World Regional Geography

Great Lakes Region:

See also: Upper Midwest - Grasslands and Prairies - Great Plains and The Cornbelt - See also HYDROSPHERE and LIMNOLOGY

• Beaches in the Great Lakes region
• Environment of the region
• EPA - Region 5 - Great Lakes Region - Environmental Education programs
• GLIS - Great Lakes Region - GLIS (Great Lakes Information System)
• Glossary - links to organizations and agreements (Wisconsin Sea Grant)
• Great Lakes Commission - home
• Great Lakes (student paper)
• Great Lakes and Regional Information - Michigan State University Dept. of Geography
• Great Lakes - Hydrology/Weather/Watersheds/Science
• Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio - GCLP Project - AAG
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Historical Interrelationships Between Population Settlement  and Farmland in the Conterminous United States, 1790 to  1992 - LUHNA Project
• Inland Sea Society - home
• Information Management Center - Great Lakes Center - CANADA
• Lake Michigan forum and resources
• Lake Superior Alliance - NWF (National Wildlife Federation)
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Limnological Research Center - University of Minnesota
• Links to resources on limnology
• LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Michigan United Conservation Clubs - Michigan Outdoors
• Minnesota Sea Grant Program - various resources on the Great Lakes
• Muskingum mines, Ohio  1973, 1985, 1990, 1997 - EarthShots/USGS
• Nature Conservancy Regional Program
• NOAA - Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
• North Temperate Lakes - LTER
• Places on the Great Lakes - ecosystems - directory
• Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory - University of Minnesota
• Save the Dunes Council - Northwest Indiana / Great Lakes
• Science Center - home - NBS
• Species Abstracts of Highly Disruptive Exotic Plants - USGS
• Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center - USGS - GIS - Aerial Photo server
• Upper Midwest GAP Analysis site
• USGS - Programs in the Great Lakes
• Visualizing the Great Lakes - US/EPA - GLNPO
   

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Mississippi / Missouri River Basin Region:

| Environment - Ecology - Education |
| Floods and Flood Hazards  |
| Flood of 1993 - Mississippi/Missouri River |
| GIS / Satellite Imagery/Photos - Remote Sensing of Rivers/Floods |
| Hydrology - Climate - Fisheries - Water Resources |
| Lower Mississippi Basin - Regional/Local Information |
| Mississippi / Missouri Drainage Basin - General |
| Organizations - Research Projects |
| Transportation, Travel, Tourism and History |
| Upper Mississippi Basin - Regional/Local Information |

Environment - Ecology - Education

• A Thousand Friends of Frogs - Center for Global Environmental Education
• America's Private Land: A Geography of Hope - article from NRI  1992 Land Inventory
• Birding along the Mississippi - links to sites and info on Sandhill Cranes, etc.
• Bureau of Land Management, Environmental Education homepage
• Center for Appalachian Studies - Appalachian State University - Boone, North Carolina
• Center for Duck Studies - home
• Center for Grassland Studies, University of Nebraska
• Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln - extensive resource list - Plains Links
• Center for Restoration Ecology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club US
• David C. Gosselin - Conservation and Survey Division - UNL (NESEN) - Nebraska Earth Science Education Network
• Dino Russ's Lair - Illinois Geological Survey, Dinosaur site - education site
• EEK! - Environmental Education for Kids - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Endangered and extinct species lists by region (USA)
• Environmental Contaminants Program - US Fish and Wildlife Service (Region 3)
• Environmental Impacts of Large Dams - article from IRN
• EPA - Oil Spill Prevention and Response - home - EPA/Oil Spill Program
• Froggy Page!! - from scientific to goofy!
• GAP Analysis - Upper Midwest  Home Page
• Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio - GCLP Project - AAG
• Great Lakes Region
• GREEN - Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
• HazDat - CDC/ATSDR's - Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry
• Highlands/Ogallala area of Kansas - GCLP Project/AAG
• Illinois State Geological Survey - and its Resources for Teaching Geology and Ask-a-Geologist program and GeoBits
• Inland Waterways Spill Response Mapping Project - hazards site - home and data products
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• LL Bean Outdoors Online Guide
• Midwestern Wetlands Flora -guide
• Mighty Media Educational network - educational site
• Minnesota Ornithologist's Union - home
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - and Glossary
• Missouri Botanical Garden and  Education resources
• Museums in the Classroom - Chicago Museums of Science
• Muskingum mines, Ohio  1973, 1985, 1990, 1997 - EarthShots/USGS
• Native Cultures of the Americas - Virtual Tour/Smithsonian Institution
• NOAA - Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division - home
• OPERATION MIGRATION - saving Whooping Cranes etc.
• Patuxent's Crane Information - FWS
• People and Climate Change on the Great Plains - teachers materials
• Platte River Endagered Species Partnership - Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
• Pollution Prevention Exchange - Enviro$en$e - EPA - one-stop site for all pollution and economics issues/data
• Project Wild - Gaithersburg, Maryland - and its Project Wild/Aquatic Resources
• Restoration and Reclamation Review - University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
• Restoring Nature - University of Wisconsin-Madison - interdisciplinary graduate seminar - Nancy Langston
• River Recovery Project - returning Peregrine Falcons to the Mississippi River
• Rocking Trout Homepage
• Sea Grant Non-Indigenous Species page - Purdue University - e.g. Zebra Mussel
• SEEK - Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge - Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
• Species Abstracts of Highly Disruptive Exotic Plants - USGS
• Upper Midwest GAP Analysis site
• USGS - National Wildlife Health Center - home
• Water Science for Schools - USGS - teaching resources
• Wetlands Losses in the United States - 1780s to 1980s
• Wetlands Loss and Degradation in the US - article
• Whooping Crane - National Wildlife Federation
• Wisconsin Cooperative Park Studies Unit - home

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Floods and Flood Hazards - General

• 1992 Chicago Underground Flood - USGS
• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• 2000 - Fargo Flood homepage - North Dakota State University
• All You ever wanted to know about River Forecasting....Mid-Atlantic River Forecast Center/Pennsylvania and NWS - National Weather Service
• Atlas of Environmental Risk and Hazards - University of South Carolina
• Bangladesh Floods - Relief-Web: see contacts for specific emergencies, disasters and so on. By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
• Boulder Creek: A Virtual Field Study, University of Colorado, David Hill
• Boulder Creek Flood Notebook - Boulder, Colorado - hazards
• Centers and Institutes Focusing on Hazards and Disasters - WSSPC
• Cincinnatti Floods - Local - The Enquirer - March 19, 1997
• Coping with Floods - site from North Dakota State University
• Dartmouth Flood Observatory - global archives, monitoring, GIS databases
• Disaster Relief - links to resources and Disaster Agencies - list
• Disaster Relief - All Stories - case studies in disaster work, coping
• EarthSAT - homepage - see FloodWatch -  and other themes
• Elba, Alabama - disaster case study - floods/1998
• Eye on the World - Our Violent Planet - hazards, risks, disasters
• FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency - see floods site
• FEMA - Factsheet: Floods and Flashfloods - article
• Flood of 1996 Photo Page - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• Flood Links - National Hazards Center - Univ of Colorado, Boulder
• Flood Myths -- Part One
• FLOOD! - NOVA Online module - excellent!
• Flood Plain Information Center - home
• Flood Zone - 1997 floods in Manitoba, Canada
• Floods - module by Newton's Apple teaching site
• Flood Tracking Chart for the Red River Basin - USGS
• Geologists Lifetime Listof Field sites
• Geology Field Trips site
• Great Flood of '96 - Oregon Trail site
• Hazards and Disasters - list of resources from the National Hazard Center, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
• Hazard Recovery and Reduction Center - Texas A & M University
• Hazard Research Laboratory, University of South Carolina - Global Change in Local Places Project - AAG
• Mississippi River Fieldtrip - Michigan Tech University - part of a course on hazards
• Natural Disaster Safety Tips - USAToday article
• NOAA - Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division - home
• Relief-Web: see contacts for specific emergencies, disasters and so on. By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
• ReliefWeb - Directory of Humanitarian Organizations - list
• Socioeconomic Aspects of Flooding in the US - Natural Hazards Center - resources/bibliography
• Spring Floods in Minnesota - pollution control
• Tropical Storm Agnes Floods - 25 years later - Susquehana River
• USGS - Fact Sheets on Flood Hazards - list
• USGS - Hazards Themes - see FLOODS
• USGS - Water Resources - realtime flood/surface water monitoring and many other resources
• Using Hydrologic Data to Forecast Floods - USGS - by By Charles W. Boning and Eugene A. Stallings, 1992
   

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Flood of 1993 - Mississippi/Missouri River

 
• 1993 Flood Uncovers Devonian Sea Floor - ancient fossil beds - University of Iowa - many photos
• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• ASF - Alaska SAR Facility - Synthetic Aperture Radar analysis of the 1993 floods
• Cape Girardeau, Missouri -  Mississippi River Flooding
• Dartmouth Flood Hazard Center - Image Maps & Photos - Great Floods of 1993 on the Mississippi
• Des Peres River flood images - 1993 - south St. Louis
• Des Moines Water Works - go to pictures of the flood of '93
• FEMA - Photos of the Great Flood - 1993
• Flood: Just Doing My Job - teacher's guide - NASA Observatorium article/resources on using GIS
• Flood: Just Doing My Job - article/essay - NASA Observatorium
• Great Floods of 1993 - by SAST (Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team) - USGS - Upper Mississippi River Basin Cartographic Products - GIS  analysis and Cartographic Products
• Great Flood of 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Data Studied - research report/article, several authors
• Hazards: Impact of the 1993 Floods in the Upper Mississippi River Basin - USGS Yearbook 1994.
• Illinois State Water Survey - Flood of 1993 data
• Landsat images - Moberly, Missouri - FLOOD of '93 - SAST Project
• Long Term Resourse Monitoring Program Water Elevation and Discharge Data
• Midwestern Climate Center - hydrologic data on Upper Mississippi / Missouri Basin
• River Des Peres in south St. Louis - flood images, etc.
• Roger's SkyPix - Flood of '93 - photos (Roger Edwards)
• St. Louis District-Water Control Management - Army Corps of Engineers river data
• USGS - map of major floods in the US - 1993 to 1997
• USGS - Stream gauging and flood forecasting network

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GIS / Satellite Imagery - Aerial Photos - Remote Sensing

        More GIS/RS and Aerial Photography/Mapping/Geography -related links
 

• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• ASF - Alaska SAR Facility - Synthetic Aperture Radar analysis of the 1993 floods
• Atlas of Environmental Risk and Hazards - University of South Carolina
• Dartmouth Flood Observatory - global archives, monitoring, GIS databases, etc.
• EarthSAT - see FloodWatch -  and other themes
• Earthshots of Environmental Change - USGS (choose areas within region)
• EMTC - see the Aerial Photo Server (Mississippi Basin & drainage system) and other hosted sites for spatial data
• EOS (Earth Observing System) - gateway to data / imagery
• EROS Data Center Sious Falls, South Dakota
• Flood-Just Doing My Job - teacher's guide - NASA Observatorium article/resources on using GIS
• FRENCH CREEK - GIS PAGE (example of a GIS analysis of a drainage system)
• GIAC - Geographic Information and Analysis Center - Montana State University, Bozeman
• Geographic Modeling Systems Lab, University of Illinois
• Geographic Services Section - Wisconsin/DNR.
• GIS/Remote Sensing Analysis and Monitoring - article - 1993 floods
• GIS map project on historical plat maps - Iowa
• Great Floods of 1993 - by SAST (Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team) - USGS - Upper Mississippi River Basin Cartographic Products - GIS  analysis and Cartographic Products
• Great Lakes - Hydrology/Weather/Watersheds/Science
• Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio - GCLP Project - AAG
• Highlands/Ogallala area of Kansas - GCLP Project/AAG
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Historical Interrelationships Between Population Settlement  and Farmland in the Conterminous United States, 1790 to  1992 - LUHNA Project
• Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - GIS products
• Inland Waterways Spill Response Mapping Project - hazards site - home and data products
• Integrated Population, Land Use and Emissions Data Project - CIESIN
• Kirk's Hotlist (Meteorological / Hydrological servers)
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Landsat TM Images near Glascow, Missouri - examples of analysis of flood scour and other geomorphological effects.
• LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Mapping for the Next Century - Iowa page
• Midwestern Climate Center - hydrologic data on Upper Mississippi / Missouri Basin
• Muskingum mines, Ohio  1973, 1985, 1990, 1997 - EarthShots/USGS
• NGPC - GIS Project - home - Nebraska
• Original Vegetation Map of Wisconsin - GIS Project/DNR - Land Cover Maps page
• Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns Along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory - University of Minnesota
• SAST (Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team) - USGS - Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri basins
• SAST - Flood Water Balance of 1993 - University of Texas, Austin-- Center for Research in Water Resources - by Pawel J. Mizgalewicz and David R. Maidment - GIS databases/coverages and other information
• Upper Midwest GAP Analysis site
• Upper Mississippi River Basin Flooding - 1993 - SAST Project
• Upper Midwest Data Library - USGS - GIS etc.
• Virtual Nebraska - many GIS and aerial photo resources

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Hydrology - Climate - Fisheries - Water Resources

See also HYDROSPHERE and LIMNOLOGY

 
• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• American Heritage Rivers network.
• American Rivers - environmental organization - many resources!!
• Bangladesh Floods - Relief-Web: see contacts for specific emergencies, disasters and so on. By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
• Boulder Creek: A Virtual Field Study, University of Colorado, David Hill
• Creating a Vision of Rivers for the 21st Century - speech/article by Daniel P. Beard, former head of the Bureau of Reclamation.
• Delaware Water Gap - module and teacher resource - Woodrow Wilson Foundation - ESI98
• Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - National Park Service
• Des Plaines Watershed - management plan (north of Chicago, Illinois)
• EMTC Fisheries Data - Mississippi basin
• Environmental Impacts of Large Dams - article from IRN
• EPA - Surf Your Watershed - index to data, info by state and watershed
• From Khatadin to the Sea - river module - Gulf of Maine Aquarium
• Fluvial Geomorphology Laboratory Exercise (From Westminster College of SLC
• Geological Structure and Drainage Systems - Smith College module
• Global Drainage Basins Database - The Global Drainage Basins
• Global Warming - information sources (political/CATO Institute).
• GREEN - Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
• High Plains Aquifer - USGS
• High Plains Climate Center - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Hydrosphere website - links to many resources
• Illinois State Water Supply - home
• Inland Waterways Spill Response Mapping Project - hazards site - home and data, etc.
• IRN - International Rivers Network - home - see also: Listservs on specific Rivers/Dam projects/issues - IRN (International Rivers Network). See also its list of Publications
• Kirk's Hotlist (Meteorological / Hydrological servers)
• Long Term Resourse Monitoring Program Water Elevation and Discharge Data
• Midwestern Climate Center - hydrologic data on Upper Mississippi / Missouri Basin
• MISSISSIPPI RIVER: THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY - Rose Lew - Environmental Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Science Integration.
• NAWQA - National Water Quality Assessment - Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Unit / Minnesota
• NOAA - NWS Office of Hydrology
• River and Watersheds Organizations - River Network
• River Basics - assorted resources from IRN - International Rivers Network
• St. Louis District-Water Control Management - Army Corps of Engineers river data
• United States Surface-Water Data Retrieval.
• US Central Plains and Global Warming - study by Duke University.
• USGS Real-Time Hydrologic Data
• USGS - Stream gauging and flood forecasting network
• USGS -- Water Resources of the United States
• USGS - National Water Information Center - see 800 number and others sources including the Water Information Dissemination Group by e-mail.
• UWIN - Water Finder - Universities Water Information Network - Wetlist
• WaterWiser - Links and directory of resources
• Water Resources - Environment Canada
• Water Science for Schools - USGS - teaching resources
• Water Science - Glossary of Terms - USGS
• Water Supply Outlook - US West
• Watersheds and Estuaries - American Oceans Campaign
• Water World - access to water-related information on the Internet - Ohio State University
• Waterways Experiment Station - US Army Corp of Engineers
• Wetlands Losses in the United States - 1780s to 1980s
• Wetlands Loss and Degradation in the US - article
• World Rivers Review - IRN
• World-Wide Water - UC Davis

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Lower Mississippi Basin - Regional/Local Information

• Cape Girardeau, Missouri -  Mississippi River Flooding
• Flood of 1996 Photo Page - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• Great Flood of 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Data Studied - research report/article, several authors - AGU (American Geophysical Union)
• Mississippi River Cape Girardeau Riverfront - many resources - Rose City/Delta Queen
• New Orleans Travel - Lower Mississippi

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Mississippi / Missouri Drainage Basin - General

        See also: Rocky Mountains/Yellowstone region - Upper Midwest - Grasslands and Prairies

• 19th Century Images of urban development on the Mississippi River
• BBS - Bulletin Board on the Mississippi
• Birding along the Mississippi - links to sites and info on Sandhill Cranes, etc.
• Captain Jimmy's Mississippi River System - all kinds of interesting things
• EMTC - see the Aerial Photo Server (Mississippi Basin & drainage system) and other hosted sites for spatial data
• Flood of 1996 Photo Page - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• Great Flood of 1993: Mississippi River Discharge Data Studied - research report/article, several authors - AGU (American Geophysical Union).
• Heavy Metals in the Mississippi River - article
• Inland River Bargin Industry site - TOWBIZ
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• NWS - National Weather Service - Mississippi Flood Warnings
• Mississippi Headwaters Board - home
• Mississippi River Cape Girardeau Riverfront - many resources - Rose City/Delta Queen
• MISSISSIPPI RIVER: THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY - Rose Lew - Environmental Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Science Integration.
• Mississippi Basin Ecoregion - Sierra Club - critical ecoregions program
• Mississippi River Basin Alliance - ECONET/IGC
• Mississippi River Fieldtrip - Michigan Tech University - part of a course on hazards
• Mississippi River - many resources
• Mississippi River Links - organized by category - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• Mississippi River Notes - several articles on various topics by Big River Newsletter
• Mississippi River Parkway Commission - home
• Mississippi River Teacher Resource Kit - and other resources - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• MRRC - Mississippi River Research Consortium - home
• My Mississippi River - photography, history, entertainment, guides, information, etc. - River Photography page
• Navigation Information Connection - Army Corps of Engineers
• Old Man River - virtual tours and historical info
• Random River Links - Mississippi River Homepage
• River Photography page
• Rivers Project - Southern Illinois University at  Edwardsville
• SAST - GIS and other databases - Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri basins
• St. Louis District-Water Control Management - Army Corps of Engineers river data
• Stump the Riverlorian - email/discussion group - where to ask questions on the Mississippi - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• United States Surface-Water Data Retrieval system

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Organizations - Research Projects

        See also: Rocky Mountains/Yellowstone region - Upper Midwest - Grasslands and Prairies

• American Heritage Rivers network - EPA
• American Rivers - environmental organization
• Association for Biodiversity Information - National Heritage Network - home
• Centers and Institutes Focusing on Hazards and Disasters - WSSPC
• CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Corp of Engineers - US Army
• Disaster Relief - links to resources and Disaster Agencies - list
• EMAN (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Program) - Canada
• EMTC - Environmental Management Technical Center - USGS / Onalaska, Wisconsin - (Upper Missouri / Mississippi Floodplain System)
• EPA - Region 5 - Great Lakes Region - Environmental Education programs
• EPA Region 6 - home (Texas, New Mexico....)
• EPA Region 9 - home Arizona/California
• Fish and Wildlife Service - US
• Flood Plain Information Center - home
• Gap Analysis - Geographic Approach to Planning for Biodiversity
• GREEN - Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
• Hazards and Disasters - list of resources from the National Hazard Center, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
• Hazard Recovery and Reduction Center - Texas A & M University
• Hazard Research Laboratory, University of South Carolina - Global Change in Local Places Project - AAG
• IAL - International Association of Limnogeology - University of Minnesota
• IANR - Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources - University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
• IRN - International Rivers Network
• LUHNA - Land Use History of North America Project
• Midcontinent Ecological Science Center Home Page
• Minnesota River Basin Agricultural  Resources and Research - University of Minnesota (soils, climate, water).
• Mississippi River Basin Alliance - ECONET/IGC
• Mississippi River Parkway Commission - home
• Mountain-Prairie area - US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region 6
• MRRC - Mississippi River Research Consortium - home
• NAID - North American Integration and Development Center - home
• NAMI - North American Institute - home
• National Drought Mitigation Center - UNL
• National Library for the Environment - NIE
• National Resources Inventory - USDA/NRCS
• Nature Conservancy Regional Program
• NAWQA - National Water Quality Assessment - Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Unit / Minnesota
• NIGEC - Great Plains Regional Center - National Institute for Global Environmental Change - UNL
• NPSC -- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• NRI - National Resource Inventory - Land Trends in the US
• Relief-Web: see contacts for specific emergencies, disasters and so on. By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
• ReliefWeb - Directory of Humanitarian Organizations - list
• Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory - University of Minnesota
• River and Watersheds Organizations - River Network
• SAST - GIS and other databases - Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri basins
• US Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 3.
• USDA - U.S. Dept of Agriculture
• USGS - National Wildlife Health Center - home
• USGS - Programs in the Great Lakes
• USGS - Upper Mississippi Science Center - home
• USGS -- Water Resources of the United States
• USGS - National Water Information Center - see 800 number and others sources including the Water Information Dissemination Group by e-mail.
• UWIN - Water Finder - Universities Water Information Network - Wetlist
• Water World - access to water-related information on the Internet - Ohio State University
• WES - Waterways Experiment Station - US Army Corp of Engineers
• WETNET - Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and other organizations

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Transportation, Travel, Tourism and History

        See also: Rocky Mountains/Yellowstone region - Upper Midwest - Grasslands and Prairies

• Aberdeen, Mississippi
• Alton, Illinois - The Big Bend -and its history, etc.
• Canals and Inland Waterways - West Virginia University
• Captain Jimmy's Mississippi River System - all kinds of interesting things
• Cyanotype Photographs of late 19th Century Mississippi River by Henry Bosse
• Discover! America's Great River Road - review of book and links to other sites
• Dubuque, Iowa - homepage
• Elk River, Minnesota - photo tour - Greater Elk River, Minnesota
• Galena - Jo Daviess County, Illinois
• Guidebooks to Mississippi River Region - from Heritage Press
• Illinois Tourism - home
• Inland River Bargin Industry site - TOWBIZ
• Inland Waterways Spill Response Mapping Project - hazards site - home and data, etc.
• La Crosse, Wisconsin - homepage
• Little Towboat Watcher's Guide - home
• Meet me in St. Louis - homepage
• Midwest Magic on the Mississippi River - travel guide/itinerary for 4-day tour
• Mississippi River Bridges - home
• Mississippi River - many resources
• Mississippi River Links - organized by category - Mississippi River Homepage (Heritage Press)
• Mormons on the Mississippi River - article and resources
• My Mississippi River - photography, history, entertainment, guides, information, etc. - River Photography page
• Nauvoo, Illinois - history of Mormons
• Navigation Information Connection - Army Corps of Engineers
• New Orleans - Travel page - Lower Mississippi
• NIC - Navigation Information Connection - US Army Corp of Engineers
• Old Man River - virtual tours and historical info
• Quad-Cities - Live Camera video shots along the river
• Quad-Cities USA homepage - Iowa/Illinois
• Steamboatin' vacations - article
• Travel Channel page
• Wabasha Minnesota - welcome
• Winding Rivers - Kickapoo Valley - southwest Wisconsin and Photo Gallery - Wildcat Mountain State Park and other resources
• Winona, Minnesota - home - "The Island City"

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Upper Mississippi Basin - Regional/Local Information

        See also: Rocky Mountains/Yellowstone region - Upper Midwest - Grasslands and Prairies

• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• 2000 - Fargo Flood - North Dakota State University
• Amish Country - Monroe/Vernon Counties - SW Wisconsin
• Badlands National Park - GORP
• Big River - Newsletter of the Upper Mississippi
• Big River Links - many resources
• Black Hills: stratigraphy and geology/geography (including the Badlands)
• Borchert Map Library - Univ of Minnesota
• Deep Portage Conservation Reserve - north central Minnesota
• Dept of Geography - University of Minnesota
• Des Plaines Watershed - management plan (north of Chicago, Illinois)
• EMTC - Environmental Management Technical Center - USGS (Upper Missouri / Mississippi Floodplain System)
• EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. - EarthShots/USGS
• Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio - GCLP Project - AAG
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition - home
• Ground Water in the Northern High Plains
• Headwaters Science Center - home
• Kickapoo Valley Reserve - SW Wisconsin
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Minnesota Mind Food - organization with access to many resources/organizations
• Minnesota River Basin Agricultural  Resources and Research - University of Minnesota (soils, climate, water).
• Mississippi River Headwaters Board - home - many resources
• Montana DNRC - Dept of Natural Resources and Conservation
• MontanaWeb - online
• Nature Conservancy of the Dakotas - newsletter
• NAWQA - National Water Quality Assessment - Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Unit / Minnesota
• North Dakota Natural Heritage Program - home
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, North Dakota
• Physical Geography Resources (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - many data sources as well as imagery
• Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory - University of Minnesota
• River Photographs - fishing!
• River Watch Project - Headwaters Board
• Rivers Council of Minnesota - home
• SAST - GIS and other databases - Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri basins
• South Dakota Geological Survey - home
• South Dakota - geology
• Ten Reasons Why the Mississippi River Headwaters is a Special Place - article
• UMRS - Upper Mississippi river System
• Upper Midwest Data Library - USGS - GIS
• Upper Midwest GAP Analysis site
• Upper Mississippi River Fishing Center - home
• Upper Mississippi River Interest Group - environmental organization
• Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge - US Fish and Wildlife Service
• USGS - Upper Mississippi Science Center - home
• Wisconsin Cooperative Park Studies Unit - home