Download the Google Earth Software to search for specific locations worldwide via satellite imagery, topographical or geographical maps.

	"Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK Universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database."

This Social Science Google-Custom Search Engine searches all the Social Science departments at UC Berkeley. The UC Berkeley librarians have targeted 800+ academic, government agency, non-profit, and other web sites that provide high quality, downloadable statistical information and data sets. Emphasis is on data pertaining to the social sciences, health, developing countries, energy, natural resources, and the environment.

 

About Search Engine- Geography: Includes maps and geographic information about every country and state as well as a vast resource for students and others interested in geography.

 

Climate Analysis Branch: The CAB of the Physical Sciences Division of the NOAA strives to advance national capabilities to interpret the causes of observed climate variations, and to apply this knowledge to improve climate models and forecasts. Included are research results, experimental forecasts and links to interactive plotting and analysis pages.

 

Country Watch: Use your Los Rios Library User name and Password to access this site from home because the site is provided by LRCCD. This site offers a variety of information on specific countries including an overview of the country, political and economic conditions, and environmental issues. It also includes wire service stories for each country. This is the best place to start researching a country.  

 

David Rumsey Map Collection: "The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 15,800 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens, and manuscript maps."

 

Digital Library for Earth System Education: "DLESE supports Earth system science education by providing access to high-quality collections of educational resources, eEarth data sets and imagery, including the tools and interfaces that enable their effective use in educational settings. Support services are intended to help educators and learners effectively create, use, and share educational resources. Communication networks are provided to facilitate interactions and collaborations across all dimensions of Earth system education."

 

Earth and Ocean Sciences, Science.gov: "This site is a gateway to government science information and research results and provides a search of over 36 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to 1,850+ scientific websites. Two major types of information are included—selected authoritative science websites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials."

 

Earth Sciences & Map Library: This site offers a collection of maps, aerial photographs, a geography collection and internet resources.

 

Earth Science World: Earth Science World offers information geoscience, and provides acces to it's image bank, which contains photographs of all aspects of Earth Science, available to the public, educators, and the geoscience community free of charge.

 

Encyclopedia of Earth: The "new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public."

 

Geographic Information System: A Source for Mapping Technology, the GISPortal provides Geographic Information System (GIS) industry information.

 

Geographic Names Online: This Getty Thesaurus is intended to provide terminology and other information about the places important to various disciplines that specialize in material culture. The TGN includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical places are included.

 

Groundwater Biology:  A list of recommended websites researched by Giuseppe L. Pesce, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy.

 

Landsat Program: "The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected information about Earth from space. This science, known as remote sensing, has matured with the Landsat Program."

 

Library of Congress Country Studies: "A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 100 countries. Countries that were previously in multi-country volumes are now available individually."

 

NationMaster: "A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.

 

Nations Online: " The mission of this portal is to give you access to online information about the immense potential of creative power of the cultures of Earth, to views, visions and knowledge of humankind."

 

National Association of State Chief Information Officers: A directory of State profiles, with state government links, and state statistics.

 

National Geographic: "Resource for scientific discovery, travel, exploration, photography, maps, and news, featuring multimedia applications, live webcams, and educational tools from the National Geographic Society."

 

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Office: "The Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) or "NOAA Research" works in partnership with other organizational units of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA Research provides better forecasts, earlier warnings for natural disasters and a greater understanding of the Earth. Our role is to provide unbiased science to better manage the environment, nationally and globally."

 

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Links to maps include special interest, such as Foot-and-Mouth Disease spread, and general interest, which includes continents and regions.

 

Portals to the World: "Provided by the Library of Congress, Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria."

 

United Nations Common Database (UNCDB): "UNCDB provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas."

U.S. Gazetteer: "This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server."

 

U.S. Geological Survey Maps, Imagery, and Publications: The USGS provides portals to Geospatial Maps, Geologic Maps, and the online National Map. The imagery on this site includes aerial photographs, satellite images, and image galleries.

 

USGS Library: "Materials within the library system include books and maps dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Other materials include a nearly complete set of the various State Geological Survey publications and a virtually complete set of USGS topographic maps."

 

Weather Underground, Inc.: Go here to get local weather information in the United States and the World.

 

Wind Energy Resource Atlas: "This atlas estimates wind energy resource for the United States and its territories. and indicates general areas where a high wind resource may exist. This information is valuable to wind energy developers and potential wind energy users because it allows them to choose a general area of estimated high wind resource for more detailed examination."

 

World Database On Protected Areas: The WDPA is a comprehensive global spatial dataset on marine and terrestrial protected areas, internationally recognised as major tools in conserving species and ecosystems. Up to date information on protected areas is essential to enable a wide range of conservation and development activities. Since 1981 UNEP-WCMC, through its Protected Areas Programme, has been compiling this information and making it available to the global community. The WDPA is a joint project of UNEP and IUCN, produced by UNEP-WCMC and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas working with governments and collaborating NGOs.

 

World Digital Library Project: The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials which include manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from countries and cultures around the world. Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of United Nations Education.

Atlapedia Online: "Includes maps and geographic information about every country and state as well as a vast resource for students and others interested in geography."

 

Atlas of Our Changing Environment: "This interactive atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme provides useful information to all interested in both natural and human-made changes in our planet over the last 30-40 years."

 

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations: "CalCOFI are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish and Game, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Current focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change."

 

California Energy Policy: Information on Energy Policies from the California Energy Commission. Links in the left-hand column will take you to previous Inegrated Energy Policy Reports (IEPRs). Refer to the latest-adopted IEPR listed in the left-hand column for full information and materials on energy policies. The calendar links in the right-hand column will take you activities under the current IEPR proceeding.

 

Center for International Earth Science Information Network: "The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) was established in 1989 as an independent non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand the changing relationship between human beings and the environment."

 

Encyclopedia of Earth: This site is "a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work."

 

Historical Map and Chart Collection: "The Office of Coast Survey's Historical Map & Chart Collection is a rich archive of high-resolution images capturing a vast wealth of the U.S. government's historical surveying and mapping. The collection of over 35,000 scanned images - covering offshore and onshore sites - includes some of the Nation's earliest nautical charts, bathymetric maps, city plans, and Civil War battlefield maps."

 

Institute for Marine Remote Sensing: The IMaRS at the University of South Florida focuses on the analysis of digital data obtained by satellite and airborne sources, and on the development of applications of these data at local, regional, and global scales.

 

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Located at Columbia University, this website has information about climate, oceans, and environmental terrestrial ecology including the latest developments about Biosphere 2.

 

Map History: Old maps, early maps— non-current maps in general—are the subject of this site. Use this site to find free information about old maps, both on the web and in the real world. The site's 120 'pages' offer comment and guidance, and over 6,500 annotated links selected for relevance and quality. Iinformation is logically organised in a directory structure, Follow the links, use the index or explore via the Sitemap to see the full range of resources available.

 

National Energy Conservation Policy Act: "The NECPA serves as the underlying authority for Federal energy management goals and requirements. Signed into law in 1978, it is regularly updated and amended by subsequent laws and regulations. NECPA is the foundation of most current energy requirements. Because of this, it is essential that Federal agencies become well acquainted with the full text of the amended Act."

 

National Geographic: "Resource for scientific discovery, travel, exploration, photography, maps, and news, featuring multimedia applications, live webcams, and educational tools from the National Geographic Society."

 

National Weather Service: The NWS provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. NWS data and products form a national information database and infrastructure which can be used by other governmental agencies, the private sector, the public, and the global community. The NWS is a component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA is an Operating Unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

 

Renewable Energy Sources in the United States: Renewable energy sources are energy sources that are continually replenished. These include energy from water, wind, the sun, geothermal sources, and biomass sources such as energy crops. Article provided by NationalAtlas.gov.

 

SeaWeb: This site features information, programs and resources focusing on the major threats to the ocean: overfishing and destructive fishing practices; pollution, uncontrolled coastal development, introduction of invasive species, damming of rivers, destruction of the ozone layer, and global climate change.

 

Tahoe Environmental Research Center: "The Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) is dedicated to research, education and public outreach on lakes and their surrounding watersheds and airsheds. Lake ecosystems include the physical, biogeochemical and human environments, and the interactions among them. The Center is committed to providing objective scientific information for restoration and sustainable use of the Lake Tahoe Basin."

 

US Energy Information Administration: "The EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment."

 

USGS Library: This site provides USGS reports on earth science. Most publications located at this site and other USGS sites can be located by subject, author, date, USGS series or publication series number by using the reports and thematic maps electronic Publications Warehouse.

 

Understanding the World Today: This comprehensive site, developed by Gene Shakman (PhD, sociology), offers sociological, political and economic data about change worldwide using data sets from US governmental and other organizational bodies. The site's stated goal is to "Bring together knowledge of our social, political and economic world...A solid understanding of the world is the first step for improving living conditions of all people throughout the world."

 

Waterlife: "A co-production between the National Film board of Canada and Primitive Entertainment, Inc. and directed by Kevin McMahon, this film tells the epic story of the Great Lakes through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on the lakes for survival."

 

Western Water Assessment: The WWA utilizes multidisciplinary teams of experts in climate, water, law, and economics to provide information about natural climate variability and human-caused climate change. The Assessment was created in 1999 and is a joint effort between the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado and the NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.

 

World Atlas: Holt Rinehart Winston World Atlas.