Links

Organisations and societies

International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG/AIG) (http://www.geomorph.org)
International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG/AIG) is a scientific, non-governmental and non-profit organisation, whose principal objectives are development and promotion of geomorphology as a science through international co-operation and dissemination of knowledge of geomorphology.

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (http://www.rgs.org)
The learned society & professional body for geography & geographers. Founded in 1830, we are a world centre for geography: supporting research, education, expeditions and fieldwork, and promoting public engagement and informed enjoyment of our world.

The Geological Society (London) (http://www.geolsoc.org.uk)
The Geological Society of London was founded in 1807. It is the UK national society for geoscience, and the oldest geological society in the world.

Web resources in Physical Geography and Geology

Atlas of rocks, minerals and textures - University of North Carolina (http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html)
A well presented, but not exhaustive, collection of thin sections of rock slides, covering mineral identification and specialised sections on micro-fabrics of igneous and metamorphic rocks.

BBC The Essential Guide to Rocks (http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks)
A lay-person’s interactive introduction to British scenery and geology.

Other National Geomorphological Organisations

Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group (ANZGG) (http://www.anzgg.org/)

Austrian Research Association on Geomorphology and Environmental Change (http://www.geomorph.at/)

Uniao da Geomorfologia Brasileira (Brazilian Geomorphological Union) (http://www.ugb.org.br/home/?pg=1)

Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG) (http://cgrg.geog.uvic.ca/)

The Czech Association of Geomorphologists (http://www.kge.zcu.cz/geomorf/index.html)

Groupe Français de Géomorphologie (French Geomorphology Group) (http://www.gfg.cnrs.fr/)

Deutscher Arbeitkreis für Geomorphologie (German Geomorphologists Group) (http://www.ak-geomorphologie.de/)

Associazione Italiana di Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia (Italian Association of Physical Geography and Geomorphology) (AIGeo) (http://www.aigeo.it/)

Japanese Geomorphological Union (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jgu/index.html)

Stowarzyszenie Geomorfologow Polskich (Association of Polish Geomorphologists) (http://www.sgp.org.pl/)

Associaçao Portuguesa de Geomorfólogos (Portuguese Association of Geomorphology) (http://www.apgeom.pt/)

Asociacia Slovenskych Geomorfologov (Association of Slovak Geomorphology) (http://www.asg.sav.sk/stanovy.htm)

Sociedad Espanola de Geomorfologia (SEG) (Spanish Geomorphological Society) (http://www.geomorfologia.es/)

Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (http://www.aag-gsg.org/)

Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America (http://rock.geosociety.org/qgg/index.htm)

Geoscience Masters Programmes

MSc Applied Geomorphology - University of Sussex (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pg/2012/taught/1660/25102)

MSc Environment and Climate Change - University of Liverpool (http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/postgrad/msc_env_chg.htm)

MSc Quaternary Science - University of London (http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/mscdegree.html)

MPhil Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing - University of Cambridge ( http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/graduate/mphil/gis/)