Environmental and Geoscience Textbooks: Library Subscription and Open Access

2020, by John Waldron, University of Alberta and Morgan Snyder, Acadia University.
Presents practical skills for discovering the foundation for much of what is known about the history of the Earth, and important tools for exploring the subsurface.
This manual consists of both readings and lab exercises. The labs contain specific instructions and questions to be completed.

2021, by Daniel Hauptvogel, and Virginia Sisson, University of Houston.
Our goal in creating the material for this lab manual was to focus heavily on students making observations of geologic data, whether rocks, minerals, fossils, maps, graphs, and other things. We want students to look at things and wonder why, how, and when. The exercises and examples used in this book are scattered throughout the world. We wanted to make sure that one region of the world was not the sole focus of this work.

2021, BY Christian Tiberius et al, Delft University of Technology.
This book provides an introduction, at academic level, into the field of surveying and mapping. The book has been compiled based on hand-outs and readers written for the third-year course Surveying and Mapping, in the bachelor program Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology. This book covers a wide range of measurement techniques, from land surveying, GPS/GNSS and remote sensing to the associated data processing, the underlying coordinate reference systems, as well as the analysis and visualization of the acquired geospatial information.

2021 by Elizabeth Johnson, Juhong Christie Liu,James Madison University.
Learn about igneous and metamorphic rocks (and how to analyze them), the fun way! Students learn concepts and practice knowledge by conducting inquiries guided with examples based on videos and interactive diagrams.

by Elizabeth Johnson and Juhong Christie Liu

2020 by Ulrike Ingram, Jason Rhodes, Kennesaw State University.
A modular collection of readings, videos, tutorials, and other resources. opics covered include an overview of cartography, map design, map types, map data, color and visual variables, geodesy and coordinate systems, typography, and ethics. Exams and a poster assignment are also available for download.

2014 by David DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University.
Covers essential knowledge about GIS and related data, land surveying and GPS.

2011 by Jonathan Campbell, MIchael Shin, UCLA.
Integrates key concepts behind the technology with practical concerns and real-world applications. Designed to be accessible, pragmatic, and concise. Illustrates how GIS is used to ask questions, inform choices, and guide policy. Provides a substantive, introduction to the use and application of digital maps, mapping, and GIS.

2019 by Steven Earle.
A comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. A strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia; includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.

Updated 2022 by Kimberly Schulte, Columbia Basin College.

2020 by Jeremy Patrich, Trudi Radtke, College of the Canyons.
Covers a wide array of topics such as: Earth’s grid system, rivers, oceans, deserts, basic geology, and cartography.

2016 by Bradley Deline, Randa Harris,Karen Tefend, University of North Georgia.
A comprehensive lab manual for the core curriculum Introductory Geosciences classes with both informational content and laboratory exercises. Topics include basic laws and theories in Geology, the Earth's interior and plate tectonics, water and climate change, igneous rocks and volcanoes, and earthquakes.