GIS provides text and illustrations on a wide variety of geoscience topics of broad interest to the general public, including geologic and hydrologic hazards, glaciers, volcanoes, global environmental change, planets, moons, asteroids, and comets of the Solar System, etc. Topics can also be focused on geographic areas of unique geological and/or biological interest, such as Iceland, Hawai'i, Galápagos Islands, Cape Cod, that are well known to the GIS staff.

Articles on geoscience and geographic-area specific topics are written for popular magazines, children's magazines, educational media, etc. A few examples of published articles and maps of general interest are:

National Geographic Society, 2000, Coral world map and virtual reefscape poster: Washington, D.C.; cartography by Nietschmann, B.Q., Norris, T.B., Rose, R.S., and Roswell, J.M., GeoMap, Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley; Williams, R.S., Steele, J., de Blij, H.J., and Nietschmann, B.Q., editors; National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, double-sided printing. [available from the Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society, for $17 at ekandis@ngs.org or National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, 1145 17^th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036]

U.S. Geological Survey, 1996, Volcanoes: U.S. Geological Survey Teacher's Packet, including poster and teacher's manual for grades 9-12. [available from the U.S. Geological Survey at volcanoes.usgs.gov/about/edu/index.php]

U.S. Geological Survey, 1998, Land and people: Finding a balance, Los Angeles, CA [mudflows]; Miami, FL [Everglades National Park]; Cape Cod, MA [ground-water contamination]: U.S. Geological Survey Teacher's Packet, including poster and teacher's manual for grades 9-12. [available from the U.S. Geological Survey at online.wr.usgs.gov/outreach/landpeople/main/]

Williams, R.S., Jr., and Moore, J.G., 1983, Man against volcano: The eruption on Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland: U.S. Geological Survey, General Interest Publication, revised 2^nd edition, 32p. [available from the U.S. Geological Survey at pubs.usgs.gov/gip/heimaey/]

Williams, R.S., Jr., 1983, Glaciers: Clues to future climate?: U.S. Geological Survey, General Interest Publication, 24p. [available from the U.S. Geological Survey at pubs.usgs.gov/gip/glaciers/]

A complete list of more than 50 "Outreach Publications: 1968-Present," in which Dr. Richard S. Williams, Jr. was involved as an acknowledged scientific advisor or author in the preparation of books, booklets, films, videos, CD-ROMs, and maps, is provided in a downloadable PDF.