Geography & Earth Sciences: Websites

Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.

Images, stories, and discoveries about the environment, Earth systems, and climate from NASA research.

Originally established in 1987 to provide the USGS with accurate and cloud-free photographs for creating and revising USA topographic maps. These images now serve as an archive that documents historic land surface and vegetation conditions.

Formerly the National Climatic Data Center, a site where you can access the largest archive of climate data in the world.

This is a component of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Their mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous tropical weather and by increasing understanding of these hazards.

Resources providing the science and technology needed to support the sound management and conservation of our Nation's biological resources.

Resources and research to monitor and assess a wide range of natural hazards for policymakers and the public.

Searchable lists of titles for bulletins,professional papers, circulars, water-supply papers, and thematic maps back to 1948.

Database of satellite images that are useful to study natural resource management, national hazards mitigation, and environmental changes over time.

Contributes to the advancement of geography. Members share interests in the theory, methods, and practice of geography, which they cultivate through the AAG's Annual Meeting and in scholarly journals.

The oldest organization in the United States focused on geography. Drives innovative programming that helps put geography to work in the 21st century.

Provides online access to extensive datasets covering the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.

Information and research at the National Earthquake Information Center located in Golden, CO.

Research and data about climate, atmospheric chemistry, the sun, pollution and supercomputing.

Online versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series.

The Mineralogy Database was last updated in 2014 and it contains 4,714 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library.

Buy print versions of custom topographic maps or print your own.

Pick a USGS topographic map by location and date to download in multiple formats including KMZ. Print specific topo maps.