Other States' Geography Associations & Alliances:

• California Geographical Society ["People, Places and Patterns: GEOGRAPHY Puts The Pieces Together"]

  founded in 1946, is the oldest and only statewide organization which seeks to enhance the understanding of geography and promote interaction among academic, applied geographers and members of the general public who have an interest in geography.

• California Geographical Survey "The Survey is a creation of Dr. William Bowen. Technical assistance is provided by Mr. Robert Provin. It operates for the benefit of the students and faculty of the California State University System, public and parochial school teachers, and the people of the State of California. It is the California Geographical Survey's intention to provide a variety of important geographic resources to the entire Internet community."

• California Geographic Alliance "Promoting geographic education and awareness among California teachers, students, and the public. Our programs help educators prepare students to embrace a diverse world, succeed in a global economy, and steward the planet's resources."

• Oregon Geographic Alliance

Government:

• Washington State Geographic Information Council (WAGIC) The WAGIC is recognized as the statewide body responsible for coordinating and facilitating the use and development of Washington State's geospatial information. This information, as well as public information about the Council--its purpose, activities, membership, and accomplishments--are to be found in these pages.

Other Institutions & Resources:

• Office of the Washington State Climatologist

• Washington State Department of Information Services
• Washington Associations And Organizations [Washington State Library]
• Geography Servers [Utrecht]
• Bowerman's Geography World [Resources]
• About.com/Geography [the old "Mining Co", Resource Page for Geography].
• Geography Departments (World-Wide) (University of Texas)
  • Resources for Geographers
• The GeographyWeb Project [David Hill]

  is creating Internet-based instructional materials that will be used to enhance several undergraduate geography courses across the multi-campus University of Colorado system. We believe the Internet has potential to improve educational practice and student achievement in geography. All lessons developed by the project are freely available to faculty and students.

• Geography of Cyberspace - Directory [Martin Dodge, UCLondon]
• Commission on Communication Networks and Telecommunications of the International Geographical Union
• Geography Institutes (yahoo)
• Search 500 Geography Institutes (links) worldwide! (Innsbruck, Austria)
• Graduate Programs in Geography
• Virtual Geography Department (VGD) Project, University of Texas

  "incorporates a wide range of instructional materials by a number of contributors from around the world. Modules may contain lecture notes, slide collections, classroom and laboratory exercises, ideas for term projects, sample datasets, virtual field trips, and examples of research not available elsewhere."

• Internet Search Engines:
  • GOOGLE: A Top-Rated Search Engine
  • All-the-Web [Currently 2,112,188,990 documents in Web catalog (Dec 2002)]
  • MetaCrawler: A General "Meta" Search Engine (i.e. a search engine using several other major search engines)
  • Other Search Engines and Directories

Geography and Geographers in the News:

• Geographic Education and Public Policy: An address by Harm de Blij [before the NCGE Opening Session, Gardner Auditorium, Massachusetts State House, Wednesday, November 3, l999]

• Beasts of imagination: Camels carry books to Kenyan children Dec.4, 1998, by Chege Mbitiru - Associated Press BULLA IFTIN, Kenya _ Three camels grazed nearby while 10-year-old Sahara Mouit Abdi sat in a tent reading about Kenyan geography -- from a book the animals had just delivered..."

• Where in the world are we? Seattle Times, Sunday, Jan. 11, 1998 by Seattle Times travel staff and the Chicago Tribune. To broaden readers' global horizons, we offer this year's Geography Challenge. [The Answers]

• The Thoughtful Traveler: 'I didn't know that!' Seattle Times, Jan.11, 1998; by Jim Molnar The connection between traveling and geography seems simple and obvious. Geography is the science of place, and traveling is the act of moving from one place to another. But that's a little too simple, really....

Literature and Other Resources