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Geography Resource Guide

Internet Resources

For online tutorials in best use of the web for research; evaluating web resources and which search engines to use for what - see our Online Tutorials pages.  (see also - RDN's  Virtual Training Site which offers tutorials on web use by subject.)

Contents

University Geography Departments	Science news services
Professional Organisations	Software
General Links - maps
Electronic Publications

 

University Geography Departments

Geography Departments - in Australian universities

Professional Organisations

Institute of Australian Geographers - Main body representing geographers and promoting the study of geography in Australia
Australian Geographic Society - site for the magazine "Australian Geographic"
Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers - includes publications and a picture library
Association of American Geographers - site of a scientific and educational society founded in 1904- the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society site
Canadian Association of Geographers - McGill-Queen's University Press series in Canadian Geography
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society - a non-profit educational organisation founded in 1929 to advance geographical knowledge and its significance in Canada's development
Scholarly Societies - Geography - a comprehensive listing of resources of scholarly societies in geography.

General Links

General Geography sites - includes servers
Geography Servers around the world - Utrecht University. A collection of examples of geography-related sites all over the world.
Geography Resources - A commercial site. Links to a range of geography sites including GPS, earthquakes and maps.
Yahoo Geography - search just the USA individual countries or regions. There is a list of sites to choose from arranged in alphabetical order ranging from cartography to web directories.
WWW Virtual Library : Geography - a selection of sites covering general information, online educational resources, countries, and educational institutions.
Yahoo Earth Sciences - earth science topics included are geology and geophysics, geotechnical engineering, hydrology, meteorology and oceanography.
Geography Resources - Ohio State University. This is a site hosted by the Dept of Geography at Ohio State University and contains state, national and international resources maintained by faculty.
Australian Palaeontology - the Riversleigh Society Australian palaeontology web site provides access to institutions, researchers, information, ideas and the latest news in palaoeontology, palaeobotany, palaeogeography and palynology in Australia and the world
AGCRC - GRASSLinks - Australian Geodynamics CRC - interface to geographic information systems. A WWW interface to the AGCRC-4DGM Database which includes maps covering the geography, and geophysics of the Australian continent.
Meteorology / Climatology  - atmosphere weather and weather forecasting
Science.gov - the US government's science and technology site. links to technical reports, journal citations, databases, US govt web sites and fact sheets.
Glossary of Soil Science terms - The Soil Science Society of America's maintains the Internet Glossary of Soil Science Terms Web site. hundreds of soil terms as well as tables, and appendixes on soil taxonomy.

Maps, Mapping & Atlases
Map links - by the Bodleian Library. Links are categorised into online maps, GIS, remote sensing, gazetteers, weather, map libraries and museums, online journals, mapping organisations and resources and societies.
Australia's National Mapping Agency - an amazing yet authoritative reference to major Australian geographical features, index of topographic maps, zoom in on any part of Australia, find and locate one of 55,000 places in Australia
Geography Ready Reference; Atlases - the Internet Public Library. Provides an annotated collection of geography resources, maps and atlases and flags.

Electronic Publications

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers - International journal of major research papers and significant book reviews. Provides access to 1500 articles published since 1935
Geography Online Texts - from Books On-Line

Science news Services

SciCentral - gateway to scientific research news

Software

TNTLite - free version of TNTmips. It's a map and imagine processing system. Will work with Windows, Macintosh, UNIX and LINUX OS.