Human Geography

Human Geography – Links Page

1) Links to sites related to sections of the course
Introduction - Culture - Population - Migration - Language - Religion - Agriculture - Urban - Development - Economic - Political

2) Other areas within geography
Transportation – Geographic Information Systems – Exploration – Regional/Atlases - Physical Geography

Introduction and Culture

Web site dedicated to John Snow, who used "GIS" (as it existed in the 1850s) to study the spatial distribution of disease.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

The Changing Face of Postville

http://www.gazetteonline.com/special/postville/index.htm

Gullah Culture in Danger of Fading Away

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0607_wiregullah.html

Sequent Occupance by Derwent Whittlesey

http://people.uncw.edu/hinese/GGY_473/SEQUENT%20OCCUPANCE.htm

Culture Dominance Drives Anti-Globalization Sentiment

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/citizen/07feb00/tard0207.html

History of the US Cultural Environment

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html

Population

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov

CensusScope: Your portal to Census 2000 data

http://www.censusscope.org

U.S. Census Bureau: 2001 Statistical Abstract of the United States

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/stat-ab01.html

Recent (January 2000) Census Bureau report on Geographical Mobility (PDF file)
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p20-538.pdf

Other publications on population available from the Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/popula.html

GeoLytics: Where to get free census data

http://www.geolytics.com/freedatainfo/wherefreedata.html

ISU Census Services - census data, related publications
http://socserver.soc.iastate.edu/census

This site includes the document we reviewed in class: "Iowa's Changing Population: A Brief Review of Trends"
http://socserver.soc.iastate.edu/census/Data/Iowa/Iowa%20Trends%20Mar%202001.pdf

IntlPop - an international population simulation program -- from Project GeoSim
http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/huip.html

Forecast Sees Halt to Population Growth by End of Century
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0806_population.html

Male Population Grew Faster Than Female Population Census 2000 Analysis Shows
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01cn181.html

The Spatial Abandonment and Spatial Clustering of the Elderly in the United States (article in Geography Online)
http://www.siue.edu/GEOGRAPHY/ONLINE/shaw.htm

Population Profile of the US: 2000

http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/profile2000.html

Yale University Library: Social Sciences Library and Information Services

http://www.library.yale.edu/socsci/subjguides/demography/

6 Billion Human Beings

http://www.popexpo.net/english.html

Forecast Sees Halt to Population Growth by End of Century

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0806_population.html

U.S. Census: World’s Third Largest County Adds 33 Million

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0412_census.html

Ten Myths of Population

http://208.245.156.153/archive/outputgo.cfm?ID=730

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

http://ciesin.org/

CIESIN: Demographic Data Cartogram, U.S. Census Data for GIS Users

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddcarto/

Gridded Population of the World

http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/gpw/globldem.doc.html

Access to U.S. Demographic Data- Data and Applications for Analysis and Mapping of U.S. Population

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/demog/

Demography and the Social Contract

http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/opr0204.pdf

The International Society of Malthus

http://desip.igc.org/malthus/index.html

The Older Foreign-Born Population in the U.S.-2000

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p23-211.pdf

Demographics and the Global Future

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1291056

Asian and Asian-American Populations in the U.S. 2000

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf

Waterloo Courier- “New Figures indicate area population loss”

http://www.wcfcourier.com/metro2001/020430figures.html

The Population Institute: Overpopulation

http://www.populationinstitute.org/teampublish/71_234_621.cfm

Population decline hurts rural housing

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/19457239.html

Declining Birth Rate Worries MOI (Taiwan)

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2002/10/15/000175736

The Population Explosion is Over

http://www.aei.org/ra/rawatten4.htm

Migration

Article in The Economist (a British newsmagazine) on immigration to Iowa
http://www.uni.edu/~strausst/us0020.html

MigModel, a migration modeling and simulation program -- from Project GeoSim
http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/mmod.html

CNN special report: “Human Trade: The Fastest-Growing Crime”

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/immigration/stories/human.trade/

Migration News

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/index.html

Assembling the Future- How International Migrants are Shaping the 21^st Centruy

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00074B04-D03A-1CC5-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2

Urbanization and Migration

http://www.unfpa.org/modules/briefkit/07.htm

Language

Phonological Atlas of North America
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/

A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html

The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html

American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org/

The Dictionary of American Regional English
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

Differences between American and British English
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html

City Comparisons
http://www.slanguage.com/compare.html

In Search of the First Language - transcript of Nova program
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2120glang.html

Real Player NPR Interview with William Labov of the Phonological Atlas effort
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990312atc08.rmm

U.S. News & World Report Article on Regional Changes in Language
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/usnews/usnews1.jpg (page 1)
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/usnews/usnews2.jpg (page 2)

History of Words and Language, from Suite101.com
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/history_of_words

The Word Spy-find out definitions of new words or old words revived

http://www.logophilia.com

“Regional Accents: Professor Believes Americans are Sounding Less Alike than Ever Before”

http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_990903_accents_feature.html

Translation guide to talk like the locals

http://www.slanguage.com

Indigenous Language Institute

http://www.indigenous-language.org/

Religion

American Religion Data Archive

http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home

Agriculture

Section on the Geography of Agriculture from About.com
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022398.htm

Economic Forces Shaping the Rural Heartland
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/heartlnd/hrtmain.htm

Where Have All the Packing Plants Gone? The New Meat Geography in Rural America
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/er99q3.htm#drabenstott

U.S. Agriculture at the Crossroads in 1999
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/er99q1.htm#crossroads

This Little Piggy Went To Market: Will The New Pork Industry Call the Heartland Home?
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/er98q3.htm#drabenstott

Hog prices: Nowhere to go but up
http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/news/backgrd/990402.Hurt.porkprices.html

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at Iowa State University
http://www.fapri.iastate.edu/

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) publications at Iowa State University

http://www.fapri.iastate.edu/publications.html

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development

http://www.card.iastate.edu/

“Tourism and Hog Farms Clash”

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789013/16447909.html

Geography of Agriculture at about.com

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022398.htm

Center for Rural Affairs

http://www.cfra.org

Urban Geography

The National League of Cities

http://www.nlc.org

‘Boomburbs’ mark an era of sprawl

http://www.msnbc.com/news/590942.asp?cp1=1

USGS Rocky Mountain Mapping Center, Urban Growth and Land Use Modeling

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/html/growth/

USGA: Middle Rio Grande Basin Study- Albuquerque Urban Area

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/mrgb/alb_urbarea.html

Best Practices Database- this searchable database contains over 1100 proven solutions to common social, economic, and environmental problems of an urbanizing world.

http://www.bestpractices.org/cgi-bin/bp98.cgi?cmd=page&page=main399

Welcome to the Green Map System

http://www.greenmap.com/

Report on Urban Regeneration in the United Kingdom

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3575/1230_206/55778096/print.jhtml

The Image Place- 105 images for Urban Geography, Urban Planning, and Urban History

http://www.theimageplace.net/index.htm

Urban Land Use: Residential Patterns and Change

http://www.uncc.edu/~hscampbe/landuse/a-intro/intro.html

Medalus Research

http://www.medalus.demon.co.uk/

Two Perspectives on Sprawl

http://www.plannersweb.com/wfiles/w205.html

The Process, Patterns, and Functions of Human Settle

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/12/

Three Models of Urban Land Use

http://www.uncc.edu/~hscampbe/landuse/b-models/B-3mods.html

EPA: Smart Growth

http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/

Sprawl City

http://www.sprawlcity.org/index.html

Urban Planning, 1794-1918: 185 primary documents dealing with urban planning

http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm

The Polis Center: an academic research center focused on urban issues

http://www.polis.iupui.edu/polis/home.htm

Columbia, Irvine, and The Woodlands: Planning Lessons from Three US New Towns in the 1960’s & 70’s

http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/dl/117_forsyth02web.pdf

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

http://www.sage.wisc.edu/

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Epbhales/Levittown.html

Online Planning Resources

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/

Public Policy Institute of California

http://www.ppic.org/publications/CalCounts13/calcounts13.press.html

Suburb’s Growth Moves Westward

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/19423090.html

Urbanization and Migration

http://www.unfpa.org/modules/briefkit/07.htm

Human Sprawl Covering the Planet

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/population/population.jsp?id=ns99992315

Historic Cities

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html

Ruavista: Exploring the city and urban areas through signs, street graphics, architecture, etc.

http://www.ruavista.com

Living on the Edge: Decentralization within Cities in the 1990s

http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/berubeformanedge.pdf

American Planning Association

http://www.planning.org

Development

Human Development Reports

http://www.undp.org/hdro

Economic Geography

Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2000

http://www.bls.gov/opub/gp/laugp.htm

The Best and Worst States to Run a Small Biz

http://www.bcentral.com/articles/harper/141.asp?cobrand=msn&LID=3800

Iowa Workforce Development: Labor Force Data

http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/laborforce/index.html

Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa Wage Surveys

http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/occupations/wages2001/index.html

State of Working Wisconsin 2002 Report

http://www.cows.org/currently/archive/files/soww2002/soww2002.pdf

The National Climatic Data Center: research using meteorological science to enhance economic prediction and measurement.

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cie/cie.html

The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/australia/

The New Geography on NPR Talk of the Nation

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1116371

Political Geography

Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~dpurcell/pgsg1.html

Political Geography on the Internet

http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/geography.html

Transportation

Transportation Geography links composed by UNI

http://www.uni.edu/transport/links.html

Intelligent Transportation Systems-Utilizing a broad range of diversity technologies to meet transportation problems.

http://www.itsa.org

U.S. Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems

http://www.its.dot.gov

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

ArcExplorer-free GIS software tool
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html

Natural Resources GIS (NRGIS) at DNR- free GIS data
http://samuel.igsb.uiowa.edu/nrgis/gishome.htm

Cyber Geography Research-Exploring the geographies of the Internet, the Web, and other emerging Cyberspaces

http://www.cybergeography.com

http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/geographic.html

ESRI - the creator of ArcView, a popular Geographic Information System (GIS) software package

http://www.esri.com/

Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office

http://www.sco.wisc.edu/

The Geographer’s Craft

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/intro/intro_f.html

Internet Guide to Geographic Information Systems

http://www.gis.com/

NCGIA- Nation Center for Geographic Information & Analysis

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/

NCGIA Core Curriculum

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/core.html

Dane County On-Line GIS Resource List

http://www.danenet.wicip.org/gisedu/homepage/maps/resource.htm

Atlas Maps

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html

Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/lieland/m0-0.html

Geography Network: GeoCommunicator

http://www.geocommunicator.gov/

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (Maps)

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Article in PC Magazine: “Mobile GPS Devices: Track Their Progress”

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,96210,00.asp

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe

http://www.euratlas.com

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Exploration

Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/australia/

Regional Geography, Atlases

Carto Corner- National Atlas of Canada

http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

The Digital South Asia Library

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

Africa: Congo Daily News

http://www.congodaily.com/

Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and associated archives 1550-1740

http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html

Map Library of the National Library of Scotland

http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/index.html

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe

http://www.euratlas.com

China Dimensions Data Collection

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/china/

Alabama Maps

http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/index.html

Mapping Asia

http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/index.php

UK Maps and Aerial Photos

http://www.multimap.com

UK- The Engineering Map of the British Isles

http://www.engineering-timelines.com/locate/locate.folder.html

US- Washington state: Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html

Waterloo, Iowa: Waterloo Courier- “New Figures indicate area population loss”

http://www.wcfcourier.com/metro2001/020430figures.html

Taiwan: Declining Birth Rate Worries MOI

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2002/10/15/000175736

Physical Geography

USGS (United States Geologic Survey)

http://ww.usgs.org

The Climate Ark- daily news on a range of environmentally-related topics

http://www.climateark.org/

US Global Change Research Information Office

http://www.gcrio.org/index.shtml

Nation Science Foundation Global Change Research Programs

http://www.nsf.gov/geo/egch/

GRACE: The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

BBC News: New Gravity Map Released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1668872.stm

New Wind Chill Temperature Formula

http://ggweather.com/windchill.htm

National Geophysical Data Center

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

GEBCO Names of Undersea Features

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco/underseafeatures.html

The National Climatic Data Center

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

Exploratorium: Antarctica

http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/index.html

NASA: Project Starshine

http://www.azinet.com/starshine/

“More than 40 dead as volcano devastates Congolese City”

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/19/congo.volcano/index.html

Volcano World: University of North Dakota

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html

The Electronic Volcano

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html

Nyiragongo: Volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/nyiragongo.html

NASA

http://www.earth.nasa.gov/

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The University of the Arctic offers first online course

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021501u.htm

Snow Crystals

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

Avalanche Organization

http://www.avalanche.org/

PhysicsWeb- Avalanche Physics Ploughs Ahead

http://physicsweb.org/article/world/14/3/7

Utah Geological Survey

http://www.ugs.state.ut.us/utahgeo/geo/geohistory.htm

Utah History To Go: Geology of Utah

http://historytogo.utah.gov/geology.html

Space and Astronomy- Photographic libraries

http://www.photographiclibraries.com/stock_images/space_ast.asp

Aqua Satellite: a NASA Earth Science satellite mission to study the Earth’s Water Cycle

http://aqua.nasa.gov/

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020418aqua.html

The North Polecam: webcam captures four images daily

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4739871225.html

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

World Ocean Map Goes Online

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/05/oceans.atlas/index.html

The Facts and Figures section from the book from the Pew Center for Global Climate Change

http://www.pewclimate.org/book/

The Alfred Russell Wallace Page: father of biogeography

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/index1.htm

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/biogeog/

An Overview of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Verification Issues

http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/emissions_verification.cfm

Climate Talks in Marrakech - - COP 7: News and Information

http://www.pewclimate.org/cop7/index.cfm

National Environmental Data Index

http://www.nedi.gov/

The California Coastline Photo Project

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/4401100.htm

California Coastal Records Project

http://www1.californiacoastline.org/

Northern Lights

http://www.northern-lights.no/

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

http://www.sage.wisc.edu/

El Nino

http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/elNino/index_e.cfm

Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project

http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/pmip/

Geochemistry

http://esd.lbl.gov/GEO/index.html

Plate Tectonics- OSDS Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service

http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html

The Everglades Landscape Model

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/wrp/elm/index.html

Human Sprawl Covering the Planet

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/population/population.jsp?id=ns99992315

Nevada Biodiversity Atlas

http://134.197.55.92:90/

Nanogeoscience

http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ESD-nanogeoscience.html

Careers in Geography

Association of American Geographer – Careers Page

http://aag.org/Careers/Intro.html

Geo Job Source

http://www.geojobsource.com/homepage.htm

Jobs in Geography at Earthworks-Jobs.com
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/geog.htm

GIS Jobs Clearinghouse

http://www.gjc.org/

GeoSearch, Inc.

http://www.geosearch.com/

gisjobs.com

http://gisjobs.com/

Organizations Involved in Geography/Geographic Research and Education

Association of American Geographers - the main professional organization for geographers in the US. The web site has information on careers in geography, links to specialty groups related to geography's various subdisciplines, and other resources.
http://www.aag.org

National Council for Geographic Education -- the NCGE promotes the teaching of geography, especially at the K-12 level. A good resource for future social science teachers.
http://www.ncge.org/

National Geographic Society -- popular organization emphasizing the exploration and discovery aspect of geography
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
This site contains a page on "The Five Themes of Geography" which is similar, but not identical, to the introduction presented in the first two weeks of class: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/themes.html
National Geographic 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey
http://geosurvey.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/

Royal Geographic Society: Geography: An Education for Life

http://www.rgs.org/pdf/summarystatement10.pdf

Children’s Map Competition- created by the International Cartographic Assocations

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/children/

2003 Competition

http://www.icaci.org/en/competition.html

Links to Resources Related to Geography

GEOSOURCE - hundreds and hundreds of links to resources related to geography
http://www.library.uu.nl/geosource/index.html

Page of links on the UNI Geography Department site
http://www.uni.edu/geography/rwl.html

About.com's section on geography --- a wide variety of information related to geography
http://geography.about.com/

Geography Teaching Ideas

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/geography/contents.htm

MAGE (Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education)

http://www.macalester.edu/geography/mage/

MAGE’s guide to internet geographical resources

http://mage.geog.macalester.edu/websites.index/

University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire Geography Showcase

http://www.uwec.edu/geography/showcase.htm

Hammond World Atlas

http://www.hammondmap.com/

WebCT Geography Spotlight

http://webct.com/geography/home/

Internet Geography

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/

Humbul Humanities Hub, a service of the Resource Discovery Network

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/

American Memory Map Collections: 1500-2002

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/

Bubl Link: Search academic publications

http://link.bubl.ac.uk/linksearch

Newspaper Links

http://www.Newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm

Today’s Front Pages – Newseum

http://www.newseum.org/frontpages/index.htm

Geography page from the Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography

Tools for geographic analysis

SEDAC Data Viewer - the mapping program we used in class. You can create maps (at the state, county, and census tract level) of over 200 demographic variables from the 1990 U.S. Census.
http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/

Population Pyramid Site - interactive tool for creating population pyramids at the national level
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

Population Clock - provides up-to-date estimates of US and world populations.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

MapInfo - the creator of another GIS package
http://www.mapinfo.com

CIESIN: Demographic Data Cartogram, U.S. Census Data for GIS Users

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddcarto/

CIESIN: China Dimensions Data Collection

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/china/

USGS Geode- the data delivery system of the geologic discipline

http://geode.usgs.gov/

The Everglades Landscape Model

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/wrp/elm/index.html

National Geographic Map Machine