This annotated list of WWW resources describes sites that are dedicated to some aspect of hazards research.  Some are intended for hazards management professinoals; others are geared towards researchers, and some toward the general public.  Most of the sites listed here provide links to related sites.  This bibliography was originally compiled during July 1996 and was updated in July 1998.  Some sites improve over time, others vanish, so it is advisable to check these sites out before using them in the class room.  Highly recommended sites are marked with **.

Select one of the following subject links:

• Hazards -- General
• Earthquakes and Other Geophysical Hazards
• Health Disasters/Emergencies
• Technological Hazards
• Drought
• Atmospheric/Hydrologic Hazards
• Disaster Response
• Environmental/Demographic Data, NGOs

• WWW Virtual Library -- Hazards**

http://life.csu.edu.au/hazards/library.html
The WWW Virtual Library provides a vast number of links to all sorts of hazard-related sites.  This is an excellent place to begin hazard research.
 
• University of Wisconsin -- Madison Disaster Management Center

http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/dmc/
This site provides information about a number of self-study courses in disaster mitigation and management.
 
• Disaster Management and Mitigation Group -- Oak Ridge

http://stargate.ornl.gov/StarGate/DMMG/dmmg.html
The DMMG group conducts research on disaster management and mitigation strategies. They offer a series of courses for emergency management professionals. The site provides links to other related areas of interest.

• Disaster Research Center -- University of Delaware

http://www.udel.edu/DRC
The center provides a large list of available publications, most designed for hazard professionals, as well as general information about hazard research.
 
• International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/idndr
This site is still under development, but when complete will include global hazard maps, international information about hazard mitigation and research, and links to other hazard-related sites.
 
• Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado -- Boulder**

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/
The center is a clearinghouse for hazard information for both the United States and the world.  The site has issues of the center’s newsletter, a number of publications, and a large number of links to related sites.
 
• Federal Emergency Management Agency

http://www.fema.gov/
This site has been rated as one of the top 5% on the Internet. There is extensive information about the role of FEMA, about disaster management and mitigation, and recent and current FEMA efforts.
 
• Hazards Research Lab -- University of South Carolina

http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/hrl
The hazards lab at the University of South Carolina is dedicated to using geographic information processing techniques for the study and analysis of hazards. The site provides information about the center as well as links to other hazard-related sites.
 
• Universities Water Information Network

http://www.uwin.siu.edu
If you are looking at water-related hazards, try this site and search for the topic or location that interests you via the site’s search option.
 
• The Institute of Emergency Administration and Planning

http://www.ias.unt.edu/~eadp
 
• Natural Disaster Reference Database

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd
Speed up your bibliographic searches on any natural disaster at this site. Once you choose a type of disaster from its subject database, you will go on to gopher menus with over 1000 references on the subjects, with abstracts, keywords, and information on how to obtain the paper included.
 
• Canada Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange

http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/~anderson/
Accessible in French and English, this Simon Fraser University site provides linkages to agencies, groups, cities, etc. involved in Canada’s emergency preparedness activities. Also notable is the site’s access to all kinds of information about the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and its linkage to SFU’s HazardNet homepage, currently still under construction, which is a good starting point to research specific types of hazards.

Earthquakes and Other Geophysical Hazards

• USGS Geological Survey**

http://www.usgs.gov
This is the USGS Homepage. Go via USGS by Theme to information on hazards, natural resources, and the environment. Each of these options goes on to hazard and/or global change related topics. For example, Resources leads to Energy, which in turn leads to issues related to the radon hazard and a nice US map of radon potential.
 
• USGS National Earthquake Information Center

http://www.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/neic/title.html
This site provides a list of the products offered by the National Earthquake Information Center.  A good source for ordering classroom materials for physical geography.
 
• University of Nevada-Reno Seismological Laboratory

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/index.html
Plentiful information about earthquakes including hazard maps for much of the United States.  There is also a large amount of general information about everything from plate tectonics to earthquake building codes.
 
• National Geophysical Data Center**

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
This site provides an excellent starting point for research. There are extensive links to all sub-fields of earth science and a link to hazards research.

• Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium

http://www.cusec.org
The Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium is a group of emergency management organizations from six central U.S. states: Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri.  The site contains information about the organization, as well as links to sites maintained by member organizations. It emphasizes disaster preparedness and emergency management.
 
• Southern California Earthquake Center

http://www.scec.org
The Southern California Earthquake Center is dedicated to earthquake forecasting in Southern California. The site provides a lots of information about the center, and some information about  seismic activity in the region, but has few links to other sites.
 
• National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering

http://nisee.ce.berkeley.edu
The Center is home to some of the world’s foremost experts in earthquake hazard mitigation through engineering. The site provides ample information about earthquake engineering. It also contains a data bank of over 5,000 earthquake slides. The slides can be viewed in digital form, or purchased for $2.00 each.
 
• Seismosurfing

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
Over 100 links to earthquake related sites are provided here. This is a good place to begin searching for earthquake information.
 
• USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/IndexList/framework.html#top
What don’t you know about volcanoes yet? Go to this site, search through an alphabetically accessible index, and read up on it. Descriptions and explanations are taken from up-to-date research article, but very readable. Textbook-like.
 
• National Landslide Information Center

http://gldage.cr.usgs.gov/html_files/nlicsun.html
Landslide information from the general to the specific, event reports, slides, publications, etc.
 
• Tsunamis**

http://tsunami.ce.washington.edu/tsunami/counter.acgi?view
The tsunami site contains lots of information including the physics of tsunamis, a survey of the human impact of the great waves, and links to related sites.
 
• Science of Tsunami Hazards

http://www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/STH
The International Journal of the Tsunami Society’s web site with access to the Table of Contents and abstracts of current and past issues. Also linkages to some two dozen other tsunami sites.
 
• Global Earthquake Report**

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakexe/quakes
This site is a worldwide earthquake locator. It lists all the recent earthquakes and then allows the viewer to see the location of the quake on a map of the appropriate region.
 
• Volcano World -- University of North Dakota**

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
This has been rated as one of the top 5% of sites on the Internet.  Amazing photographs, plenty of maps, up-to-date information, and lots of related information.
 
• Electronic Volcano

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~volcano/
Another excellent volcano site. Includes an introduction in six different languages. This site contains information both for the amateur and for the professional vulcanologist.
 

Health Disasters/Emergencies

• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/
See Centers for Disease Control.

• Centers for Disease Control

http://www.cdc.gov
This is the homepage for the Centers for Disease Control. It leads to information about disease and epidemics from around the world. From here you have access to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
 
• Pan American Health Organization

http://www.paho.org/
This site provides information about health-related issues in the Americas.  It provides links to health organizations in most Central and South American countries.
 
• World Health Organization

http://www.who.ch/
This site contains general information about the W.H.O. which can be found via a searchable interface. There is also up-to-date information about disease outbreaks.

• Red Cross/Red Crescent

http://www.ifrc.org
The disaster relief organization’s homepage provides information about relief efforts from around the world. There are also ample links to other disaster-related sites.
 
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080
Rated one of the top sites on the Internet, the site features a search engine that helps find specific information regarding toxic chemicals and disease.

• Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection

http://www.rivm.nl/
This site provides information on global change, public health and environmental research undertaken at the RIVM. At present their list of publications indicates the breadth of information available from them.

Technological Hazards

• Pollution Mapping Projects and Toxic Databases

http://www.envirolink.org/issues/pollution-map/index.html
Toxic pollution maps for a number of world regions, plus lots of information about hazardous waste.
 
• Illinois Waste Management and Research Center

http://www.hazard.uiuc.edu/wmrc
The Center provides a good deal of information about hazardous waste. The site includes information on pollution prevention and pollution clean-up efforts.
 

Drought

• National Drought Mitigation Center**

http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc
The National Drought Mitigation Center is dedicated to reducing societal vulnerability to drought. The site contains information about drought climatology, drought mitigation, and up-to-date information on current and emerging droughts. There are also links to related sites.
 

Atmospheric/Hydrologic Hazards

• National Lightning Safety Institute

http://www.lightningsafety.com
Information about lightning safety, as well as lightning hazards. The site includes some dramatic images of lightning strikes.

• NOAA**

http://www.hpcc.noaa.gov
The homepage for NOAA provides information about the agency and links to related sub-agencies. Including the National Climatic Data Center and National Oceanographic Data Center which are also directly accessible at the following addresses.
 
• National Climatic Data Center

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

• National Oceanographic Data Center

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
 
• National Hurricane Center**

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
The Hurricane Center’s homepage contains images of many recent hurricanes, as well as storm tracks. Other graphics include storm probability, and historic hurricane tracks.
 
• Global Flood Monitoring and Analysis Project**

http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/geog/floods/Index.html
This site has satellite images of recent floods, graphics showing  global flood damage, and a wealth of other information on the subject.
 

Disaster Response

• National Center for Urban Search and Rescue

http://www.niusr.org
This site offers information on emergency preparedness, emergency response, and disaster relief  -- all US-oriented. Interesting for its Vision 2000 statement, and links to emergency preparedness sites of cities located in hazardous areas (e.g., San Francisco).
 

Environmental/Demographic Data, NGOs

• CIESIN World Data

http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/dataset-home.html
This site provides a vast amount of information on the human dimensions of global change. The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network’s mission is to make available existing data to other researchers, decision makers, educators and the public, to establish easy access to data, set up linkages to related data sources, and to attempt integration between socioeconomic and natural scientific data in order to assist in environmental decision making. There are interactive maps, searchable data sets, and an enormous amount of related information for both human and physical geography. Socioeconomic data are available through CIESIN’s Socioeconomic Data and Application Center (SEDAC).
 
• The Environmental Magazine

http://www.emagazine.com
This online environmental magazine, conceived in the “greenhouse summer” of 1988, provides background information to many global change, environmental, human health, and hazard issues, for example an article on Mad Cow disease in its July/August 96 issue. Thus it is relatively up-to-date with hazards in the news at any one point in time.

• Econet

http://www.econet.apc.org/econet/
Econet is intended to provide connections for groups and individuals working on environmental issues. The site provides news from hundreds of conferences and reports.
 
• EcoWeb

http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/EcoWeb.html
The EcoWeb at the University of Virginia provides a good deal of information about environmental and social issues. It is a jumping board to issues ranging from AIDS to indigenous peoples to the German Greens and peace activist groups.

• Envirolink Network

http://www.envirolink.org
A nicely designed website that is truly what its name promises: a node linking environmental websites. It’s organized around the four elements, Air, Fire, Water and Earth, plus an extra category for Flora and Fauna, and is great on pollution and some global change issues.

• Environmental News Network

http://www.enn.com
The CNN of the environment! Daily news about all kinds of environmental issues. An easy way to find out what’s going on, and to stay tuned in on specific issues.

• Greenpeace International

http://www.greenpeace.org/
Greenpeace’s homepage provides access to archival data and to updates on its various national and international campaigns on toxics, nuclear, atmospheric, and biodiversity issues.
 
• The Nature Conservancy

http://www.tnc.org
This site is The Nature Conservancy’s homepage and gives you access to information about its activities. If you do a keyword search for “hazard” it lists any hazard issue TNC is involved in.

• Rainforest Action Network

http://www.ran.org
Most up to date on all rainforest-related issues, activism, networks. Good background information on the environmental and socio-economic situation in tropical countries.