ESRI Press Dictionary of GIS Terminology
Heather Kennedy, ed. 2001
Location: stacks G70.212 .E87
Remote
Sensing Glossary--Online
From the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
Encyclopedia
of Energy Technology and the Environment.
Attilio Bisio and Sharon Boots, ed. 1995
Location: ref TJ163.235 .E53
Facts
on File Dictionary of Environmental Sciences
Bruce Wyman and L. Harold Stevenson, ed. 2001
Location: ref TD9 .W95
International
GIS Dictionary
Rachel McDonnell and Karen Kemp, ed. 1995
Location: ref G70.212 .M330
Encyclopedia
of Environmental Issues
Craig W. Allin, ed. 2000
Location: ref GE10 .E52
To get to the list of databases, go to The University Libraries home page, then click on Databases. Click on the starting letter of the database or click on Geography from the department name list.
Try a variety of subject headings for the same concept.
REMEMBER: To get to the full text of the journal article you must go through the Library's web pages. We have paid for access to the journals. You cannot go to the publisher's page to get an article.
These databases index a range of publications from popular to scholarly. If the database allows this, consider checking the box limiting a search to scholarly or refereed journals.
Considerable relevant information is available in online and print publications from the Dept. of the Interior, EPA, the Census Bureau and so on.
Geographic
Information from the U.S. Government
Code
of Federal Regulations
Once a law is passed a specific agency is charged with establishing the regulations
to enforce it. The CFR contains the general and permanent rules published
in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal
Government such as the EPA, NOAA, and the Fish and Wildlife Service. It is
divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to federal regulation.
North Carolina Information
Geographic
Data
Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance
Water Supply Watershed Protection Program
North Carolina Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources
LandView
III
An easy-to-learn mapping system that creates maps showing 1990 Census population
and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data on super fund and hazardous
waste sites for local communities.
Remote
Sensing Tutorials and Websites
A compilation of links to remote sensing tutorials for all educational
levels and websites including glossaries.
Water
Resources Research Institute
This website displays summaries of reports from NC State University
WRRI. Many of the reports cover water quality problems in North Carolina.
Reports are available for a few dollars each from NCSU or the Library may
be able to acquire a copy on Interlibrary Loan.
NCSU/NCA&T
Cooperative Extension
Links to state water quality information provided by the Cooperative
Extension service. Note some of the reports under the heading "Pollution."
Water
Quality and Waste Management
Short reports on chemicals and other pollutants in the State's water
supply.
Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
This shows the 2003 report released concerning a survey of childhood
cancers and birth defects at Camp Lejeune, possibly as a result of chemicals
which contaminated the well water. The survey covers 12,600 children born
between 1968 and 1985.
Author Info: Nancy Ryckman
