Course Content
Atmosphere: Paleoclimates

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

Dinosaurs: Fact and Fiction
Robert J. Litwin et al., United States Geological Survey (USGS)

The Geologic History of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Robert N. Oldale, Woods Hole Field Center, USGS

Glaciers and Glacial Geology
William W. Locke et al., Montana State University

Glaciers: Clues to Future Climate?
Richard S. Williams, Jr., USGS

Glimpses of the Ice Age from I-81
USGS

The Great Ice Age
Louis L. Ray, USGS

The Ice Age
Kent Kirkby, Paul Morin, et al., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota

It's About Time
Steve Greb, University of Kentucky

The Why Files: The Big Meltdown
David Tenenbaum and Terry Devitt, University of Wisconsin

IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

Earth Update: Paleoclimates
Carolyn Sumners, Houston Museum of Natural Science

Glacial Legacies of New York State
Thomas McGuire, Paleontological Research Institution, Cornell University

Methods of Paleoclimatology
Rick Behl, California State University, Long Beach

NewsOne Video
ABC News

Polar Ice Caps
Kent Kirkby, Paul Morin, et al., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota

EXERCISES AND LABS

Dino Land Gazette: The Official Journal of Dino Land
Chris Brusatte and Steve Brusatte, Dino Land Paleontology

Ice Cores: Windows to the Past
Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic, Sandra Shutey, Butte High School (Butte, Montana), and Stephanie Shipp, Rice University

It's About Time: Make a Timeline
Stephen Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky

Tree-Ring Laboratory
Stephanie L. Pfirman et al., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

RESEARCH & POLICY

Climate Reconstruction from Subsurface Temperatures
Henry N. Pollack and Shaopeng Huang, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian
Douglas H. Erwin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)

Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Climatic and Biotic Events
William A. Berggren et al., eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Implications
Carleton E. Brett and Gordon C. Baird, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)

Principles of Paleoclimatology: Principles of Paleobiology and Earth History
Thomas M. Cronin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999)