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The Map Collection contains numerous state, federal, and international thematic maps, atlases and guides in the environmental and geosciences, including soil surveys, land use, tectonics, geology, hydrology, glaciology, seismology, mineralogy, climatology, biogeography, ecosystems, agriculture, and forestry.

USGS geologic and hydrologic quadrangles are located in the Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library (ISEL).
http://www.library.umass.edu/libraries/intscien.html

See also the Geosciences research guide.  Libraries, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/geosciences/

Additional Environmental and Geoscience maps resources:

Boston Subsurface Project.  Explores the relationship between Boston history, soil, and buildings, since 1775,. Tufts University
http://bostonsoil.atech.tufts.edu/

Climate System Research Center. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
http://www.geo.umass. /climate/

Connecticut River Homepage. Ed Klekowski and Libby Klekowski, University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Biology, history and geology of New England’s longest river.
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/

Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst home
http://www.geo.umass.edu/
and research sites
http://www.geo.umass.edu/newsite/research/index.html

Dynamic Digital Maps. Christopher D. Condit, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Geoscience thematic maps with linked photo icons, map symbols, and site images.
http://ddm.geo.umass.edu/

Earth Science Information Office.  University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Provides various types of maps and other cartographic information, including aerial photographs and space images available from federal, state, and local governmental agencies, and from private sources.

http://www.umass.edu/tei/esio/

Earthshots.  USGS satellite images of environmental Change.
http://earthshots.usgs.gov/tableofcontents

Eastern Region Geography. USGS
http://mac.usgs.gov/

Electronic Atlas of the Cape Cod Environment.  Woods Hole Research Center.
http://www.whrc.org/capecod/index.htm

Environmental Institute.  University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Extensive links to local, state, federal, and international environmental centers, institutes and organizations.
http://www.umass.edu/tei/TEI_2005/institutes.html

Envirolink. Online environmental resources.
http://www.envirolink.org/

Geography.  USGS.
http://geography.usgs.gov/

Geological Surveys. University of Mainz.  Links to international geological surveys.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoSurv.html

Geology.  Energy and mineral resources, volcanoes, landslides, earthquakes, geomagnetism, global science networks, landscape, astrogeology, geologic mapping, earth science dynamics, coastal and marine geology.  Real time hazard information, geologic data explorer.  USGS
http://geology.usgs.gov/

Major Drainage Basins.  USGS Massachusetts Rhode Island Water Science Center
http://ma.water.usgs.gov/basins/default.htm

Massachusetts Resource Identification Project (MRIP). GIS based natural resource identification and preservation project.
http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mrip.htm

Massachusetts Wildlife Pond Maps
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfw_pond.htm

Mass Wildlife.  Wildlife Management Area Map.
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfw_cd.htm

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.noaa.gov/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Space Administration (NOAA)
http://www.noaa.gov/

National Geologic Map Database.  USGS.  Geology, hazards, earth resrources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and maringe geology.
http://ngmdb.usgs.gov

National Geomagnetism Program.  USGS.
http://geomag.usgs.gov/

National Geophysical Data Center.  NOAA.  Earth observations from space, space weather and solar events, bathymetry and global relief, marine geology and geophysics, natural hazards, geomagnetic models and data.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Soil surveys and natural disaster response maps.  United States Department of Agriculture.
http://soils.usda.gov/

Neararctica.  Paleogeography and plate tectonics
http://www.nearctica.com/paleo/tectonic.htm

Office of Geographic Information and Analysis.  University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://www.umass.edu/tei/ogia/

Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist:  Extensive geoscience map links
 http://www.geo.umass.edu/newsite/stategeologist/index.html

Renewable Energy Potential.  Maps of solar, wind, biomass resources in Massachusetts and New England.
http://www.masstech.org/cleanenergy/massenvironment/potential.htm

Resource Mapping; Land Information Systems.  University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Natural Resources Conservation.  Digital data for use within a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using aerial photography and other remotely sense images to update land use/land cover maps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well as other geographic areas.
http://www.umass.edu/forwild/rmapping/Home%20Page/index.html

A Tapestry of Time and Terrain; the union of two maps, geology and topography.  USGS.
http://tapestry.usgs.gov/

UN Environmental Program Maps and Graphics
http://maps.grida.no/

USGS Image Collections.
http://www.usgs.gov/science/science.php?type=theme&term=575

UN Atlas of the Oceans.
http://www.oceansatlas.com/index.jsp

Woods Hole Science Center. Marine studies maps for Massachusetts coast and ocean areas.
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov