This is a work in progress - so please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for new links.
General Geography Physical Geography Human Geography California Geography
Ecology and Environmental Thought Cartography, Maps, and Imagery GIS
John Aubert's page of Geography links is swell!
About.com hosts this About Geography site with tons of good information.
This site, hosted by Galaxy, is a link to many other links.
The Virtual Geography Department has a lot of information, but finding it requires digging.
The US Geological Survey has it all - land, water, biological resources, mapping.
The World Lecture Hall has a great deal of good information, including classes, online.
The Discovery Channel's Earth Alert page has information on current events that span physical and human geography - earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, volcanos...
The American Association of Geographers is an important national geographic resource.
Yahoo! has a great collection of links to geographic and environmental magazines.
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Robert Christopherson's excellent Geosystems Physical Geography texts have a companion web site at Prentice-Hall.
I hope that you have been to my Weather Links page but if not, it is worth a look.
The Western Regional Climate Center has lots of good climate data.
The California Department of Water Resources is a good source of water data.
The U S Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has lots of climate change information. Check out their archive of 2d Monday Seminars.
Richard Robinson has assembled a subperb collection of links at his Geography Central site. Check out the virtual field trips section.
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Here is a link to an Ecological Footprint calculator.
Here are Population links suggested by my students.
The Official Web Site of the Tibetan Government in Exile has excellent information on Tibet and their struggle.
The Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library has lots of information regarding Tibet, its cultures, its religion, its language, its art...
The Ethnologue is a fascinating site for language information.
The US Census has a great site for population information, including world population estimates and population pyramids.
The Third World Traveller is a wealth of alternative information about the environment, media, economics, and politics.
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Sean Booth's Northern California Backcountry Pages are a great starting place for recreational information about local areas.
The University of California at Berkeley has assambled a great collection of info on California Habitats.
This site, devoted to Cascadia, is an interesting, alternative look at California. Well worth a good look!
The California Geographical Society is a great organization for students.
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Ecology and Environmental Thought
Here are links to Greenpeace, the controversial ecological organization. the Sierra Club's main, local, and student links, and the Earth Island Institute, founded by David Brower.
Committed to defending Earth, Earth First! has great information on their main site.
This is the home of Planet Drum, a bioregional organization.
This link is Julia "Butterfly" Hill's site about her tree sitting in the Headwaters Forest.
This Hemp information site has information about alternatives for paper, cloth, and food.
The Pure Food Campaign has information about rBGH, genetically modified organisms, and organic issures.
This site (in Sweden!) dedicated to the excellent, although controversial author Edward Abbey is worth checking out.
The Eco-Village Information Service Home Page has Earth-friendly urban ideas.
Another site devoted to rethinking urban ideas is the OneWorld Online Home Page.
The New Society Publishers are one of the best sources for bioregional books.
Enlightened information from the Union of Concerned Scientists is here.
The Worldwatch organization has information regarding many ecological issues.
Here are links about NAFTA and mp3s of Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva.
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Cartography, Maps, and Imagery
TopoZone will display topographic maps of anywhere in the US!
NOAA's GOES Operational Significant Event Imagery Server has really interesting satellite images.
Nasa's Visable Earth page has amazing images of Earth.
The SSEC also has more interesting satellite images, including full disk shots!
This is a great view of Earth from space, updated constantly, with many options. Just beautiful!
Microsoft's Terraserver will allow you to zoom in to maps and satellite images from around the world at remarkable resolution.
Yahoo's Maps will create maps and/or driving directions for you.
The US Census Bureau's TIGER files will create maps with up to 21 types of features.
The California Geographical Survey has access to premade and customizable maps from many data sets.
Trimble Navigation and Garmin are GPS companies with outstanding tutorials on their sites.
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Here is a page of links to GIS applications on the web
Of course, the starting point for GIS must be ESRI's site, since they are the world leaders in GIS software.
Questions ? comments? new links? broken links? Please e-mail me at thomsec at arc.losrios.edu.
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