Cool Geography Links

Global Climate Change

· Basics of climate change and sources of information

What geographers do! (Plus job opportunities)

• Major job areas for geographers information from the American Association of Geographers

• The Imaging and Geospatial information Society Career brochure

• An overview of job types and a list of job sites from Eastern Michigan University.

• Description of geography jobs from Occupational Outlook Quarterly

• Jobs in Geographic Information Systems: the GIS job clearinghouse

• Geography News: ‘About geography’: News, careers and a gathering place for many things geographic

News and Events:

• Latest on the environment from NASA’s Earth Observatory

• The Sumatra earthquake: Basic information and great animations

• National Hurricane Center: Latest information on hurricanes

• Earthquakes – get the latest from the USGS

Scale:

• Check it out … one of the neatest things I have seen recently! Looking at the earth in powers of ten

General information and maps:

· Find out what is on the other side of the Earth from you: http://www.antipodemap.com/

• Maps and geography at the National Geographic

• U.S. Geological Survey USGS Geography site

• NASA images of Earth: A catalog of images and animations and the NASA Earth Observatory for images and analysis.

• NASA News for university students: Features and News

• Sightseeing with Google: Check out sights from around the world (includes a site in Bremerton!)

• Google Earth: Download free S/W to fly from space to your neighborhood

• Puget Sound Tsunami model

Weather:

• Images from geostationary satellites from NASA’s Global Hydrology and Climate Center

• El Nino information from the Pacific Marine Environmental laboratory

News and Events:

• Latest on the environment from NASA’s Earth Observatory

• The Sumatra earthquake: Basic information and great animations

• National Hurricane Center: Latest information on hurricanes

• Earthquakes – get the latest from the USGS