H-HistGeog Discussion Network HNet discussion group dedicated to examining the intricate relationship between space and time. Features subject overview, archive and subscription information. http://www.h-net.org/~histgeog/
Extractions: The H-HistGeog network is a forum for geographers, historians, and all others who have an interest in the intricate relationship between space and time. Gareth E. John [gejohn@stcloudstate.edu] AAG 2006, FYI Jeanne Kay Guelke [jkg@fes.uwaterloo.ca] CFP: Latin American Environmental History, AAG 2006 Andrew Sluyter [asluyter@lsu.edu] CFP: Uncertainty in Historical GIS, AAG 2006 Mary B. Ruvane [ruvane@email.unc.edu] Robert J. Mayhew [Robert.Mayhew@bristol.ac.uk] CFP: Historical GIS, AAG 2006 Michael T. Wheeler [mtwheels@twcny.rr.com] Visiting Scholars, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Lisa Zaid [LZaid@ushmm.org]
I B Notes General notes on IB geography http://www.geographyjim.org/i_b_notes.htm
Extractions: Population Geography Thomas Malthus, was a British Clergyman/economist. He came up with the Malthusian Theory of Population Growth. The salient points of his theory were Food production increased at an arithmetic ratio (1, 2, 3...) while population increased at an exponential ratio (1, 2, 4, 8...). Population growth would outstrip food supply, and mass starvation would follow.
SocioSite: PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE: INTERNET USE(ERS) Academic paper giving analysis of the geography and demography of the Internet. By Albert Benschop of the University of Amsterdam. http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/websoc/demography.html
Extractions: Cybergeography We used to live in a local world that was divided into geographically demarcated units, like home, office, street, cafe, train, rugby field, or dancing. The internet age seems to have blurred any geographical structure. Yet, the virtual reality of the internet has its own particular geography. It is a geography which is built out of networks and nodes which transport information flows which are created and controlled on special locations. Cyberspace as such is no tangible space, but the information processes which constitute this space are embedded in the local world with brick-and-mortar rooms and hard-wired computers. The information space of the internet is constituted by connections between computers and networks of computers. So internet is not a monolytic or placeless 'cyberspace', but rather a series of new technologies that are used by millions of people on different places of the local world. The technical geography refers to the telecommunications infrastructure of the internet, the connections between the computers that organize internet traffic (routers), and the distribution of the internet's broad bandwidth. Through a myriad of possible routes every node of the network is connected to every other node. The USA used to play a central role in the connections between the countries. The technical structure of the internet was highly concentrated round the USA, but this hegemony has been diminished by the emergence of new powerful nodes (hubs and routers) in other areas of the world, particularly in Europe. The strategic differences between the countries are declining. The highly USA-concentrated structure of the technical geography is gradually replaced by a technical dependency between the metropoles of the world.
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY The Department of geography and Earth Sciences offers BSc in Earth Sciences and a BSc Environmental Geoscience degree programme. http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/
Elanora Heights Primary School - Information - Liffey School project about the River Liffey in Dublin compiled by students from Elanora Heights Primary School. Illustrates how a local river can be used as a focus for studies of local culture, geography, and environmental issues. http://www.iol.ie/~ndnsp/rivers/liffey1.htm
Extractions: The reports come from the students of Gerard Maloney of the North Dublin National School Project , Ireland. The river Liffey is the main river in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. It rises in Sally Gap near Kippure in Wicklow, the county just south of Dublin. It then travels one hundred and twenty five kilometres through the centre of Dublin City, and out into Dublin Bay, and out to the Irish Sea. Tadhg O. On the river Liffey there are 16 bridges.The first is the Anna Livia Bridge. The Anna Livia Bridge was originally named Chapelizod Bridge, but it changed on 5th April 1982 and became the Anna Livia Bridge in honour of James Joyce, author of the world famous novel "Finnegan's Wake". He called the river Anna Livia Plurabelle.The bridge is built on an ancient Ford site on the old highway leading to the west of Ireland.
High School Ace Online interactive vocabulary game. http://highschoolhub.org/hub/geography.cfm
Extractions: The Internet Geographer Topic Selector Home Web Directory Frequently Asked Questions Quiz Pages ... Search The Internet Geographer's Links Contact TIG Recommend a Site Evaluations and Comments e mail The Internet Geographer About The Internet Geographer Internet Geographer Home The Internet Geographer Directory of Geography Web Links Human Geography
Rader's GEOGRAPHY4KIDS.COM geography4Kids.com! The web site that teaches physical geography fundamentals toeveryone! http://www.geography4kids.com/
Extractions: Thanks for visiting! After a few years away, we're back online as a free site. Right now you're on GEOGRAPHY4KIDS.COM . If you are looking for physical geography basics, stay on this site. You can start by choosing one of the sections above. At the bottom of each page you will find links to our other science sites that cover chemistry and biology. If you surf the site and get lost in all of the information, use the search function on the side of the pages. Many of you may not be familiar with physical geography. It's the biggest earth science around. It uses many ideas from other sciences that you have seen before. We can only begin to explain how ideas from many different fields combine into the knowledge of physical geography. You will find information from Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Climatology, Astronomy and many other sciences. If you're saying, "Where do I start with so much information?" Don't worry. There's one common thing that travels throughout the universe... ENERGY . We suggest starting your explorations there. We'll introduce many concepts about the flow of energy on Earth and then lead you into other ideas on the site.
AGI GIS Dictionary - Free Edition Nearly 1,000 GIS terms and 52 diagrams published by the Association for Geographic Information and the University of Edinburgh Department of geography. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html
Extractions: WARNING: This software is still under development and is liable to change. Please read This on-line dictionary of GIS terms is brought to you by the Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography The dictionary includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams. We hope you find it a useful resource. International United Kingdom North America Australia Europe Asia Enter the term you wish to find and click the submit button. For search tips, click HERE Aternatively, you may search for the term you require using any of the following methods If you have discovered any errors, or just want to make some suggestions, please go to the feedback page. It will only take a few minutes to complete the form. If you found the dictionary useful, please consider adding this link to your hotlist, or asking your server manager to provide a permanent link from your local server,which will hopefully benefit others.
Geography At Sussex Admissions information, course directory, handbooks and research details. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/geography/
Extractions: Home A-Z Index People Reference Contact us Home Admissions Teaching Research ... Contacting us We provide stimulating teaching and pioneering research in an academic setting that is uniquely interdisciplinary. Our working environment is relaxed and friendly, with a campus set amidst the beautiful South Downs but only five minutes from the vibrant seaside city of Brighton.
U.S. Census Bureau Geography Web Page Mapping products and services, as well as geography resources used to compilethe US Census. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/
Geography Geographic facts, lists, and statistics, including highest mountains, longest rivers, latitudes and longitudes, and explorations and expeditions. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001742.html
PBS - The Voyage Of The Odyssey - Track The Voyage - Kiribati Transcript of a travel log by a reporter on a scientific program. Details obsevations of Howland Island, with descriptions of the geography and bird life. Include audio files. http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20001204_log_transcript.html
Extractions: Log Transcript We have arrived at Howland Island. It would be hard to imagine a smaller, flatter, more featureless place. It's kidney shaped, with its longest axis only 1½ miles, and an average height above sea level under 25 feet. To expose those 25 feet, however, the base rises through more than three miles of water, so that the island is just the very top of a 16,000 foot, underwater mountain. It looks as though any serious storm surge accompanying a typhoon would sweep unobstructed across it. (Typhoons are what people out here in the western Pacific call hurricanes) but equatorial latitudes don't experience typhoons or hurricanes, so perhaps that never happens. At our anchorage and from the deck of the Odyssey there is no visible sign of human occupation save a short, low stone wall. From the mast, however, we can see that it's a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree and with what appear to be bits of ruins scattered over it. Howland does have one notable feature, however, and it's visible several miles away: a solitary, painted tower reminiscent at a distance of a tombstone. It's called the Amelia Earhart beacon. Its complete isolation and loneliness underlines, poignantly, the loneliness of her ocean perishing. The National Parks service is making strong efforts to prevent the importation of foreign species to Howland Island, and they take elaborate precautions to make sure that no one brings in insect eggs, or plant seeds on their clothing. So after years of exploitation and neglect, Howland has a new policy: in Amelia Earhart's day everything that could be done to facilitate her arrival from foreign parts was done. Now everything that can be done to prevent arrivals from foreign parts is done. But I support that policy: it makes excellent biological sense. Howland Island has become a particularly clear example of how humanity sometimes changes its priorities for the better in but a single human lifetime.
Iran Chamber Society Information about the country's history, culture, sports, art, geography, and government. Includes readercontributed essays and articles. http://www.iranchamber.com/
Extractions: This is a comprehensive section, which pays lots of attention to Iran's culture, cultural events, music, religious music, musicians, musical instruments, visual arts, artists, cinema, film makers, language, literature, writers, poets and their biographies. Iranian old scripts and their fonts, museums, galleries, cuisines and their recipes, rituals, religions, Persian carpet, architecture and many more are covered here as well. This section covers the historic events, history of ancient Iran (Persia), birth of the Iranian (Persian) Empires, ancient Imperial Armies, historic inscriptions, Greek and Arab invasions, Iranian identity challenges, Mongolian invasion, rebirth of Imperial Iranian dynasties, Persian Gulf and its history. Historic movements and revolutions, contemporary history, history articles, historical personalities and photos are featured too. In this section attention's gone to Iran's cities, places, geography, facts and figures, national monuments, flags and national anthem, cities' dialing codes, government and ministries, Iranian embassies abroad, media and sport. Iranian all times personalities are covered here as well as Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran, education, higher education, universities in Iran, Iranian people and tribes.
Distinctive Geography Of The Earth Identifies the biggest, highest, deepest, lowest, tallest, longest, and most populous countries, landmasses, oceans, lakes, rivers, mountains, and land surface depressions on Planet Earth. http://home.comcast.net/~igpl/Earth.html
Egypt: Nubia In Modern And Ancient Times History of Nubia from ancient times to the present, plus essays on the geography of Nubia, its political divisions and names over time, and its culture and traditions; from TourEgypt. http://touregypt.net/historicalessays/nubia.htm
Extractions: Nubia Nubia is located in today's southern Egypt and northern Sudan. The modern inhabitants of southern Egypt and Sudan still refer to themselves as Nubians. They speak the Nubian language as well as Arabic. Thousands of Nubians from the north were forced to relocate from their endangered homelands to be resettled in Egypt and Sudan. This land has one of the harshest climates in the world. The temperatures are high throughout most of the year, and rainfall is infrequent. The banks of the Nile are narrow in much of Nubia, making farming difficult. Yet, in antiquity, Nubia was a land of great natural wealth, of gold mines, ebony, ivory and incense which was always prized by her neighbors. Nubia is the homeland of Africa's earliest black culture with a history which can be traced from 3100 BC onward through Nubian monuments and artifacts, as well as written records from Egypt and Rome. The land of Nubia is a desert divided by the river Nile. For want of water and rich soil, most of Nubia has never been able to support a large population for long periods. However, some of Africa's greatest civilizations emerged here, centers of achievement whose existence was based on industry and trade. Because they did not write their own languages until very late in ancient times, we know these centers and their people largely through their archaeology and what the Egyptians and Greeks said about them.
SOU Geography Department Wherever your geographical interests lie, the geography Department at SOU is sure View the geography Department s Information Site for more information. http://www.sou.edu/Geography/
Extractions: Climb dunes in the Mojave Desert. Analyze land use-planning strategies. Observe geographic anomalies while backpacking along the Lost Coast of California. Conduct intensive mapping of vineyards using Global Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Wherever your geographical interests lie, the Geography Department at SOU is sure to offer classroom and internship opportunities that will appeal to you. The major encourages extensive fieldwork in one of the most geographically diverse regions in the world. Geography students enjoy SOU's small class sizes, individual faculty attention, and a capstone project that combines a Field Geography course with an effective internship placement program. View the Geography Department's Information Site for more information. Updated Wednesday, 21-Sep-2005 16:37:32 PDT SOU HOME ACADEMICS CAMPUS COMMUNITY SOU TODAY ... FIND IT
Extractions: Established in 1968, the Deptartment of Geography Map Library is the largest collection of cartographic material in Saskatchewan. A comprehensive collection of maps, atlases, cartobibliographies, periodicals, air photos, and other reference materials is maintained. The Map Library is extensively used for research, seminars, and teaching purposes by the faculty, students and researchers from various departments of the University. As the centre for cartographic information, it also provides reference and consultation services to other educational institutions, government departments, business community, and the public in general. Map Collection
Is Geomorphology Within Geography Or Geology? Extended discussion of the question whether geomorphology is a subdiscipline of geology or of physical geography. http://main.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/gw/gggeo/gggeo.html
Extractions: Subject: geomorphology as a field of study I have a question for everyone. What do you say to the geologists who claim that there is no longer a need for the study of geomorphology, that it is nothing more than physical geology? Our school is in the process of a semester conversion, and the geomorphology course was a casulty of the process. Geology dropped it, but I was successful in adding it to the geography curriculum. There seems to be no small degree of antipathy toward the subject among the geologists here on campus. So, I wondered how others have handled the question. Thanks, Paul R. Larson Paul R. Larson, Ph.D.
Triviaplaza - The Trivia Quiz Site Collection of interactive trivia quizzes covering geography, movies, and pop music. http://www.triviaplaza.com/
