Environmental Geology Hot Links!

General Links Pages

• The main US government access page and search engine 
• The main USGS links reference - connects you to the world's largest geological research agency
• The Virtual Geosciences Professor: a cornucopia of resources - all sorts of resources, from class pages to Virtual field trips
• Geological Society of America's education links
• The Web page for the textbook - Environmental Geology, by Merritts et al. (Freeman).
• Yahoo's Earth Sciences interest folder
• The Environmental News network (ENN). Subscribe to get current enviro-news!
• "Earthweek", chronicles natural events globally for the previous week - shows locations of earthquakes, active volcanoes... [as PDF files]

General Hazards Pages

• The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado - includes links to sites by hazard (at the bottom of the page) plus an archive of their own "Natural Hazards Observer", "N. H. Informer", and "Disaster Research".

Flooding

• The National Hurricane Center home page
• The USGS Water Resources home page - includes real-time and historic stream discharge records
• The National Weather Service's National Warnings page - floods, flash floods, hurricanes, tornadoes...
• The Flash Flood Laboratory at Colorado State University
• The Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) page

Landslides, etc.

• The USGS Landslides page
• The Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Center
• The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Information Center - our local snow and avalanche resource!

Earthquakes

• The USGS Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program home page
• A one-stop site regarding earthquake hazard mitigation
• A focused site, from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
• A links page to seismic data and information

Volcanoes

• A nice hazards page in the larger context of volcano and USGS research
• "Volcano World" from an unlikely source - North Dakota!
• Another unlikely source - Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
• The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Project
• The International Association of Volcanology... home page
• Dartmouth College's "Electronic Volcano"

Movies, etc.

• A geological commentary on "Dante's Peak"
• The "Volcano" home page - "The Coast is toast!"

Coastal

• A comprehensive coastal management site - from hazards to fisheries to tourism
• A complete tsunami ("tidal wave") site from the University of Washington
• The Tsunami Society page

Comet/Asteroid Impact!

• NASA' s Ames Research Center's answer to the question: "What could be worse?"

Tornadoes

• Twister - Believe it or not - good info on tornadoes and tornado safety
• A strong site on tornades from, would you believe, Vermont?

Wildfire

• Firewise - if you don't live in town, you need to know!

Water

• Again, the USGS is the place to start - for real-time discharge data, drought/flood hazard, and water quality info
• WaterWiser.org - A good place to start for conservation
• Montana's Water Information System - local information on water, including snowpack

Minerals

• Where it comes to minerals, the USGS (surprise!) is the place to start

Pollution ("resources out of place")

Mining-related

• Butte's Berkeley Pit - Fritz Daily's summary of the State of the Pit
• The USGS page on Colorado's Summitville Mine - a worst-case scenario for high-elevation mine waste?
• The National Mine Land Reclamation Center, West Virginia

Waste Disposal

• Recycler's World - a comprehensive waste management site

Global Change

Acid Rain

• The EPA's Acid Rain home page - with many links
• National Atmospheric Deposition Program page

Global Warming

• The EPA's Global Warming home page - with many links

• The American Water Works Association - All you wanted to know about water!
• Disaster Relief - National and international information
• The Red Cross Disaster page
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency
• The Environmental Protection Agency