SW200 Geographic Inquiry in the Southwest

GIS DATA & LINKS

Block 6, 2002

Hillary Hamann
Office: Hulbert Center
hhamann@coloradocollege.edu
telephone: x 6333

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SYLLABUS GRADING  MAPS & IMAGES STUDENT PROJECTS

 

  GIS DATA LINKS

New Mexico:

» http://www.nm.blm.gov/www/nmso/nm_952/geo_sci/blm_nm_geosciences.htm New Mexico Spatial data

» http://water.usgs.gov/nm/nwis/uv?08276500  Real time river discharge data for the Rio Grande below Taos Junction (near Velarde, NM)

» http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri934076/region13.html Historic discharge data; link to "08276500 RIO GRANDE BELOW TAOS JUNCTION BRIDGE NR TAOS,NM"

» http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nmtaos  Historic climate data for Taos, NM from 1961 or go to http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmnm.html for additional climate record sites in NM

»http://www.nm.blm.gov/www/nmso/grazing_standards/grazing_standards.html New Mexico grazing standards and guidelines

» http://www.nm.blm.gov/www/tafo/rio_grande_plan/rio_grande_plan.html Final plan for the Rio Grande corridor in Northern NM.

General:

» http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html This is one of the largest resources I've found on the web...(David Pilz)

» http://www.land.state.az.us/alris/htmls/data2.html  (David Lazerwitz)

» http://www.csu.org/water/res_water.html
» http://www.csu.org/surfrpt_front.pdf
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http://www.csu.org/grndrpt_front.pdf  (Tracy Clark & Andrea Martinez)

» http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/tools/ This website is from the National Resources Conservation Service.  This page contains links to Web sites with GIS-related information.
» http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/index/ This page is an index of facts, maps and figures on the "State of the Land."  Here, there are direct links to GIS maps for various subjects. (Erin Cushing)

» http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/ They have links to information about bodies of water and any uses of water that you could want to know about. (Trista Vick)

» http://www.ocs.orst.edu/prism/prism_products.html
» http://www.directionsmag.com/datacenter/Default.asp
» http://www.gisdatadepot.com/
  These sights seem pretty good.  The last one especially. (Kris Johnson)

» http://www.americansouthwest.net  National Park info (Joel Petrick)

» http://www.nationalatlas.gov (Tobin Guthrie)

» http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob  US Census Geographic boundary files and metadata
» http://factfinder.census.gov Census' online search tool for demographic data; GCT's (Geographic Comparison Tables) usually contain fields that can be joined or related to a Boundary file.
» http://www.census.gov/population/www/index.html "Historical" (1990) census data (population and housing counts)
» http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Projects/FTP.htm USGS National 
Gap Analysis Program, a  good starting point for land use and land cover data.
» http://www.gisdatadepot.com GIS Data Depot
» http://www.dola.state.co.us/oem/cartography/GISData.htm Colorado Division of Local Government Cartography/GIS
» http://www.dot.state.co.us/TransData/GIS Colorado Department of Transportation
» http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html Guide to mostly on-line and free US Geospatial and attribute data

 

 

 

GIS Jobs:

GIS Technicians for the National Park Service, Summer 2002
Applications due March 29, 2002:  Announcement