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Internet Resources for Geography
Geography at the University of Delaware | Gateways: Good Starting Points for Geography | Weather and Climate Resources | Environmental Sciences Resources | Human Geography | Map Resources | Organizations | Additional Sites of Interest
Geography at the University of Delaware
- Department of Geography
- Climate Data for Delaware Recording Stations
- Data Resources
Research Data Management Services (RDMS) at the University of Delaware maintains a relatively comprehensive list of data available on the Internet and through their own data collection. Data are categorized as Earth Science, Meteorology/Climate, Remote Sensing, Social Science, Financial, Delaware Region, US Census, and Misc. Data Centers. - Office of the Delaware State Climatologist
- Synoptic Climatology Lab
Gateways: Good Starting Points for Geography
- Geography (About.com)
- Geo-Guide
An Internet subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in earth science, geography and mining. Resources are described and evaluated with a set of Dublin Core metadata. Created at Göttingen State and University Library. - GeoSource
Geosource is a collection of links to webpages with information in the subjects that are being taught and studied in the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht University, Netherlands. These are cartography, environmental science and policy studies, human geography, physical geography, and planning science. - Internet
Resources for Geography and Geology
A comprehensive page covering physical & human geography, cartography and GIS, career information, teaching & multimedia resources, environmental and world regional geography. Created by Michael Ritter, University of Wisconsin. - The
Virtual Geography Department
Internet Resources for geographers, maintained by Lance Christian and Kenneth Foote, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder. - eiNet.net: Geography
- USGS National Mapping Information
Weather and Climate Resources
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP)
- National Weather Service
- U.S. Historical Climatology Network
Environmental Sciences Resources
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A collection of resources sponsored by the federal government that includes information for students and teachers, concerned citizens, researchers and scientists, business and industry, etc. Directory type information is included for people, offices and labs, and data systems and software. There is also an EPA news section. - Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
- EarthTrends: The Environmental Information
Portal
A cooperative project of the World Resources Institute, the World Bank, the UN Environment Program, the UN Development Program and others that provides a wide array of environmental data and information. The material is grouped into broad topics: coastal and marine ecosystems; water resources and freshwater ecosystems; climate and atmosphere; population, health and human well-being; economics, business and the environment; energy and resources; biodiversity and protected areas; agriculture and food; forests and grasslands; and environmental
institutions and governance.
Human Geography
- City Population
High-tech city population database. Gives official population figures for thousands of cities, agglomerations, provinces and states around the world. There are interactive Java-based maps showing population sizes on mouseover action. Maps pop up when clicking on the number of a city in the lists. There is a special listing of cities with over 1 million population, which is also available for downloading in Excel format. By Thomas Brinkhoff. - Country Studies
- Human Rights Watch World Report 2005
Country-by-country descriptions of the state of human rights. - Governments on the WWW
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of July 2001. - IMF Staff Country Reports
Up-to-date information on the economic and financial situation in almost all countries of the world. - Official City Sites
Gateway to municipal sites in Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. By Tamie and Kevin Hyde. - Population Index
The Index covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations. Input is derived from original publications including monographs, journal articles, other serial publications, working papers, doctoral dissertations, machine-readable data files, and relevant acquisitions lists and bibliographies. - Portals to the
World: Links to Electronic Resources Around the World
Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories (General Resources Business, Commerce, Economy, Culture, Education, etc.). The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. - ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which provides information on natural and man-made disasters. Under the caption "complex emergencies" one can find information on countries with ongoing humanitarian stress (e.g. Balkans, Liberia, North Korea, Sierra Leone, Sudan).
Map Resources
- Cartographic Information, Maps, and Spatial Data: A Guide to Internet Resources
- MapTech Mapserver
Access to over 60,000 topographic maps, nautical charts, aeronautical charts, and aerial and satellite photographs covering the United States. - National Geologic Map Database
- Oddens's Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
- Subway Navigator
This online program helps you find your journey via public transport in over 60 cities around the world, 10 of which are situated in the US.
Organizations
- The Association of American Geographers (AAG)
- The National Science Foundation (NSF)
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Additional Sites of Interest
- Landscape Ecology & Biogeography
- EROS Data Center
Earth Resources Observation Systems, U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Information: This USGS repository for Remote Sensing data maintains the Global Land Information System (GLIS), containing information about digital data available from USGS and other sources. It is especially useful for graphically browsing and ordering satellite imagery.
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