College Geography

Helpful links to cool GEO websites

SPACE STATION SIGHTINGS WEB PAGE LINK:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/shuttle_station/index.html

Weather info:

www.weather.com

www.noaa.gov

http://www.weather.gov/

http://spaceweather.com/

The Role of Place in the World, by Harm de Blij

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-deblij26-2008oct26,0,4839471,print.story

Brother Guy- Jesuit Astronomer:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Consolmagn

 Holy Fire ceremony in Jerusalem: 2009

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-jerusalem19-2009apr19,0,6710157.story

 Evidence of climate change in California:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-briefs29-2009aug29,0,5231544.story

 

"Our Extinction"-LA Times article on current extinction

11-30-09:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-corwin30-2009nov30,0,7760875.story

 

 Retreat of Glaciers-LA Times article 12-13-09:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-arnold13-2009dec13,0,6182358.story

 Photo Gallery of receding glaciers: LA Times, 12-13-09:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-galciers-gallery13-2009dec13,0,6591611.photogallery

 

Pacific Tsunami Watch Center in Hawaii

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/


  • Office at Chaffey College: C-115

    My office is in the new Chemistry building, on the south side of campus.

    Office hours are: Tuesdays: 12:30-2 PM,

    Thursdays: 12:30-3 PM

    Fridays: 12-1 PM. Other times as mutually convenient.

     

    I strongly urge you to make an appt. with me if you are planning to visit me in my office. 

  • Links to great books/authors:

  • Links to great geo. films/dvds:

    Out of Africa

    I Deamed of Africa

    The Last Emperor

    Amadeus

    How the Earth was Made

    Cosmos (C. Sagan)

    Dr. Zhivago

    The Blue Planet

    Hawaii

    Tale of Two Cities

    Byzantium

    Faces of Earth

     

     

Heroes of Geography/Science

Google these names:

Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Library of Alexandria, Dr. Wladimir Koppen, Dr. Alfred Wegener, Milutin Milankovitch, Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin, James Hutton, Sir Issac Newton, Wilson, Galileo, Torricelli,  Gabriel Fahrenheit, Anders Celsius, Lord Kelvin, Edwin Hubble, Hipparchus, Hypatia, Carl Sauer...

Carl Sagan author of COSMOS

http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345331354/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243392061&sr=8-2