H-Cal: Environment, Geography, Geology

Environment | Geography | Geology

Environment

CERES: (California Environmental Resource Evaluation System) An information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments.
Information Center for the Environment: A cooperative facility at UC Davis supporting projects of an interdepartmental faculty. Contains links to extensive environmental and geographic information, much of it concerned with California.
Alternative Futures for the Region of Camp Pendleton, California: Provides links to geographic and other resources related to the Biodiversity Research Consortium's study of region of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. These links are extensive and detailed (Ceres is one of several similar links).
Northern California Geologic Hazard: A Bibliographic Database of Geologic Hazards Research in Northern and Central California.
California State Parks: Links to information on the various parks in California.
Meteorology 356- California Weather Event: Course given at SFSU by Dr. John Monteverdi. Contains further links to detailed meteorological phenomena in California.

California maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
California Geographical Survey: The Internet Library of the Department of Geography at California State University Northridge. Contains maps, surveys and links to information related to geography and populations.
Digital Atlas of California: A continuing public education project of Professor William Bowen and the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge. Contains a California Overview and regional surveys, all of which provide mapped information on such subjects as citizenship and population and race.
Map Libraries: an index of map libraries available on the web, maintained by the John R. Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota.
California and Neveda Road Atlas: Part of the Electronic Map Library maintained by California State University Northridge's Department of Geography.
The Geo-Images Project, maintained by the Geography Department at UC Berkeley, has photographs of California.
Patterns on the Land is a virtual exhibit by the Golden State Museum.

Caltech's Geology of California page has information on the department's library holdings and extensive links to geological resources on the internet.
The California Division of Mines and Geology page has information on everything from the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act of 1972 to serpentine, the state rock.
Wondering about natural oil and gas seeps in California? Looking for information on the Mojave Preserve? The USGS's page on California geology has links to these and other resources.
The Urban Seismology in the San Francisco Bay Area project of the USGS (staffed in part by volunteers) is charting seismological activity in the Bay Area, and includes maps of various arrays in the region.
The Bay Area Geology page of the Associated Bay Area Governments has links to information on weather, seismic activity, dam failure inundation, and other topics.
The Northern California Earthquake Data Center at UC Berkeley has information on seismic activity in the region and links to related internet resources. Part of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory site.
UC Davis Department of Geology has links to a number of internet resources on geology in California.
Memento Mori: A web interface to the earth. It displays streaming seismographic data measured continuously from a site near the Hayward Fault above University of California at Berkeley.