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Geography Resources on the Web

Information Competence	Statistical Information
Humboldt State Resources	Weather and Climate Information
The World	Professional Associations
Physical Geography	Discussion Lists
Maps and Gazetteers	Other

Information Competence for Students of Geography at HSU (http://www.humboldt.edu/~geog/info_comp/index.html)

Geography Department (http://www.humboldt.edu/~geog)
Geospatial Resources: Maps, Cartography, GIS, Imagery (http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/geospatial.html)

Our World (http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html)
Geography On the Web (http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html)
Internet Sources for Students of Geography (http://www.Colorado.EDU/geography/virtdept/resources/contents.htm)

Earth Science Center (http://www.csc.fi/earth_science) - The Center for Scientific Computing(CSC), a Finnish publisher, provides links to many areas in physical geography.
Landscape Ecology and Biogeography (http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb6/physgeo) - A list of useful sites in those two areas.
Physical Geography Resources (http://feature.geography.wisc.edu) - Images and databases which demonstrate what one can do these days.

Namesever (http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo) - This server provides information on locations in the United States.
U.S. Gazetter (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer) - This gazetteer identifies places to view with the Tiger maps and provides census information.
Tiger Maps (http://tiger.census.gov) - Developed by the Census Bureau, this project is meant to provide a public resource for high quality maps of places in the United States.
Map Quest (http://www.mapquest.com) - A commercial site with a world atlas, trip planning, and routing information. Provides driving directions between U.S. cities.
Map Materials Provided by Government (http://info.er.usgs.gov)
Oceanic and Atmospheric Information (http://www.noaa.gov)
3G on W3: The Great Globe Gallery (http://travel.to/globe) - A collection of views of planet Earth.
Satellite Images and Remote Sensing (http://www.nasa.gov) - Provides many links to information including news items related to NASA.
SIR-C/X-SAR Images (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar) - A joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses sophisticated imaging radar to capure images of Earth that are useful to scientists.

Geospatial Data (http://www.fgdc.gov/) - A government site with links to various geospatial data sources.
Census Data (http://www.census.gov) - Provides both current and historical census information.

Climatological Data (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2871) - State by state climatological data (requires Adobe Acrobat software which is available for download).
National Weather Service (http://nws.noaa.gov) - Links to the latest US weather information.

The Association of American Geographers (AAG) (http://www.aag.org) - This site includes information on the association, meetings, publications, job postings, and related organizations.
Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers (http://www.rgs.org/) - Includes information on the society and its publications.

Directory of Scholary and Professional E-Conferences (http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS) - Diane K. Kovacs's directory of mailing lists and newsgroups in geography.