Geography & Geology  Department

Justin's Head 

The North Carolina Geographer

Intern/GTU S13 PPT

Liz Hines holds an M.A. in Geography from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in Geography from Louisiana State University.  She teaches Cartography, Planning, World Geography, the Geography of Food, and the Geography of Race at UNC Wilmington.  She is the director of the Geography Internship Program.  Her research interests include American Racial History,  the American South, Foodways, and Ethnicity.  She is a board member of the African American Heritage Foundation of Wilmington, LINC, Inc., and The Wilmington Ten Foundation for Social Justice.

• Project HAL, a data collection project on Historic American Lynching.

• How to approach college to attain the skills you will need after college:  an essay by William Coplin.

• The CIA's World Fact Book

• The Earth at Night from NASA's

• Matt Rosenberg's Geography Guide web page 

•  Earth Sciences Resource

• Physical Geography Resource

• Yale Map Collection

• Largest Cities in History

• Latitude and Longitude of World Cities

• TOPOZONE see and download USGS topographic maps

• US Census GIS Site, 2000 State-level Census Data Summary

• Latitude and Longitude Confluences:  Unique   

• Geography Animations and Applets  

• Physical Geography demos 

• Excellent on-line maps from UTexas  

• Cheaper text books:  Alibris;  AddAll

• Why we need GEOGRAPHY