Updated Jan 16, 2002
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W.W.Locke
Environmental Geology Hot Links!
Hot Links:
General
Hot Links:
Hazards
Hot Links:
Resources
Hot Links:
Organizations
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]
Geologic Hazards Pages
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!
Resources
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
Organizations
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
Updated 1/16/02 by
W. W. Locke
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