GGR 547 Mountain and Highland Geography

Some starting point internet resources

General mountain topics

• Mountain Studies Institute

http://www.mountainstudies.org

• The Mountain Institute

http://www.mountain.org

• Mountain Geography Specialty Group, AAG

http://www.ggy.uga.edu/mgsg

• The Mountain Forum

http://www.mtnforum.org

• International Mountain Society  and Mountain Research and Development

http://www.mrd-journal.org/about_mrd.htm

• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Arctic and Alpine Research

http://instaar.colorado.edu

• International Center for Integrated Mountain Development

http://www.icimod.org

• The Asia-Pacific Mountain Network

http://www.mtnforum.org/apmn/

• The International Year of Mountains

http://www.mountains2002.org

• The Hindu Kush Himalayan flow regimes from international  experimental and network data

http://www.hkh-friend.net.np/

• GIS for sustainable mountain development

http://www.icimod-gis.net/

• People and resource dynamics in mountain watersheds of the Hindu Kush - Himalayas

http://www.pardyp.org/

• Celebrating mountain women conference 2002

http://www.mountainwomen.net/

• Ives, J.D., Along a steep pathway,

http://www.ourplanet.com/txtversn/131/ives.html

• Ives and Messerli, 1999 The Himalayan Dilemma

http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80a02e/80A02E00.htm#Contents

• The Alpine Convention

http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/library/eurco91a.htm

• FAO Mountain Division

http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=1000&sitetreeId=1394&langId=1&geoId=0

Peripheral and integral topics to mountain studies

• UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program

http://www.unesco.org/mab/

• Sovereignty International - USA-UN Man and Biosphere & World Heritage Sites

http://www.sovereignty.net/p/land/mapmabwh.htm

• UN Land Grab

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a50f8e437d0.htm

• Earth (Rio) Summit

http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html

• An on-line physical geography text

http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/

• This site has a number of links to physical geography and earth science materials: http://personal.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm

• A presentation on plate tectonics:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html#anchor19978839

• A collection of global and regional scale landform images from space:

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC OCS/geomorphology/GEO_HOME_PAGE.ht 

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• Steve Reynolds (ASU Geology professor) 3-D geological structure images and links to other sites: http://reynolds.asu.edu/

• An excellent collection of real-time weather products:

http://weather.unisys.com

• South Asian floods

http://www.southasianfloods.org/

• A portal to avalanche topics:

http://www.avalanche.org

• The Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies (a relatively new organization located in Silverton)

http://www.snowstudies.org

• The National Snow and Ice Data Center (great snow and ice resources)

http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu