Climate Quest

Summer 2007

Global Climate Change, Weather, and Past Climate

My Ecological and Carbon Footprints

http://www.myfootprint.org/

U.S. Drought Monitor, present conditions and animations of drought in the U.S. over the past few years

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

Animation of North American Polar Jet Stream, Live Data, SF State. One of my favorite sites -- watch how the jet stream changes strength and position as the seasons change

http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html

Unisys Weather -- excellent source for satellite images, hurricane updates, sea surface temps, loops

http://weather.unisys.com/

Intellicast, WSI Corporation and Photodisc, weather around the world

http://www.intellicast.com

Online Guides to Weather -- http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/home.rxml

Instructional Resources in Meteorology, Remote Sensing, and Reading and Interpreting Weather Maps

The Ozone Hole Tour -- http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/

History and Science of the Ozone Hole over Antarctica,

educational modules on concepts of ozone depletion.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

EPA Global Warming Site:

http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

Includes Good Glossary of Global Change terms:

http://epa.gov/climatechange/glossary.html

Union of Concerned Scientists page on Environmental Policy, Global Warming

http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/guides/guide-hp.html

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Summaries for Policymakers, Reports

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Warnings from the Ice. NOVA program from WGBH, Boston, Ice Core Timeline

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/

Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica. EROS Data Center, USGS - Landsat Images

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/Filchner/Filchner

Ice Ages Museum - Illinois State Museum

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/

MIT - Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/outreach.html

 EarthShots -- Satellite images of effects of environmental change, desertification, deforestation, war, ...

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

Geog 370 Climatology Links Page -- more links on weather, climate, etc.

http://www.sonoma.edu/people/F/freidel/climate/370links.htm

A Brief History of Atmospheric General Circulation Models, American Institute of Physics

http://www.aip.org/history/sloan/gcm/intro.html

Dating Techniques

Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory -- lots of detailed info on the radiocarbon dating method

http://www.c14dating.com/

Biostratigraphy and Geochronology -- overview of using fossil record for relative dating of strata

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/paleonet/paleo21/biostrat.html

US Geological Survey web site for Geochronology and Geochemistry -- explanations of techniques, uses

http://geology.cr.usgs.gov/capabilities/geotrac.html

Teaching Documents for Geochronological Methods -- from basic to technical explanations on dating methods

http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/links/teach/chronoteach.html

Martindale's Geoscience Center -- Links to many different types of dating methods, other resources

http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradGeoscience_8_AR.html#GEO-PALC

Also, for your interest, the Creationists' View of Geochronology

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodmorappe-geochronology.html

Global Warming Controversy, News Releases, Skeptics Views

Environmental Media Services, current information on environmental issues, pdf of Pentagon concerns

http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climate_change.html

New Scientist, links to arguments for both sides of controversy

http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/global/links.html

Weathereye Skeptics and Believers Pages and Links

http://weathereye.kgan.com/expert/warming/explain.html

Greening Earth Society -- publishes Capitalism Magazine, sponsored by Western Fuels Assn.

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2733

Science and Environmental Policy Project

http://www.sepp.org/

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