College Geography

How to be a successful college student:

https://www.stukent.com/successful-college-student/

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

Click on the link below to see when the space station will be over your city.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_States&region=California

Careers in Geography:

http://geography.about.com/od/careersingeography/ 

What can I do with a degree in Geography?

http://www.aag.org/cs/careers

http://www.aag.org/galleries/jobs-careers-files/Careers_resources_overview_02192013.pdf

http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/careers-advice/what-can-you-do-geography-degree

CIA/Intelligence jobs for Geography majors:

https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/analytical

NSA:

https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/nsa/

Foreign Service:

https://careers.state.gov/work/foreign-service/officer/#

State Department jobs:

https://careers.state.gov/

Weather info:

www.weather.com

www.noaa.gov

http://www.weather.gov/

http://spaceweather.com/

https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

KABC 7 TV

Dallas Raines and Co.

http://abc7.com/weather/

World population projections through 2100:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-16/decline-in-world-fertility-rates-lowers-risks-of-mass-starvation

Possible world-wide collapse of insects by 2100:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320718313636

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/insect-population-decline-extinction_us_5c611921e4b0f9e1b17f097d 

Cool geo website for kids and others:

http://www.cheapoair.com/guides/world-geography-kids

https://usinsuranceagents.com/car-maps-review   

 HOW OLD IS YOUR GLOBE?

http://www.replogleglobes.com/howOldIsYourGlobe.php 

 Video clip of volcanoes-12 minutes long.

CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast July, 2014

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/volcanoes-natures-ticking-time-bombs-3/  

Pacific Tsunami Watch Center in Hawaii

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

Mt. Athos: Monastic Republic in Greece: CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mt-athos-part-1/ 

Part 2 here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mt-athos-part-2/ 

Red Flag Over Tibet (Frontline)- Destruction of Tibet by Communist China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeX6l7rX8RE

Copts in Egypt-video clip CBS, 2014

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-coptic-christians-of-egypt-2/

 Soviet persecution of religion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEftJc31ZB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHMHPQY3BmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS15xN0tNtM

Use Google  to find a map that meets your needs.

Type in "Blank map of ___" and press enter.

There are many maps you can scroll through.

Heroes of Geography/Science

Google these names:

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

 The film "Agora"  is about Hypatia, the last pagan scientist of the Library of Alexandria, c. 380 AD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50zEun07b4

 Hypatia-Head of the Library of Alexandria c. 380 AD

HIM Don Agustin I, Emperor of Mexico. First Mexican Empire.

c. 1822

 HIM Emperor Maximilian of Mexico

c. 1865. Second Mexican Empire.

 

Dr. Alfred Wegener

"Continental Drift" theory

1880-1930

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Hawaii's last Queen Liliuokalani, c. 1892.