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Engineer Your Life: A guide to engineering careers for high school girls! Imagine what life would be like without pollution controls to preserve the environment, life-saving medical equipment, or low-cost building materials for fighting global poverty. All this takes engineering. In very real and concrete ways, women who become engineers save lives, prevent disease, reduce poverty, and protect our planet. Dream Big. Love what you do.  Become an engineer: http://www.engineeryourlife.org/

American Meterorlogical Society Career Guide: A career guide for the atmospheric sciences: http://www.ametsoc.org/atmoscareers/

American Meterorlogical Society: A booklet entitled "Careers in Atmospheric Research and Applied Meteorology": http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/careers.html

Bioworks U: A fun interactive site with information and games about careers in biotechnology and health care: http://bioworksu.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information Site: Select an interest and you will be shown a selection of various career options: http://www.bls.gov/k12/index.htm

Career OneStop: A website with a wealth of information about almost every career under the sun: http://www.careeronestop.org/

The Career Project: This website is a compilation of interviews of professionals in many fields about their jobs. They expose what they love, what they hate, and why they do what they do for a living: http://www.thecareerproject.org/bank.aspx

American Chemical Society Career Page: Learn about careers in chemistry: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=1188&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=1060bbd4-29d5-4b2f-9ba5-0c0d85c9e4d2

Discover Nursing: With a nursing degree, you can shape your career as you go, taking the opportunities that fit you best. Learn about some specialties available in a variety of settings and environments: http://www.discovernursing.com/nursing-careers

Construct My Future: Information for students, parents & teachers about careers in construction. Provides career overviews, a database of education programs, scholarship information and more: http://www.constructmyfuture.com/Choose.asp

Dream It - Do It: A career exploration site that focuses on the many paths available in manufacturing and other areas: http://www.dreamit-doit.com/

Life Science Career Alliance: Information for students on careers in the health care and bioscience fields: http://www.lscalliance.org/student?role=student

Southwest Fisheries Science Center: A guide about how to achieve a career in Marine Biology: http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?id=54

Mathematical Association of America: Learn more about careers in mathematics, get tips on how to succeed in math, and read about math in real life: http://www.maa.org/careers/

Sea Grant Marine Careers: Marinecareers.net will introduce you to a wide range of marine career fields and to people working in those fields. In addition, it will give those men and women a chance to tell you what they like and dislike about their careers, what they see for the future in their fields, and much more. This site also provides you with some experts' views on what the future holds for marine science careers: http://www.marinecareers.net/

Occupational Outlook Quarterly: Read about the latest news about up-and-coming careers; browse the archives for articles on to discover the fascinating career information in their past issues: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/archive.htm

NOAA OceanAGE: Ocean Careers to Inspire Another Generation of Explorers. : OceanAGE Careers invites students to interact with the talented people who explore our ocean planet. From underwater pilots to research scientists, these marine explorers provide students with first-hand knowledge of exciting careers through live interviews, profiles, and mission logs: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/#schedule

PA Career Zone: Explore careers in the major industries in Pennsylvania. Match yourself to a career with a personality test and watch videos explaining each job: http://www.pacareerzone.com/home.jsf

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center: An ever-expanding resource for anyone interested in exploring career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and healthcare: http://www.careercornerstone.org/

Wet Feet: Learn about what it's like to work in different industries, how to look for a job, job interview tips and more: http://www.wetfeet.com

What Can You Do With a Major In...: A list from the Career Services department of Ithaca College, featuring information about dozens of majors and likely career paths for each major: http://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/careers/docs/WCYDWAMI/

Ahead of the Curve Careers: A US News & World Report that talks about the jobs that exist today that are expected to be among the fastest growing careers in the future: http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/04/ahead-of-the-curve-careers-2008.html

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