Course Content
Atmosphere: Climate and Biodiversity

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

ACE On-Line Young Person's Guide: Global Climate Change
Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment (ACE) Information Program, Atmospheric Resource Information Center, Manchester Metropolitan University

Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands: A Toolkit for Teachers and Interpreters
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Daisyworld: Exploring a Gaian System
David Bice, Department of Geology, Carleton College

Development and Evolution of Ecosystems (PDF)
Linda K. Blum, University of Virginia

Dinosaurs and the History of Life
Paul Olsen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Environmental Geology: Earth In Crisis
Robert Cody and Karl Seifert, University of Iowa

IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

Fauna: North Atlantic Routes
Kent Kirkby and Paul Morin, et al., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota

NewsOne Video
ABC News

EXERCISES AND LABS

1999 Earthwatch Education Award Programs: Biodiversity
Earthwatch Institute

AP Environmental Science
Mark Ewoldson, La Cañada High School (La Cañada-Flintridge, California)

A Draft Guide to Learning and Teaching Ichthyology Using the FishBase Information System
Daniel Pauly et al., International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management

Fishbanks
William A. Prothero, Department of Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara

Getting Close to Birds in the Wild: Freezing the Action
Anne Townsend, New York Institute of Photography

Global-Change Labs: Rainforests and Biodiversity (Exercise # 11)
David Hodell and Ray G. Thomas, University of Florida

Hydromania: Ecology
Bonneville Power Administration (Portland, Oregon)

Land Cover/Biology Investigation (A Globe Learning Investigation) (PDF)
The GLOBE Program

Undergraduate Summer Research Program: Reports from the Field
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), Columbia University

Windows on the Wild
World Wildlife Fund

RESEARCH & POLICY

Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities
Michael L. McKinney and James A. Drake, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Climate Change and Forests
Canadian Forest Service

CUBES: Columbia/UNESCO Joint Program on Biodiversity and Society
Columbia University Earth Institute and UNESCO

Conserving Earth's Biodiversity with E. O. Wilson (program)
E. O. Wilson and Dan L. Perlman (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2000)

Convention on Biological Diversity
United Nations Environment Programme

Crops Feeling La Niña's Drought
American Society for International Law-Wildlife Interest Group

From the Harpoon to the Heat: Climate Change and the International Whaling Commission in the 21st Century
William C. G. Burns, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security

International Conference on Biodiversity & Society
UNESCO and Earth Institute, Columbia University

The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy
Joel Cracraft and Francesca T. Grifo, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999)

The Migrating Boreal Forest
Rebecca Lindsey, NASA Earth Observatory

Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States
Bruce Stein et al., Oxford University Press/The Nature Conservancy

Promises at Risk: 2000 Report Card on the Protection of Species at Risk
Canadian Endangered Species Campaign

Surveying Natural Populations
Lee-Ann C. Hayek and Martin A. Buzas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)

U.S. National Assessment: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
U.S. Global Change Research Program