Relevant Websites for Geographers
Careers:
dev-zone: has over 8388 online resources including links to websites, organisations, jobs, articles, reports, resources and ways you can take action to create a just world.
dmoz open directory: links to world-wide environmental job directories
Melbourne Environmental Jobs Network: including the first guide to environmental careers in Australia
NRM Jobs: job vacancies and other opportunities in the environment, water and natural resource management field in Australia and New Zealand
Resources:
Key resources via the University library
Environet Environmental Education Database
Geosource is a general geography/geoscience directory which offers well maintained listings of some 4620 web resources, including: over 950 academic journal sites, hundreds of recent and forthcoming conferences, probably the web's largest and most up to date collection of geo-conferences, hundreds of national and international professional geo-organisations, and a comprehensive listing of national statistical agencies worldwide and many more.
Oddens' Bookmarks is an award-winning web directory for cartography and mapping, offering over 20000 well organised links including: maps and atlasses, old and new; interactive mapping services; sellers and publishers of cartographic material; and cartographic journals, societies and collections.
The University of Melbourne Library's Map Collection
Associations and Societies:
Critical Geography Forum (an online discussion forum for geographers)
Melbourne Human Geography Reading Group
Australian Geography Teachers' Association
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria
Institute of Australian Geographers
Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers
Royal Geographical Society of Qld
Royal Geographical Society of SA
Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs):
CRC for Waste Management and Pollution Control
CRC for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment
CRC for Ecologically Sustainable Development of the Great Barrier Reef CRC for Freshwater Ecology
CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management
CRC for the Sustainable Development of Tropical Savannas
CRC for Conservation and Management of Marsupials
CRC for Water Quality and Treatment
Other:
Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology