GEOGRAPHY 372 Global Change -- Past, Present, and Future FALL 2009

SELECTED WEB SITES

Global Change and Past Climate

Earth's Climate, Past and Future, by Bill Ruddiman, 2nd edition, Freeman and Co. 2008

http://www.whfreeman.com/ruddiman/

Carbon Footprint Calculator -- UC Berkeley CoolClimate website (just one of many calculators available on line)

http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/

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/

State of California, Climate Change Portal, Research Center

http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/research/index.html

Remote Sensing Image Gallery --

http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri-old/rsimages/RSGallery.html

Land use and land cover change, desertification in Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Midwest, Pacific Northwest -- interesting images

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://globalchange.mit.edu/news/l

 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

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

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

Thermoluminescence

http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/Dalhousie?domains=www.dal.ca&sitesearch=dal.ca&namequery=&search_type=on&q=Thermoluminescence

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

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

Global Warming Controversy, News Releases, Skeptics Views

New Scientist, links to arguments for both sides of controversy

http://www.newscientist.com/topic/climate-change

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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