Links to Physical geography sites

AIR QUALITY

• San Joaquin Air Quality Board
• Center for Disease Control
• Regulation of Wood Burning
• Regulation of Agricultural Dust
• Effect of Longterm Pollution in Los Angeles
• Ozone Depletion
• Sacramento Tree Foundation

PRESSURE PATTERNS

• - satellite images of weather- global
• - satellite images/maps of weather- state and local
• jet stream

WEATHER

• the weather channel (www.weather.com)
• USA Today's weather page (www.usatoday.com)
• www.accuweather.com
• cloud seeding 1
• cloud seeding 2
• USGS-hurricanes (www.usgs.org)
• USGS-El Nino
• Yahoo-El Nino sites

CLIMATE

• USGS- climate
• USGS- climate change
• USGS- lake Biakil: continental rifts
• NASA- climate change
• Acid Rain- USGS
• Pollution - USGS-Western states
  

EXAM THREE

TECTONICS

• http://www.platetectonics.com/archives/index.htm (Great site for ALL! broad connections to all topics!)
• http://www.platetectonics.com/Tharpe-Heezen/index.htm (great bathometric maps!)

• National Geographic

• http://www.discovery.com/(the discovery channel's page)

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/media/ngm/index.html 
  
• http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/world.html (active volcanoes of the world)

• http://www.usgs.gov (USGS)   General USGS page
  
• http://geology.usgs.gov/index.shtml USGS geology page
  
• http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/ (USGS volcanoes)
   
• USGS earthquake page
  
• earthquake modifications/hazards
  
• Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup, CREW, earthquake mitigation, seismic mitigation, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, California

  http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ (the 1997 world factbook)

MASS MOVEMENT

• landslides
• Landslides: Rocky Mountain National Park
• FEMA - FACT SHEET: LANDSLIDES AND MUDFLOWS
• Anaheim Landslide Disaster next to Disneyland and the Anaheim Angels -- Anaheim    Hills Landslide Update
• Recent Developements in Landslide Mitigation Techniques
• Tully Valley landslide study
• Death Toll From Mexican Floods At Least 330
• mudflows

  KARST ENVIRONMENTS

• Falling Waters State Park near Chipley, Florida
• Sinkholes and Karst Engineering (6th Conference)
• Central Florida Sinkholes
• AltaVista: Simple Query \sinkholes\
• Sinkholes-usgs science school
• SINKHOLES-florida sinkholes, education page
• W.G. Jaques Company Subsurface Voids & Sinkholes modification service
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/destinations/Yellowstone_National_Park/Bozeman_to_Yellowstone.html
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/voices/assignment/story03/story03_resources.html Diving in Caverns
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/chiquibul/intro.html (inside a cave)

FLUVIAL PROCESSES

• http://USGS water site

• National Geographic-geothermal energy

• National Geographic

GLACIATION

• Yosemite National Park

• Glacier National Park

• World Glaciation History

• Glaciation and glacial hazards (USGS)

• Mount Shasta

• Tibet and Himalaya: Glacial Studies

• Bering Strait/ Aluetain Land Bridge

• FTP Geology Image Archive - Glaciation

• Geological excavation in Hamnsundhelleren cave, Norway

• Kenai Fjords National Park Home Page

• Fjords, Norway

AOLIAN PROCESSES

• Aeolian processes

• NERC Ph. D studentships

• Connection to glaciation-loess

• Great Basin

• GORP - Exploring and Photographing the Dramatic Vistas of Northern Arizona - Monument Valley, The Navajo Tribal Park

COASTAL DEGRADATION

• MALIBU- cliff retreat

• PRC: Conservation Programs

• The Coast Kit - Chapter 3 Coastal Management

• NetCoast: Processes

• Coastal Change Analysis Programme

NATURAL HAZARDS

• USGS- hazards

• Introduction to the Natural Hazards Center, its Services, and its Staff

• PROVIDING THE SOLUTIONS FOR

• The Natural Hazards Mitigation Group at UniGE

• California Earthquake Risk Analysis Samples - (c) 1998 GeoRisk

• NOAA/NWS/OM/SIGNIFICANT WEATHER

• Natural Disaster Reference Database

FINAL EXAM

SOILS

• American Farmland Trust
• NUTRIENT DEPLETION
• Erosion - Table of Contents
• WORLD GAME INSTITUTE: What the World Wants Project
• Yahoo! Search Result

ECOSYSTEMS

• http://WWW-Geography.Berkeley.EDU/Publications/envirobib.html (Environmental History of North America)
• http://WWW-Geography.Berkeley.EDU/Publications/CalPlants/califplanttable.html (Plant Communities of California)
• Frankenfoods-taco shells
• Frankenfoods - GRAINS
• http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,34817,00.html - "Whose Afraid of Frankenfoods?"
• Frankenfoods - "Make Ways for Frankenfish"
• Frankenfoods "The Bride of Frankenfoods"
• Frankenfoods  "Brave New World of Milk"
• Scientific American; Frankenfoods 

DEFORESTATION

• Book Review of \After Duwagan\ (J. Peter Brosius)
• New Forests Project (efforts to curb deforestation)
• KEWA (Kashmir Environmental Watch Association)
• Deforestation, shifting cultivation, and tree crops in Indonesia:
• Deforestation: How is the United States Responding?
• Deforestation:global statistics
• tropical deforestation
• Atmosphere - Deforestation - Beginner
• Effects of deforestation on the soil organic matter of mountain soils in Southern Tienshan

DESERTIFICATION

• http://www.unccd.int/main.php (United Nations Center for Desertification)
• http://www.undp.org/seed/unso/ (UNDP Desertification)
• http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~arid/ Desertification Monitoring and Forecasting
• http://www.wcmc.org.uk/dynamic/desert/ Desertification Info Network
• http://www.medalus.leeds.ac.uk/index.html Mediterranean Desertification
• http://www.rala.is/desert/ Iceland Desertification-Cool!!

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Honor the Earth- NativeAmerican environmental organization
• Border Information & Solutions Network
• CEDARE: Arab Region sustainable development
• CEESE/CESSE
• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
• The Earth Network for Sustainable Development
• Environmental Resources Trust
• Foundation For Sustainable Development
• Welcome!Institute for Ecological Health-focus on Central California
• Yahoo! Regional:U.S. States:Washington, D.C.:Community:Environment and Nature:Organizations:World Resources Institute
• FORESTS FOREVER HOME PAGE- California forest education
• Ancient Cross Timbers Project: examines US forests and prairies
• Wood of Life: Irish Woodworkers for Africa
• Yahoo! Science:Ecology:Ecosystems:Forests:Rain Forests:Organizations:Rainforest Action Network
• TRC:Trppical Rainforest Coalition

National Geographic on Assignment

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/voices