Geography, Geology and the Environment

On-line Resources

GI-related Information

• Go-Geo!
  on-line resource discovery tool for spatial data and GI-related resources that exist within UK academia

Virtual Libraries

• Environment
• Oceanography
• Sustainable Development

LTSN Centre

• Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

UK Statistics

• UK Official National Statistics

PAGES

• PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth's past environment in order to make predictions for the future.

PSIgate Physical Sciences Information Gateway

• http://www.psigate.ac.uk free online catalogue of high quality Internet resources in the physical sciences. Resources are selected, catalogued and indexed by researchers and other specialists in their respective fields

UK Geology & Earth Science Departments

UK Geography Departments

England

Scotland

• Aberdeen University
• Dundee University
• Edinburgh University
• Glasgow University
• St Andrews University

Wales

• Aberystwyth
• Swansea University

N.Ireland/Eire

• Trinity College, Dublin

Web Resources - Developing World

• World Bank
• Amnesty International
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - UNAIDS
• United Nations Development Programme
• UNICEF

Web Resources - Earthquakes

Latest Earthquakes

• IRIS hypocentres
• SCEC hypocentres

Earthquake Maps

• Earthquake Maps
• Earthquake Maps - Graphical  Interface
• Edinburgh's Earthquake Locator

Moment Tensor  Solutions

• Harvard CMT Database Search
• NEIC Moment Tensors

Earthquake Searches

• NEIC earthquake search

Seismology Organisations

• BGS
• ISC
• IRIS DMC

Earthquake Information

• USGS Earthquake Hazards  Program
• Induced Seismicity Bibliography
• Redwood City Public Seismic Network

Other Links

• Glacier Effects of the M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake of November 3, 2002

Web Resources - Environment Links

• European Commission Environment
• Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs
• Natural England
• NASA Earth Observatory

Web Resources - Fluvial

Mudflows and Lahars

• Mudflows, Debris Flows, and Lahars
• Deadly Lahars from Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia, November 13, 1985
• Lake breakout causes lahars at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
• NASA Earth Observatory News Mount Kazbek Caucasus – ice avalanche

Bedforms

• USGS bedform sedimentology site
• Steady 2-dimensional bedforms

Symposia

• International Coastal Symposium 2002

Web Resources - Fossils

Museums

• British Museum (Natural History)
• Hunterian Museum
• Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science
• Cantonal Museum of Geology, Lausanne
• Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
• Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta
• U.C. Berkeley Museum of Palaeontology
• Berkeley type specimen catalogues
• Florida Museum of Natural History searchable palaeontology  databases
• New Mexico Museum of Natural History
• University of Nebraska State Museum
• Burke Museum, Univ. of Washington
• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Dinosaur Online Exhibits

• Dinocountry at Eastend, Saskatchewan
• Hadrosaurus foulkii : finding the world's first dinosaur skeleton
• Dinosaur National Monument, Utah

Other Sites of Interest

• PaleoNet Pages

On-line Databases

• Cretaceous Benthic Foraminifera (Orbitolinidae)

Professional Societies

• The Palaeontological Association

Commercial Sites

• Natural History Book Service
• UK Fossils Network Dedicated to Fossils & Fossil Collecting.
• UK Geologist's Equipment Geological and Fossil Equipment

Web Resources - Natural Hazards

• Earth Observatory: Natural Hazards
• Vajont landslide and reservoir disaster of 1963
• Stava tailings dams failure of 1985
• Spanish Oil spill
• US National Climatic Data Center
• Emergency Events Database EM-DAT : information on natural disasters that can be presented according to country or hazard, and can be used to generate maps and charts that illustrate spatial distributions and temporal trends.

Web Resources - Satellite Images

• National Land Survey of Iceland
• Scottish Air Photographs Collection
• NASA 's searchable directory of images, visualisations and animations of Earth
• California coast with helicopter aerial photography
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• NASA Earth Observatory

Web Resources - Volcanoes

• Michigan Tech. University: Information on Volcanoes
• VolcanoWorld
• The Electronic Volcano - Dartmouth Univ.
• AVO: Alaska Volcano Observatory
• CVO: Cascades Volcano Observatory
• HVO: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Volcano
• LVO: Long Valley Volcano Observatory
• MVO: Montserrat Volcano Observatory
• YVO: Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
• Mauna Loa Volcano
• Mount St.  Helens
• University of Washington Volcano Systems Center
• Hakone Volcano Research Center
• Unzen Volcano
• NVI: Nordic Volcanological Institute
• Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes, University of Hawaii at Hilo
• NASA Volcano Topography and Volcanic Hazards