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8 dangerous volcanoes around the world:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25499980/
3D Geology Maps:
www.3dgeomaps.com
A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk:
www.nytimes.com
ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information:
www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/
Acid Rain 2005:
www.acidrain2005.cz
Acid Rain Students' Site:
www.epa.gov/acidrain/site_students/
AirHead - Air Pollution Awareness:
www.airhead.org
Alaska Volcano Observatory:
www.avo.alaska.edu/avo4/
Alfred Russel Wallace:
www.wku.edu/~smithch/
All the World's Maps:
www.embassyworld.com/maps/
Alpine Glacial Landforms:
www.uwsp.edu/geo/
Antarctic Glaciers Accelerating:
www.nsidc.org/news/press/
Antarctic Journal:
webdirectory.com/antarctic/
Antarctic Virtual Tour:
astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/
Antarctica (Computerworld):
antarctica.computerworld.com
Aquatic Network:
www.aquanet.com
Atlas of Canada - Learning Resources:
atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learning_resources/
Atlas of the Oceans:
www.oceansatlas.org
Australia's Distinctive Landscape:
www.auslig.gov.au/facts/
Backyard Weather Station:
familyeducation.com
Before, After, Two Years after Katrina:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20364536/?gt1=10252
Bering Climate:
www.beringclimate.noaa.gov
Big Dig:
www.bigdig.com
Big Dig Underground Tour:
www.publicbroadcasting.net
Bridging the Watershed:
www.bridgingthewatershed.org
Britons leading the pack towards cycling cities:
www.abc.net.au/news/
Bureau of Meteorology:
www.bom.gov.au
Californian Dams Database:
elib.cs.berkeley.edu/dams/
Caltrans Journal:
www.dot.ca.gov
Canadian West:
www.archives.ca
Charters Towers Seismic Station:
aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/
China earthquake - Impact and aftermath (animated graphic):
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24583362/
China earthquakes mapped on Live Maps:
ditu.live.com
Climatic Research Unit:
www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/cru.htm
Climatological References:
k12.ocs.ou.edu
Clouds:
seaborg.nmu.edu/clouds/
Color Brewer:
www.personal.psu.edu
Cool Antarctica:
www.coolantarctica.com
Countries & Capitals:
www.capitals.com
Cryosphere:
nsidc.org/cryosphere/
Dam Design:
www.dur.ac.uk/~des0www4/cal/dams/
Denver Basin Project:
www.dmns.org/main/minisites/denverbasin/
Detroit through the years viewed on Live Maps:
detroit1976.naviciti.com
Digital Chart of World:
www,maproom.psu.edu
Digital Earth:
atlas.geo.cornell.edu/webmap/
Discover our Earth:
atlas.geo.cornell.edu/education/
Downbursts - Severe Localized Downdrafts:
ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu
Earth Resource System:
www.ersys.com
Earth Resources:
www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov
Earth Science Notes:
www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/
Earth Sciences & Map Library:
www.lib.berkeley.ed/EART/
Earth Science World:
www.earthscienceworld.org
Earth's Timeline:
www.msnbc.com
Earthquakes Theme Page:
www.cln.org
Energy Impacts of Hurricane Gustav:
www.gulfimpact.com
Essential Guide to Rocks:
www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/
EuroStat:
europe.eu.int
Exploring the Geography of Georgia – helpful tip to leverage UGC
:
virtualearth.spaces.live.com
Facts about Niagara Falls:
www.niagarafallslive.com
Finding Your Way with Map & Compass:
mac.usgs.gov
Fossil Fuels:
fossil.energy.gov/education/
Freak Waves:
www.pbs.org/wnet/savageseas/
Free Geography Tools:
freegeographytools.com
Free GIS Data:
data.geocomm.com
Fundamentals of Physical Geography:
www.physicalgeography.net
Future Tech - Urban Transport:
www.darkroastedblend.com
Gambling on where hurricanes will hit:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8631749/
Geo Communicator:
www.geocommunicator.org
Geo-data for San Francisco Bay:
badger.parl.com
Geo-Globe:
library.thinkquest.org/10157/
Geo-Images Project:
geogweb.berkeley.edu
Geoexplorer Geography Portal:
www.geoexplorer.co.uk
Geography About.com:
geography.about.com
Geography for Kids:
www.geography4kids.com
Geography Games:
www.geography-games.com
Geography IQ:
www.geographyiq.com
Geography Quiz - What's your Traveler IQ?:
virtualearth.spaces.live.com
Geography Top Activities:
www.quia.com/dir/geo/
Geography World:
members.aol.com/geographyworld/
Geoguide - Dams:
www.nationalgeographic.com
Geological mapping gets joined up:
news.bbc.co.uk
Geology of Sand Dunes:
www.nps.gov/whsa/
Geology of the Grand Canyon:
www.kaibab.org/geology/
Geology Web Links:
www.geologyone.com
Geomapping:
maps.geoportals.com
GeoNet:
www.geonet.org.nz
GEOnet Names Server (GNS):
earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html
Geoscience Australia:
www.agso.gov.au
GeoURL Location to URL Directory:
geourl.org
GIS.com - Guide to Geographic Information Systems:
www.gis.com
GIS Abbreviations:
www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/
GIS Education:
libraries.ucsd.edu/sage/
GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems:
gislounge.com
GISuser (Geospatial Information System User):
www.gisuser.com
Glacier Image Database:
tvl1.geo.uc.edu/ice/Image/
Global Change Master Directory:
gcmd.nasa.gov
Global Climate Change Student Info Guide:
www.ace.mmu.ac.uk
Google Maps:
maps.google.com
Goulburn Valley Area Map:
www.multimap.com
GPS Drawing:
www.gpsdrawing.com/info.htm
GPS Guide for Beginners:
gislounge.com/mobile-gis/gps/gps-guide-for-beginners/
GRASS GIS:
grass.itc.it
Guide to Earthquakes:
news.bbc.co.uk
How a Blast Furnace Works:
www.steel.org/learning/howmade/
How Asian tsunami's waves swept the globe:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9076807/
How to Find True North Without a Compass:
www.wikihow.com
Hurricane Hunters:
www.hurricanehunters.com
Hurricane Katrina - A Year to Remember:
www.katrina.com
Hurricane Katrina Archive:
www.nola.com/katrina/
Hurricane Katrina's Inundation of New Orleans:
www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf
Hurricane Rita on Virtual Earth:
poly9.viavirtualearth.com/poly9/msnbc-rita/
Hurricanes - Just for Kids:
www.ns.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/kids.html
Ice Ages:
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/
Iceberg:
oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/iceberg/
Imaging Everest:
imagingeverest.rgs.org
Interactive U.S. Map:
nationalatlas.gov
International Ground Water Model:
www.mines.edu/igwmc/
International Rivers Network:
www.irn.org
International Small-Hydro Atlas:
www.small-hydro.com
International Tsunami Information Center:
www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/
Internet Geography:
www.internetgeography.co.uk
Internet Glossary of Soil Science Terms:
www.soils.org/sssagloss/
Introduction to Physical Geography:
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems:
blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems - Flat Maps for a Round Planet:
msdn.microsoft.com
Jules Map Server:
jules.unavco.org
K-12 Weather Sites from Unidata:
my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/education/K12.html
Katrina's Devastation:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9107338/
Katrina Flyover - Before and After:
www.msnbc.msn.com/apps/ve/katrina.htm
Katrina Safe:
www.katrinasafe.com
Kola Superdeep Borehole:
www.damninteresting.com/?p=567
Lafayette Parish Louisiana Flood Plain Map on Live Maps:
www.lamappingproject.com
Lie of the Land:
www.bl.uk
Live Internet Seismic Server:
www.liss.org
Live Maps:
maps.live.com
Living Earth - Earth Images:
livingearth.com
Low Impact Development:
www.lowimpactdevelopment.org
Magma Mixing:
www.science.ubc.ca
Making Maps with MS Word:
www.virtualteacher.com.au/maps.html
Mapping Balloon Travel Patterns on Live Maps:
blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/
Mapping the China earthquake zone:
news.bbc.co.uk
Maps 101:
www.maps.com/learn/
Maps & Geography:
www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/
Maps & GIS:
infomine.ucr.edu
Maps that Teach:
www.yourchildlearns.com
Marble Bar Seismic Station:
aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/
Measuring Households Affected By Flooding Rivers:
blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/
Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes:
www.guardian.co.uk
Minerals & Metals:
www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/school/
Mississippi River Flood of 1927:
www.archive.org/details/mississippi_flood_1927
Mount St. Helens Eruption Movies:
www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/archive/eruptions.shtml
Mount St. Helens Satellite Imagery:
www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/hele-img.html
Mount St. Helens Teacher's Corner Online Library:
www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/education/teachers-corner/library/
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam:
www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Mount St. Helens Lets Off Steam:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6092368/
Multimap:
www.multimap.com
Mysteries of Twisters:
www.msnbc.com/news/745281.asp
My Water Supply:
www.mywatersupply.org
Learning - Geography N-Z
Narrogin Seismic Station:
National Geodetic Survey:
www.ngs.noaa.gov
National Earthquake Info Centre:
neic.usgs.gov
National Imaging & Mapping:
164.214.2.59/
National Snow and Ice Data Center:
nsidc.org
New Orleans - Before and After:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9162119
New Orleans - it's hard to understand the devastation:
www.ernietheattorney.net
New Orleans Flood Map:
mapper.cctechnol.com
New Orleans Risk and Reliability Report:
nolarisk.usace.army.mil
New Orleans Topography:
www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/
Nine killer earthquakes:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24032081
NOAA Satellite and Information Service:
www.ssd.noaa.gov
North Texas weather YTD stats:
blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/
Noting milestone 'of an act of God' (Mount St. Helens):
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7902704/
Observing the Earth (ESA):
www.esa.int/export/esaEO/
Oceanography by ONR:
www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/
Oceans Introduction:
emuseum.mnsu.edu
Office of Coast Surveys:
chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov
OneGeology - Earth Geological Map Data:
www.onegeology.org
Online Index Maps:
www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/branner/
Online Map Creation:
www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/
Online Maps to Everywhere:
www.multimap.com
Panama Canal Miraflores Locks Time-lapse:
video.google.com
Physical Oceanography from Space:
prodaac.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/
Pictometry:
www.pictometry.com
Planet Earth Guide:
dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/
Planet Geospatial:
www.planetgs.com
Plate Tectonics:
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/
Project GeoSim:
geosim.cs.vt.edu
Quakes on Virtual Earth:
www.viavirtualearth.com/quakes/
Racing Balloon on Live Maps:
www.racingballoon.com
Reading Weather Maps:
ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu
Recent Earthquakes & Volcanoes:
hsv.com/scitech/earthsci/
Recent World Earthquake Activity:
earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/
ReefBase:
www.reefbase.org
Remote Sensing Basics:
cgi.girs.wageningen-ur.nl/k075218/
Remote Sensing Integrated Unit:
waves.marine.usf.edu
Resources for Geographers:
www.colorado.edu/geography/
Richter Magnitude Scale:
wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/
Rock Hounds:
sln.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/
Rogue Waves:
www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/257.html
San Francisco 1897-1916:
memory.loc.gov
Sand Dunes:
www.mesa.edu.au
Satellite Photos of Famous Locations:
www.famousmaps.com
Science behind a storm surge:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679685/
Seismic Waves:
www.aeic.alaska.edu
Seismic Waves Simulator:
www.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/
Seismology:
www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/
SharpGIS:
www.sharpgis.net
Society of Dams:
www.ussdams.org
Soil Science Education:
www.statlab.iastate.edu/soils/
St Andreas Fault Line:
www.exploratorium.com/faultline/
Stonehenge Project:
www.thestonehengeproject.org
Storm Events Database:
www4.ncdc.noaa.gov
Suburban sprawl in California (panoramic photos):
www.exuberance.com/photos/
Super Volcanoes:
www.space.com
Surface Transport in California:
www.transact.org/Ca/
Swiss Geographical Info System:
www.swissgeo.org
Tectonic Motion:
scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/
Temperate Oceans:
mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/oceans/
Tennessee Electronic Atlas:
tnatlas.geog.utk.edu/tea/
TerraFly:
www.terrafly.com
The Atlas of Canada:
atlas.gc.ca/site/english/
The Dynamic Earth:
www.mnh.si.edu/earth/
The Electronic Volcano:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~volcano/
The Island Directory:
www.unep.ch/islands/
The Map Room - A Weblog about Maps:
www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/
The Underground World of Caves:
cdis.missouri.edu/studentinfo/
The Water Cycle:
www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
Tidal Predictions for Australia:
www.ntf.flinders.edu.au/TEXT/TIDES/tides.html
Topographic Maps of California:
sunsite.berkeley.edu/histopo/
Traffic Nightmares:
www.usatoday.com/news/
Transportation Engineering:
www.webs1.uidaho.edu/niatt_labmanual/
Travel-time Maps and their Uses:
www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/
Trulia Hindsight Maps of Properties through Time:
hindsight.trulia.com
Tsunamis:
www.noaa.gov/tsunamis.html
Tsunami - Kalutara Beach Sri Lanka Images:
homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/1.html
Tsunami Society:
www.sthjournal.org
Tundra Cam:
tundracam.colorado.edu
Tutorials about Maps & Mapmaking:
www.cgrer.uiowa.edu
Two Towns Rebuild After Katrina:
risingfromruin.msnbc.com/the_towns.html
U.K. Weather:
www.weather.co.uk
Urban Water Resource Management:
www.gdrc.org/uem/water/
U.S. Highway Statistics:
www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/
U.S. State Reports:
classbrain.com/cb_sr/
USAPhotoMaps Instructions:
www.gpsinformation.net/waas/maps/
USAPhotoMaps Software:
www.jdmcox.com
Video captures deep-sea volcanic eruptions:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12961772/
Virtual Antarctica:
www.terraquest.com/antarctica/
Virtual Cave:
www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/
Virtual Earth:
virtualearth.msn.com
Virtual Field Trips:
emerald.ucsc.edu/~jsr/EART10/Trips/
Virtual Flyover (U.S.):
www.terrafly.com
Visible Earth - Oceans:
visibleearth.nasa.gov/Oceans/
Visit to a Wastewater-Treatment Plant:
wwwga.usgs.gov/edu/
Volcano Live:
www.volcanolive.com
Walk Through a Hydroelectric Project:
www.fwee.org/walk.html
Water:
www.abc.net.au/water/
Water Hands-On Activities:
www.wef.org/WefStudents/Teachers/
Water on the Web:
waterontheweb.org
Water Quality Standards Database:
www.ice.ucdavis.edu/wqsid/
Watershed Activity:
rodneyscience.freeyellow.com
Watershed Atlas:
www.watersheds.org
Watersheds, Lawn Care & Water Quality:
www.mda.state.mn.us/appd/ace/lawnsheds.htm
Weather Activities:
www.edheads.org/activities/weather/
Weather Classroom for Students:
www.weatherclassroom.com
Weather Eye:
weathereye.kgan.com
Weather Here & There:
archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Weather Unit:
faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/
Web Weather for Kids:
www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/
Web's Topographic Maps (U.S.):
www.topozone.com
Web-Based Tutorials on GIS:
What Causes Earth's Seasons?:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077384/
What is the capital of?:
www.what-is-the-capital-of.com
Where in the World?:
www.glyphweb.com
Winds:
www.bigchalk.com
WMS Global Mosaic:
onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/WK/
Working with Maps:
www.usgs.gov
WorldMapper:
www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
World Atlas:
www.mapquest.com
World Cave Database:
www-sop.inria.fr/agos-sophia/
World in the Balance:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
World Population (1 Person is 1 Pixel):
www.royalsapien.com/pop1/
World Waterfall Database:
www.world-waterfalls.com
Worldsat:
www.worldsat.ca/home/
Worldwide Forests:
www.fao.org/forestry/fo/country/
Yahoo! Maps:
maps.yahoo.com
Year of the Mountains:
www.mountains2002.org
Zoom into Maps:
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
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