsunami hazards, meteorological stations, wind. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Freely Accessible Geography & Maps Online Resourcesfrom
Library of Congress
FREE ACCESS
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A collection of publicly available geography & maps online resources selected by Library of Congress staff. Coverage:
Various dates
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Freely Accessible Sanborn Maps Onlinefrom
Sanborn Map Company
FREE ACCESS
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As an American publisher of historical and current maps of US cities and towns, the Sanborn Map Company has been a driving influence in the mapping industry since it started in 1866. Sanborn maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United States. The maps include detailed information regarding town and building data in approximately 12,000 US towns and cities from 1867 to 2007. They are a highly useful resource for historical research, planning, preservation and restoration, genealogical research, sociological studies, and research of urban geography. Select Sanborn maps of Canada (British Columbia), Cuba and Mexico are also included.
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This map and associated digital databases are the result of compilation and interpretation of published and unpublished 1:250,000-scale and limited 1:500,000- to 1:63,360-scale maps. Covering the entire state of Alaska, it reflects more than a century of work by a host of geologists and almost two decades of compilation work. There are two versions of the map: a detailed digital version, and a simplified, “generalized” map for print. The map units described in the accompanying pamphlet reflect those of the detailed digital map. At the end of each unit description, the generalized map unit for that unit is listed.
Compilation of this map began in September 1996, using available 1:250,000-scale data to compile and release a regional map of central Alaska (Wilson and others, 1998). An ongoing iterative process was used to describe and correlate individual geologic units to produce the units for this statewide map and its interim products—a series of regional geologic map compilations—which were released as the process continued (in the references cited in the pamphlet that are shown with an *). As additional geologic data were acquired, previously released data, correlations, and interpretations were updated as needed. Compilation of this map was complex, because the original source maps were made by different generations of geologists, mapping with very different ideas. Several of the older maps were completed before the concepts of accreted (suspect) terranes or even plate tectonics existed. On the other hand, some of the more recent maps were so governed by terrane analysis that conventional stratigraphic nomenclature was not used or is obscured. We adopted a traditional stratigraphic approach and avoided use of the sometimes controversial and commonly inconsistently defined or applied terrane terminology. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a global professional society with a growing membership of more than 26,000 individuals in 115 countries. The Society unites thousands of earth scientists from every corner of the globe in a common purpose to study the mysteries of our planet (and beyond) and share scientific findings. Library patrons can access GSA Books, which include the following:
Special Papers, 1934-2017: Published state-of-the-art treatments of rapidly evolving subjects;
Memoirs, 1937-2017: Published results of long-term studies of particular subjects, likely to remain the authoritative references for a number of years;
Field Guides, 1999-2017: Written for field trips held at GSA and other organizations’ meetings, illustrated with maps and road logs;
Reviews in Engineering Geology, 1962-2017: Case studies, summaries of geological theory, and reports on hazard assessment techniques and remediation; approved by GSA’s Environmental and Engineering Geology Division.
Coverage:
1934-2017
Library of Congress patrons have access only to GSA Books, not to GSA Journals.
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The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 100,000 references a year. The database contains over 3.8 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. You can gain access to this vast amount of information through searching on the worldwide web, online, or on GeoRef CDs.
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1666 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.
The Open-Access Journals / Series list is divided into five sections:
Geological Journals / Series
Related Disciplines and/or General Science Journals
Newsletters (must contain formal articles to appear in GeoRef)
Geological Survey Publications / Government Agencies
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A comprehensive Internet resource for research across the geosciences, built on a database of ebooks and peer-reviewed journals and integrated with GeoRef. GSW is a registered non-profit organization. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The following Open Access digital maps have been published by the Geological Society of America under the Digital Maps and Charts series. They comprise peer-reviewed maps, sections, and charts of significant scientific interest in any research field in geology and may include text and figures. Coverage:
Various Dates
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IUGG, a non-governmental, scientific organization with eight semi-autonomous associations, has been dedicated since 1919 to the international promotion and coordination of scientific studies of Earth (physical, chemical, and mathematical) and its environment in space. These studies include the shape of the Earth, its gravitational and magnetic fields, the dynamics of the Earth as a whole and of its component parts, the Earth's internal structure, composition and tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation, the hydrological cycle including snow and ice, all aspects of the oceans, the atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations, and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets. With both English and French languages are available, the website offers free access to many of IUGG’s publications, including newsletters, annual reports, research reports, the institution's archives and et al. Free publications from IUGG’s member associations are also available from this website. Coverage:
Various dates
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The Jefferson Weather & Climate Records is a digital historical documentary edition of Thomas Jefferson’s 50-year compilation (1776-1826) of meteorological observations, sometimes expanded to include information on local ecology and seasonal patterns; and supplemented by related materials found elsewhere in Jefferson’s personal papers. Registering this type of scientific data across an extended period was an uncommon undertaking in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century North America. The synthesis and online presentation of these materials, a joint project of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University (PTJ) and the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia (CDE), has transformed them from a heterogeneous assemblage of manuscript notations to a coherent digital archive that can be readily accessed, understood, and interpreted for a notable range of research investigations, from scientific and cultural history to presidential biography to the urgent contemporary project of tracing the historical development of climate change. Coverage:
1776-1826
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The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (JSWC) is a multidisciplinary journal of natural resource conservation research, practice, policy, and perspectives. The journal has two sections: the A Section contains various departments and features, and the Research Section contains peer-reviewed research papers. The journal is published by the Soil and Water Conservation Society, a nonprofit scientific and professional organization that fosters the science and art of natural resource management to achieve sustainability. The Society's members promote and practice an ethic that recognizes the interdependence of people and their environment. Coverage:
1981 to present
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Moscow University Press (Vestnik MGU in Russian) published by the most prominent academic institution in Russia: Moscow State University, offers 26 different topics on all important areas of scholarly knowledge ranging from mathematics and chemistry to economy, law and history. The database also contains two correlating journals: The Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Nature Studies: Biology and The Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Nature Studies: Geology. The Moscow University Press database provides a wealth of research materials to scholars in various areas of knowledge, especially working in the cross-disciplinary fields and studying the latest scientific developments in Russia. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The National Development Council site provides access to publications on Economics, Statistics, Climate Change, and Spatial Development. Coverage:
Various Dates
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National Geographic magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational and scientific organizations. Recognized for some of the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world, this award-winning, iconic magazine is famous for providing unparalleled, in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology and the environment.
Featuring the complete archive of the magazine to the mid 1990s, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface. Coverage:
1888-1994
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Formerly known as SciTech Connect, the newly launched by Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) incorporates the contents of DOE’s two most popular databases: Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database, and employs an innovative semantic search tool enabling scientists, researchers and the scientifically-attentive public to retrieve more relevant information. SciTech Connect contains over sixty-five years of energy-related citations created and/or collected by OSTI. It also includes full-text DOE sponsored STI reports, technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information sponsored by DOE through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today. Collections from the early years represent a comprehensive worldwide collection of nuclear science literature. In addition to reports from the Atomic Energy Commission and other U.S. government agencies, this collection includes numerous non-governmental publications, as well as foreign and foreign language material. In the mid-1970s, the scope of the database expanded to cover all forms of energy-related scientific and technical information. The data site continues to grow as new scientific and technical information resulting from DOE research becomes available. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The mission of OurEnergyPolicy.org is to facilitate substantive, responsible dialogue on energy policy issues, and provide dialogue as a resource for the American public, policymakers, and the media. OEP also serves as a one-stop resource hub for all things energy policy, and includes a free Resource Library, aggregated Energy Headlines, national Energy Events Calendar and more. OEP does not have or endorse any specific political, programmatic, policy, or technological agendas. It rather represents every viewpoint from every sector – industry, academia, government, law, finance, non-profit organizations, think tanks, and more. The topics cover the energy landscape, facilitating substantive discourse on alternative fuels (solar, wind, etc.), oil and gas, nuclear, biofuels, electric vehicles, renewables, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, energy security, environment, hydropower, natural gas, legislation and regulation, technology and many others.
The Energy Resource Library aggregates and indexes more than 4,000 publicly available reports, white papers, studies, journal articles, and other material, and is continually expanding. Coverage:
Various Dates
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People's Republic of China Geological Mapsfrom
East View Geospatial
ON-SITE ONLY
Description:
1:200,000 scale geological maps of China. Coverage:
Various Dates
Available in the Geography & Map Reading Room only.
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The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a member of the Leibniz Association, was founded in 1992 and receives funding primarily from the German government and from European Union grant programmes. At PIK, researchers in the natural and social sciences from all over the world work closely together to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems. Researchers examine the earth system's capacity for withstanding human interventions and devise strategies and options for a sustainable development of humankind and nature. Interdisciplinary and solution-oriented approaches are a distinctive characteristic of the institute. Research at PIK is organized in four Research Domains: Earth System Analysis, Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, Sustainable Solutions, and Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods. Research publications are searchable in the publications database and include articles, books, conference papers, lectures, reports, theses, as well as the series PIK Reports. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The GeoRef database, established in 1966 by the American GeoSciences Institute (AGI), provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year. The database contains over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.
To maintain the database, GeoRef editor/indexers regularly scan more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. They record the bibliographic data for each document and assign index terms to describe it. Each month between 4,000 and 7,000 new references are added to the database.
A subscription to the GeoRef database also includes access to the GeoRef In Process database (so both databases can be searched at once) and a link to the GeoRef Preview database on the AGI web site. Coverage:
1693 - current
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Sciencedomain International provides high-quality, peer reviewed, open access international journals in various sectors of science, technology and medicine. Areas covered include: Biological Science; Geological Science; Medical Science; Physical Science; and Social Science. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline. Topics covered include: •Biology •Earth sciences •Environmental studies •Medical sciences •Agriculture •Fish and fisheries •Education •Geography •Veterinary science •Food and food industries •Pharmacy and pharmacology •Meteorology •Public health and safety •Water resources •Conservation •Forests and forestry •Materials science •Engineered materials •Mechanical engineering •Civil engineering •Environmental engineering •Earthquake engineering •New technologies in engineering •Aerospace •Computer and information systems •Telecommunications •Electronics •Physics. Coverage:
1946 - current
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SpringerOpen, launched in June 2010, includes Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science. In August 2012, due to the growing demand for open access and the success of our SpringerOpen journals, the collection was expanded to include open access books. Published under the SpringerOpen brand the books complement the established open access journal portfolio. SpringerOpen journals and books are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high-level peer review, author and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work.
The journals and books cover subject areas such as Biomedicine, Business and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Dentistry, Earth Sciences, Economics, Education, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Geography, History, Law, Life Sciences, Linguistics, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Public Health, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Sciences, Statistics.
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TIGER Geodatabases are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER database for use with Esri’s ArcGIS. However, Open Source GIS such as QGIS also support the Geodatabase format. The geodatabases contain national coverage (for geographic boundaries or features) or state coverage (boundaries within state).
These files do not include demographic data, but they contain geographic entity codes that can be linked to the Census Bureau’s demographic data, available on American FactFinder.
See the documentation for the description of geographic boundaries and features contained in each geodatabase. Further details of the geographic boundaries and features can be found in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles technical documentation. These files will be released up to two times a year. Coverage:
2013-2018
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The USGS is the science provider of choice in accessing the information and understanding to help resolve complex natural resource problems across the Nation and around the world. USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.
This site also includes many maps ranging from detailed local areas to the world. In 2014, USGS combined the National Atlas of the United States with the The National Map in ordr to streamline access to maps, data and information from the USGS National Geospatial Program (NGP). The National Map is a collaborative effort among the USGS and other Federal, State, and local partners to improve and deliver topographic information for the Nation. It has many uses ranging from recreation to scientific analysis to emergency response. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The mission of the University of Arizona Institutional Repository (UAiR) is to collect, preserve and share the intellectual output of the faculty, staff and students of the University of Arizona. Included are image, map, and document collections dealing with Arizona and the Southwest, the DRSW and Biofile data resources of the Arizona State Museum, the digital archives of the Journal of Range Management and Rangelands, as well as the subscription material and archives of Meteoritics and Planetary Science and Radiocarbon. Digital collections at the Center for Creative Photography consist of the archives of noted twentieth-century photographers, among them Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations consisting of 191 Member States and Territories (on 1 January 2013). It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources. The WMO Library is responsible for collecting around the world relevant documents dealing with various aspects of meteorology or related fields, with its database available online, the library also provides free E-Journals as well as E-Annual Reports including Technical reports and reports series that offers a selection of specialized resources in the field. Finally, the Websites' Search selected by the librarian allows users to find more about Meteorology and related fields. Coverage:
Various Dates