GEOGRAPHY & EARTH SCIENCE LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• 50 States: Links to a wide variety of state information by Ray Weber.
• AGSC: The American Geographical Society Library Collection.
• Alpine Glacial Glossary: The Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms by Karen A. Lemke, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and The Virtual Geography Department Project.
• AMCSD: American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database.
• Amrivers: A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring America's rivers.
• Atlapedia Online: Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
• Atlas of Rocks, Minerals, and Textures: This web page was constructed to aid undergraduate instruction at the Geology Department of the University of North Carolina.
• Atmos: UIUC's Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
• AWMC: The Ancient World Mapping Center promotes cartography, historical geography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach activities.
• CCRC: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing.
• Climate Analysis Branch: Climate Analysis Branch aimed at developing the ability to predict important climate variations.
• Cold Regions Bibliographic Project: The Cold Regions Bibliography Project includes the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology and the Antarctic Bibliography.
• Cpluhna: Canyons, Cultures, and Environmental Change: the Colorado Plateau.
• DLESE: DLESE is the Digital Library for Earth System Education, a geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system and is funded by the National Science Foundation.
• Geodata.gov: A web-based portal for one-stop access to maps and geographic data.
• GeoHive: Global Statistics is a collection of tables and graphs providing a statistical look at countries, their population, area, capital, main cities, etc.
• Geoid: GEOID -- Your highway to DIGITAL EARTH at Cornell University.
• Digital Earth: GeoWeb: The GeoWeb infrastructure provides an open, global, and scalable infrastructure for rapidly discovering information on the Internet associated with a specific latitude/longitude location.
• Earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Website with information on worldwide earthquake activity, earthquake science, and earthquake hazard reduction.
• EART: Earth Sciences & Map Library from Berkeley.
• EROS: The Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Mapping Division.
• Gazetteer: U.S. Gazetteer with 1990 census information.
• Geographic links: Geographic links from The American Geographical Society Collection Library.
• Geo-Guide: The Geo-Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites in earth sciences, geography and mining maintained in cooperation by the Goettingen State and University Library and the University Library "Georgius Agricola" Freiberg
• GeoNames: Canada's Geographical Names.
• Getty Thesaurus: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, searchable.
• GNIS: Geographic Names Information System, information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States, U.S. Territories, and Anarctica.
• Historical Maps Online: The intent of the Historical Maps Online project is to publish electronically the images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory.
• How Volcanoes Work: This website is an educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes and is sponsored by NASA under the auspices of Project ALERT.
• The hydrogeologist: Earth science resources and links.
• Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology - Geography: The Intute Geography Gateway provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet.
• Land maps: Global land environments since the last interglacial.
• LANIC: The Latin American Network Information Center.
• Map Collections: American Memory: The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress.
• Map History: History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject.
• Maps of Africa: 16th - 20th Century Maps of Africa.
• National Atlas: National Atlas of the United States from The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
• National Geographic: Online magazine.
• NEIC: National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, Denver.
• National Geographic: Center for Sustainable Destinations: Geotourism is defined as tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place—its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and the well-being of its residents.
• Nice Geography: Nice Geography, an index of sites from the Universiteit Utrecht.
• NODC: The National Oceanographic Data Center archives.
• OceanPortal: A directory of ocean data and Web sites developed and maintained by the International Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.
• Oddens Bookmarks: The fascinating world of maps and mapping.
• Origins Antartica: Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole.
• Paleo: the NOAA Paleo perspective on global warming.
• Paleomap Project: PALEOMAP Project illustrating the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Online maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library of the University of Texas at Austin.
• The Power of Place: The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century teaches the geographic skills and concepts that are necessary to understand the world.
• Realms of Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society.
• Plansus: Study of United States's place names.
• Portals to the World: Portals to the World from the Library of Congress.
• SPNS: Scottish Place Names Society.
• Structural Geology on the Web: This is a collection of hypertext links to assorted structural geology and tectonics resources available on the world-wide web that was developed originally by Steven Schimmrich while a graduate student at the University of Illinois.
• Tiger: TIGER Map Surfer, sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, a resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of locations within the United States, using public geographic data.
• Travel Information: Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. State Department.
• UN Atlas of the Oceans: The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability.
• USGS: The U.S. Geological Survey Library.
• U. S. Census Maps: U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division Cartographic Operations Branch.
• VGP: The virtual Geoscience Professor.
• The World of Maps: A Gateway for maps and mapping.

Links last verified and updated 11/14/2008.

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