This month, Earthscape updates our collection of publications from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change and the Pew Center for Global Climate Change.
Educational Resources
My Wonderful World
is an exciting geography education site led by National Geographic and backed by a coalition of major national partners—to expand geographic learning in school, at home, and in the community. It’s their attempt to combat geographical illiteracy and better prepare students to compete in an interconnected global economy. The page for educators is chock full of rich multimedia resources.
World Wind is a new NASA product that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
The American Museum of Natural History’s Resources for Learning site has an Earth Science section with over 200 interactive resources for K–12.
The American Meteorological Society offers Online Weather Studies: A Local – National Teaching Partnership. This introductory college course for undergraduate institutions nationwide, consists of a 12 to 15-week course prepared by meteorologists nationally recognized in atmospheric science education.
GSA’s Earth Science Week 2006 will be celebrated from October 8-14. Students may enjoy taking the Geoscience Career Webquest to test their knowledge of these career areas.
Another resource from the GSA website is this syllabus developed for a freshman course whose goal is to teach students the geology of environmental issues and to attract them to geology as a course of study.
The GSA also offers a recommended reading list for children, young readers and adults.
From the Earthscape Archives
Canadian Youth Perspectives on Sustainable Development
A Graduate Education Framework for Tropical Conservation and Development
September Additions to Earthscape:
Policy
- Papers and Conferences
- The Pew Environmental Health Commission
- Transition Report to the New Administration: Strengthening our Public Health Defense Against Environmental Threats
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
- The contribution of energy service contracting to a low carbon economy
Research
- Papers and Conferences
- The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Early Observations on the European Union's Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme: Insigns for United States Policymakers
- Race to the Top: The Expanding Role of U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards
- The Pew Environmental Health Commission
- Healthy From the Start - Why America Needs a Better System to Track and Understand Birth Defects and the Environment
- Attack Asthma: Why America Needs a Public Health Defense System to Battle Environmental Threats
- America's Environmental Health Gap: Why the Country Needs a Nationwide Health Tracking Network
- Pew Oceans Commission
- Marine Pollution in the United States
- Managing Marine Fisheries in the United States
- Ecological Effects of Fishing in Marine Ecosystems of the United States
- America's Living Oceans - Charting a Course for Sea Change
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- The Time Scales of the Climate-Economy Feedback and the Climatic Cost of Growth
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
- Emissions Scenarios - What are they and what do they tell us
- The value of Intermittent Renewable Sources in the first week of NETA
- An Audit of UK Energy R&D: Options to Tackle Climate Change
- The Renewables Obligation: Can it Deliver?
- The Special Climate Change Fund: Origins and Prioritisation Assessment
- First Reactions to the Energy White Paper from the UK's Tyndall Centre
- The Carbon Disclosure Project
- Climate change, growth and sustainability: the ideological context
- Post-Normal Science and the Tyndall Centre: some critical issues
- Climate Change and the UK Aviation White Paper
- Challenges and Outcomes at COP-9
- The politics of afforestation and reforestation activities at COP-9 and SB-20
- The formation of belief in climate change in business organisations: a dynamic simulation model
- Coastal process simulator scoping study
- Does tomorrow ever come? Disaster narrative and public perceptions of climate change
- Adapting small-scale CDM sinks projects to low-income communities
- Can migrogrids make a major contribution to UK energy supply?
- Natural hazards and climate change: what knowledge is transferable?
- New Lessons for Technology Policy and Climate Change - Investment for Innovation: a briefing document for policymakers
- The role of political uncertainty in the Danish renewable energy market
- Beyond probability: new methods for representing uncertainty in projections of future climate
- How do the costs of adaptation affect optimal mitigation when there is uncertainty, irreversibility and learning?
- The creation of a pilot phase Interactive Integrated Assessment Process for managing climate futures
- Security assessment of future UK electricity scenarios
- Developing fast and efficient climate models
- Opportunism and competition in the non-fossil fuel obligation
- Avoiding dangerous climate change by inducing technological progress: scenarios using a large-scale econometric model
- A framework for assessing the political economy of post-2012 global climate regime
- Can adaptation and mitigation be complements?
- Decarbonising the UK - Energy for a Climate Concious Future
- An analysis of a post-Kyoto climate policy model
- The economics of energy service contracts
- Towards an integrated coastal sediment dynamics and shoreline response simulator
- Interactions between tourism, breeding birds and climate change across a regional scale
- ADAPTIVE: Adaptations to climate change amongst natural resource-dependant societies in the developing world: across the Southern African climate gradient
- Vulnerability to abrupt climate change in Europe
- Domestic Tradable Quotas: A policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy use
- An assessment of carbon sequestration potential in the UK - Southern North Sea case study
- Growth scenarios for EU & UK aviation: contradictions with climate policy
- An efficient numerical terrestrial scheme (ENTS) for fast earth system modelling
- Sustainable water resources: A framework for assessing adaptation options in the rural sector
- Climate change on the millennial timescale
- Contraction & Convergence: UK carbon emissions and the implications for UK air traffic
- Sandbanks for coastal protection: Sandbanks for coastal protection - Parts I, II and III
- Research Strategy 2006-2009
- Truly useful ... doing climate change research that is useful for both theory and practice
- Towards an integrated coastal simulator of the impact of sea level rise in East Anglia
- Vicarious experience vs. scientific information in climate change risk perception and behaviour: a case study of undergraduate students in Norwich, UK
- The Costs of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation with Induced Technological Change: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates in the Literature
- USGS
- The Environment and Human Health: USGS Science for Solutions
- USGS Environmental Studies of the World Trade Center Area, New York City, After September 11, 2001
Journals
- International Research Institute Climate Digest
- Climate Information Digest, August 2006, Volume 9, Number 8
- Climate Information Digest, July 2006, Volume 9, Number 7
- Climate Information Digest, June 2006, Volume 9, Number 6
- Climate Information Digest, May 2006, Volume 9, Number 5
- Climate Information Digest, April 2006, Volume 9, Number 4
- Climate Information Digest, March 2006, Volume 9, Number 3
- Climate Information Digest, February 2006, Volume 9, Number 2
- Climate Information Digest, January 2006, Volume 9, Number 1
- Climate Information Digest, December 2005, Volume 8, Number 12
Journal of the Geological Society
- Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 163, Number 3, 2006
- Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 163, Number 4, 2006
- Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 163, Number 5, 2006