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Geography and Environment
Studies: 19
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Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive and costliest natural disaster to occur in the United States. Nearly 5 million people lived in the path of Katrina. An additional 1.3 million lived in the New ...

hdl:1902.2/22325
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Updated: Nov 13, 2009
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Immigrant communities have been an indispensable element of United States metropolitan life, often playing the role of a way station on a long journey of assimilation. Reflecting this, a linear spatial ...

hdl:1902.2/23545
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Updated: Jul 13, 2009
ABC News/Washington Post/Stanford University Global Warming Poll, April 2007 by ABC News; The Washington Post; Stanford University
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This special topic poll, conducted April 5-10, 2007, is part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. The ...

hdl:1902.2/24585
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Updated: Jul 13, 2009
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The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is an automated data system developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to standardize and disseminate information on geographic names. GNIS ...

hdl:1902.2/9515
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Updated: May 7, 2008
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This collection provides longitudinal data on geographic distances between nations. These distances changed over time as a result of alterations in the political map of Europe. The collection is designed ...

hdl:1902.2/9274
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Updated: May 7, 2008
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This cartographic database was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cartographic Laboratory in conjunction with the Newberry Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The collection ...

hdl:1902.2/9025
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Updated: May 7, 2008
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This dataset consists of cartographic data in digital line graph (DLG) form for the northeastern states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont). Information ...

hdl:1902.2/8379
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Updated: May 6, 2008
Geographic Base File/Dual Independent Map Encoding (GBF/DIME), 1980 by United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
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A Geographic Base File is a map in machine-readable form, and Dual Independent Map Encoding is the method used for this collection to encode map features in data files. These files have been created ...

hdl:1902.2/8378
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Updated: May 6, 2008
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The boundaries of five different geographic areas -- North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia -- are digitally represented in this collection of data files that can be used in the production ...

hdl:1902.2/8376
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Updated: May 6, 2008
Geographic Names Information System: National Geographic Names Data Base, Michigan Geographic Names by United States Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey
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The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) was developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to meet major national needs regarding geographic names and their standardization and dissemination. This ...

hdl:1902.2/8374
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Updated: May 6, 2008