SOME USEFUL EXTERNAL LINKS

External links arranged by topic in the //HyperTextBooks//^© for various courses:

Resource Conservation //HyperTextBook//^©

Physical Geology //HyperTextBook//^©

Meteorology and Climate //HyperTextBook//^©

World Regional Geography //HyperTextBook//^©

General guides to Geography resources are at the Geosource. For Wisconsin materials go HERE.

GEOGRAPHY-GEOLOGY HOMEPAGE

CLIMATE AND WEATHER

See MLG100 //HyperTextBook//^© for full compilation by topic. Also, the "education" section on this page has some additional links to educational materials.
National Weather Service, Weather Information Superhighway. Links to government agency, university and private servers related to weather and climate: everything under one roof!
Mid-West weather. Maps, NEXRAD etc. from NWS Milwaukee: covers the upper Mid-West.
The Weather Channel
Wisconsin city weather selector
Some useful university weather servers: Ohio State, Purdue, Illinois, Michigan
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: this site provides access to information from government agencies involved in work in the oceanographic and atmospheric sciences.
Climate data for cities across the world.
Some sources for information on specific global change topics include:

EDUCATION/QUIZZES

General:

University of Texas World Lecture Hall

Environmental Education:

National Public Radio Archives. Real Audio files of past Science Friday discussions on a large variety of environmental and other scientific topics.
Science and the Environment: an on-line review of recent articles
World Resources Institute Environmental Education
The Globe Program: International Environmental Science and Education Partnership
Great Lakes Education links
Earth Observing System Education
EPA student and teacher resources
US Energy Overview
Environmental education tutorials to download
Educational software to download from Virginia Tech.
Globes, maps and more globes to download
Compare these two views of global warming facts:

Environmental Defense Fund vs. Alliance for America

Earth Sciences (geology, meterology etc.):

Earth Sciences Newsletter ("The Why Files")
The Virtual Earth: A comprehensive guide to Earth Science links on the WWW.
Web Resources for Geomorphologists (from Miami-Ohio U.)
Earth Systems Education
USGS Learning Web
A Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology Extensive links to topics typically found in any laboratory course (produced by the American Geological Institute and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
USGS Plate Tectonics textbook
Geosciences instructional material
Geology classroom demonstrations
Locate an earthquake tutorial
Best Management Practices for Soil Erosion. A hypertext guidebook from Purdue University.
K-12 Science links
Online guide to meteorology
Weather education links from NWS Milwaukee
Instructional materials in climatology

On-line quizzes:

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

On-line publications, audio:

National Public Radio Archives. Real Audio files of past Science Friday discussions on a large variety of environmental and other scientific topics.
Consequences: the nature and implications of environmental change (a refereed journal)
Science and the environment An on-line guide to recent articles and headlines

Search sites, link sites:

UCI/NSF Conservation Hypertext Book
Environmental information, organizations
More environmental links
Earth Science Information Network
Natural Resources Research Information Pages (links to many orgs. and agencies, world-wide).
Linkages: a multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers.
Sustainable development links
WWWVirtual Library on Environment
Environmental Law Library and Links, Indiana University Law School
G7 nations environmental reference library
The European Environment Agency

Government agencies (see GEO350 //HyperTextBook//^© page for full compilation by topic):

Environmental Organizations:

Some friendly ....

Some not-so-friendly ....

Channel 4

The Wise Use Movement:

GEOLOGY

U.S. Geological Survey Homepage
GeoGuide (comprehensive Earth Science links)
Volcanoes:

Michigan Tech. Volcano Page
USGS volcano observatories and other links
Volcano World
World Wide Volcanism links (NASA: includes hazards and comprehensive links to observatories and researchers)

Earthquakes:

Virtual fieldtrips:

Education:

Digital Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Worth Publishers geologylink
See also Earth Science Education Links
The Virtual Earth: A comprehensive guide to Earth Science links on the WWW.
A Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology Extensive links to topics typically found in any laboratory course (produced by the American Geological Institute and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
USGS Plate Tectonics textbook
Web Resources for Geomorphologists (from Miami-Ohio U.)
Earth Science resources from University of North Carolina
Global Dynamics: links
Geologic time scale
University of California @ Berkeley Museum of Paleontology

POPULATION

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Some general sites:

Cultural information on many countries and regions
World Factbook '95
Vital statistics on countries
The Earth Times (virtual newspaper)

Specific regions:

Africa

African Studies (U.Penn.)
Africa: The online intelligence project
Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford)
The Earth Times Africa Section

Asia

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