Reference Research Guide - Geography

Location In Stacks

Range Subject
G1 - G922 Geography: General
G1000 - G3122 Atlases
GA101 - GA1776 Cartography
GB400 - GB649 Geomorphology, Landforms, Terrain
GB651 - GB2998 Hydrology
GC1 - GC1581 Oceanography
GF1 - GF900 Human Geography

Videos

Location Title
G128 .P69 1996 Power Of Place (13 double vols.)
GA130 .M36 1993 Maps And Map Making
GB1205 .R58 1998 Rivers & The Power Of Running Water

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

Location Title
G103.5 .W42 1988 New Geographical Dictionary
G115 .G5535 Larousse Encyclopedia of World Geography
GB10 .E53 1985 Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physical Geography
FG4 .D52 1994 Dictionary of Human Geography

Periodicals

Location Title
910.5 N21 National Geographic Library has: 1980-2001

 

Metasites

General

Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center • http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/

General Geographic Sites • http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html

Geographic Names Information System http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html

Geo Community: Portal for Geospatial Technologists • http://www.geocomm.com/

Geo data Information Sources • http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_geodata.html

Geo Net : Geographic Names Server • http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html

Geo Source: Geographies on the internet • http://www.library.uu.nl/geosource/

Geographical Information Systems & Maps • http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/us.asp

Guide to GIS Resources on the Internet • http://www.variacsystems.com/link.htm

How Far is It? • http://www.indo.com/distance/

Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web • http://homepages.udayton.edu/~koziolam/resminpet.html

Resources for Geographers • http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/resources/contents.htm

U.S. Department of the Interior; Bureau of Land Management • http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html

Virtual Geography Department • http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/contents.html

WWW Virtual Library: Earth Science • http://vlib.org/EarthScience

Climate

Global Change Data & Information System • http://gcrio.gcrio.org/gcdis.html

National Climatic Data Center • http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

National Snow & Ice Data Center • http://nsidc.org/

Earthquakes & Other Hazards

Global Volcanism Program • http://www.volcano.si.edu/

National Information Services for Earthquake Engineering • http://nisee.berkeley.edu/

National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program • http://nthmp.tsunami.gov/

Tsunami Research Center • http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/index.php

Tsunami Web Site • http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/index.html

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program • http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Maps

Color Landform Atlas of the United States • http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Digital Atlas of New York City • http://130.166.124.2/nypage1.html

Interactive Maps • http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html#interact

Map Machine by National Geographic • http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine

Maps and References • http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html#mapinfo

Library of Congress: Map Collections:1500-2003 • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

National Geologic Map Database • http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngmdb/ngm_catalog.ora.html

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe C.E.1 to 2000 • http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: UT-Austin • http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html

Weather maps & imagery • http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_weather.html

Water Resources

American Rivers • http://www.americanrivers.org/

NOAA’s National Oceanographic Service • http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

National Oceanographic Data Center • http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

ReefBase: GIS on Coral Reefs • http://www.reefbase.org/

Surf Your Watershed: Louisiana • http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/state.cfm?statepostal=LA

 

E-Journals

AMS Newsletter (American Meteorological Society) • http://www.ametsoc.org/newsltr/index.html

 

E-Texts

Alternate Dictionary of Remote Sensing • http://members.home.nl/wim.h.bakker/dictionary.html

Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in GIS,etc. • http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online • http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html

Glossary of Cartographic Terms • http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/glossary.html

GIS Dictionary • http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html

IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names 1998 • http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/IMA/ima98(01).pdf

USGS Water Related-Water Supply Papers Online • http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/

 

Online Research

Academic Search Complete • http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=a9h

Annual Review: Earth and Planetary Sciences • http://earth.AnnualReviews.org

GEOBASE. • http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=GEOBASE;FSIP

GeoRef. • http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=web&defaultdb=geh

Research Library Core • http://www.il.proquest.com/pqdauto

Wilson SelectPlus. • http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WilsonSelectPlus;FSIP

 

Associations

American Geological Institute • http://www.agiweb.org/index.html

American Geophysical Union • http://www.agu.org/

Association of American State Geologists • http://www.stategeologists.org/

Geological Society of America (GSA) • http://www.geosociety.org/

International Association of Geomorphologists • http://www.geomorph.org/gt/gtlink.html

Scholarly societies - Earth Sciences • http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/earthsci_soc.html

Seismological Society of America • http://www.seismosoc.org/index.php

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) • http://www.usgs.gov/

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