HYDROSPHERE

  the ocean world
marine life
coastlines
the water cycle and water quality
freshwater ecosystems

GEOSPHERE

  inside the earth
plate tectonics
modeling the earth
earthquakes
volcanoes
avalanches
living at risk
planning for hazards

ATMOSPHERE








the earth system
paleoclimates
the global carbon cycle
modeling the climate
global warming
el niño & la niña
climate & biodiversity
climate & society

Course Content
Atmosphere: Climate and Society

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

Access to Safe Water
Learning Modules, World Bank Group

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 Information Kit
United Nations Environment Programme

Early Warning Signs of Global Warming
Union of Concerned Scientists

Exploring the Dynamics of Earth Systems: The Human Population System
David Bice, Department of Geology, Carleton College

Global Warming and the Solar Greenhouse
John C. Canivan, JC Solar Homes

In Hot Water: A Snapshot of the Northwest's Changing Climate
Patrick Mazza, Climate Solutions, Earth Island Institute

Introduction to Global Change
Tim Killeen, University of Michigan

IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

Earth Update: Climate and Society
Carolyn Sumners, Houston Museum of Natural Science

Human Populations
Kent Kirkby, Paul Morin, et al., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota

NewsOne Video
ABC News

EXERCISES AND LABS

Case Studies in Environmental Journalism
Kim Anne Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Steven S. Ross, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region Curriculum Guide
Union of Concerned Scientists

Curriculum Guide for the Climate Impacts Map
Union of Concerned Scientists

Did El Niño Impact San Joaquin County Agriculture? (A GIS/ArcView Project)
Gene Pearson, Department of Geology and Geography, University of the Pacific

Dynamic Earth
Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, California)

Global-Change Labs: Water Resources and Groundwater (Exercise # 10)
David Hodell and Ray G. Thomas, University of Florida

Land and People: Finding a Balance
The Learning Web, United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Soil Investigation (A GLOBE Learning Investigation) (PDF)
The GLOBE Program

Stream Floods
Warren D. Huff, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati

RESEARCH & POLICY

Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate Protection Initiative
World Resources Institute

Consequences, 1(1) 1995 - 5(2) 1999

EPA's State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon
Michael Goulding et al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

Global Climate Change
Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Kyoto Protocol
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Local Climate Change Outreach Kit
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Metro East Coast Climate Impacts Assessment Workshop
Earth Institute, Columbia University

Natural Resources: The Sustainability Challenge
Global Dialogue on Sustainable Developments

Pricing the Planet
Peter H. May and Ronaldo Serôa da Motta (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability (selected sections)
R. T. Watson et al. (Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Salvaging the Kyoto Climate Change Negotiations
Warwick J. McKibben and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Brookings Institute

Societal Aspects of Weather
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

Valuing the Future
Geoffrey Heal (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Washington Summit on Protection of the World's Climate
Climate Institute