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Wolf Berger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego: Climate Change 1: The Earth's Climate System, and Climate Change 2: Past and Future System. Online accompaniment to a distance learning course. See also: Glossary Climate Change.
Donald L. Blanchard: Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions. A model for climactic change.
Bert Bolin, Egon T. Degens, Stephan Kempe, and Pieter Ketner 1979 (illustrated HTML at icsu-scope.org, SCOPE, The Scientific Committee On Problems of the Environment): The Global Carbon Cycle. For instance: The Possible Effects of Increased CO2 on Photosynthesis. by J. Goudriaan and Jr. G. L. Ajtay.
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: Web-based instruction. Annotated links to information on using the web to teach. Go to: CzPaleobotany. Go to: Cenozoic Elevation of the Rocky Mountains, Paleobotanical Methods. About fossil classification (nearest living relative, physiognomy and CLAMP) and climate and elevation analysis.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
No registration required. Go to:
Edward Boyle, Kerry Emanuel and Carl Wunsch:
Past
and Present Climate. This course introduces to climate studies, including beginnings of
the solar system, time scales, and climate in human history.
! Keith R. Briffa et al. (2007): Paleoclimate. PDF file. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
Monica Bruckner, Montana State University ( website hosted by Microbial Life, Educational Resources): Paleoclimatology: How Can We Infer Past Climates?
! Eric J. Chaisson, Wright Center for Science Education: Cosmic evolution: from big bang to humankind. Based on a course taught at Harvard University. This site offers background information and resources to understand the origins of matter and life in our universe, known as cosmic evolution. Questions from how the universe began to how humans evolved are addressed, using an interdisciplinary approach between life, Earth, space, and physical sciences. Go to: Climatic Change, and Atmosphere and Oceans.
Rick Cheel, Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University: The Earth´s Atmosphere and Climate. Powerpoint presentation.
Climate Ark (a project of Ecological Internet, Inc). The ClimateArk is a Climate Change Portal and Search Engine.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University: The Climate System. Lecture notes.
! Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, National Academy Press, Washington, DC: Effects of Past Global Change on Life. Panel on Effects of Past Global Change on Life, National Research Council; 272 pages, 1995. This "Open Book" presentation is a free, browsable, nonproprietary, fully and deeply searchable version of the publication.
! W.A. DiMichele et al. (2009): Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth. PDF file, Geobiology, 7: 200-226.
W.A. DiMichele, H.W. Pfefferkorn, and R.A. Gastaldo: RESPONSE OF LATE CARBONIFEROUS AND EARLY PERMIAN PLANT COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., January 1, 2001; 29(1): 461-487.
Earth Learning Idea
(James Devon, London). Free PDF downloads for Earth-related teaching ideas. Go to:
Earth´s
atmosphere - step by step evolution (in PDF).
Using a physical model to show the development of our current atmosphere.
! D.H. Erwin (2009): Climate as a driver of evolutionary change. PDF file, Current Biology, 19: R575-R583. See also here.
Robert A. Gastaldo, Colby College: Plants as keys to past climatic conditions.
Robert A. Gastaldo, Auburn University, William A. DiMichele, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, & Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Out of the Icehouse into the Greenhouse: A Late Paleozoic Analog for Modern Global Vegetational Change.
W.A. Green, Palaeontologia Electronica Volume 9, Issue 2 (2006): Loosening the CLAMP: An Exploratory Graphical Approach to the Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program.
! David R. Greenwood, Environmental Science Program, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada: Fossil plants as environmental indicators. Lecture note, PDF file (3.6 MB).
William Gutowski, Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA: Global Change. Go to: Paleoclimate. Powerpoint presentation.
! James E. Hansen, Columbia University, New York, NY: Presentations & Links. A link list of PowerPoints and PDFs.
Christoph Heubeck, Sabine Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen Götze, Ulla and Michael Schudack, David Völker, Christoph Dobmeier, Joachim Müller, Henry Wuttke and Henriette Peters, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin: Die Erde. An introduction to Geosciences. Go to: Die Entwicklung der Atmosphäre, and Zusammensetzung der Atmosphäre und Greenhouse/Icehouse-Zyklen im Phanerozoikum, or Eiszeiten in der Erdgeschichte (in German).
Monte Hieb and Harrison Hieb, Plant Fossils of West Virginia: Global Warming.
Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Moving Plants! Vegetation migration in response to climatic change.
Huff, P.M., P. Wilf, and E.J. Azumah, 2003: Digital future for paleoclimate estimation from fossil leaves? Preliminary results. PDF file, Palaios, v. 18, p. 266-274.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield: Ice Ages. An easy-to-understand online exhibition describing the ice ages and how and why they occurred.
! The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
IPCC has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio-
economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change. Go to:
Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis.
This is a comprehensive scientific assessment of past, present and future climate change.
Miriam Jones (presentation hosted by Katherine Leonard, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University): Paleoclimate Review. Powerpoint presentation.
! The Johns Hopkins University: eGuide to Paleoclimates . The eGuide contains links to advanced instructional tutorials for online examination of hot-button paleoclimate research issues.
M. Alan Kazlev, Kheper website, Australia: The Oxygen Atmosphere.
University of London External System, London, UK (This is is a division of the University of London that grants external degrees: Study in Economics, Management, Finance and Social Sciences (EMFSS), Biogeography. Go to: Chapter 4: Patterns in time. This PDF file briefly reviews the evolution of the flora and fauna of the earth and the role that plate tectonics, climate and sea level played in their evolution.
! Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Programme, ARIC, Manchester Metropolitan University (supported by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs): The Global Climate Change Student Information Guide. This guide represents an up-to-date review of climate change. Throughout, the focus has essentially been on global climate change, although reference to regional scale climatic change has been made if necessary. Go to: Palaeoclimate Reconstruction from Proxy Data.
Michael E. Mann, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia: Insights into Climate Dynamics from Paleoclimate Data. Powerpoint presentation.
! Ellen E. Martin, Department of Geology, University of Florida: Global Climate Change. Lecture notes (powepoint presentations). Navigate from here or there. See especially: General Overview Phanerozoic Palaeoclimate.
The University of Michigan:
Global Change, Physical Processes:
Global Change 1
Fall 2011 Schedule . Go to:
!
Atmosphere
Structure, Circulation, and Weather.
! Volker Mosbrugger, Chair of Paleontology, University of Tübingen (page hosted by Paläontologische Gesellschaft, powerpoint converted by R. Leinfelder): Klima und Leben. Keynote lecture, Geo2002, Würzburg (in German). Quicktime- (3.7 MB) or HTML-Version (3.6 MB).
Richard A. Muller, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley: A Brief Introduction to History of Climate.
! NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado. What is Paleoclimatology? Introduction to paleoclimatology. Worth to visit: Paleoclimatology Slide Sets.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO: The Climate TimeLine. Designed as an online tool allowing users to examine climate change and variability at different time scales. You can also navigate from the Climate TimeLine Fact Sheet. This website has been developed through a CIRES Innovative Research Grant, through the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program which is part of the National Climatic Data Center. See also: An Overview of Climate Processes.
Paul E. Olsen and Jessica H. Whiteside: PRE-QUATERNARY MILANKOVITCH CYCLES AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY. PDF file, Encyclopedia of paleoclimatology and ancient environments, p. 826-835.
The Open University , UK (the world´s first successful distance teaching university): The Open University provides high-quality university education to all. Go to: Global warming. An introduction.
! Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO: Paleoclimate. Powerpoint presentation.
Paleogeographic Atlas Project, University of Chicago: Permian Introduction, and Jurassic Geography and Climates. Detailed paleotopographic and paleobathymetric maps. See also: Jurassic Floras and Climate.
Judith Totman Parrish and Paul Koch, (Paleo21): Paleoclimatology in the 21st Century.
Michael Pidwirny, Department of Geography, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada: FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. The main purpose of Physical Geography is to explain the spatial characteristics of the various natural phenomena that exist in Earth's hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. Go to: Introduction to the Atmosphere, and Introduction to the Hydrosphere.
P David Polly, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:
Historical Geology. Life through time.
Lecture notes. Topics are paleontology, geologic time, biological evolution,
plate tectonics, ancient environments, and climate change,
principles of interpreting earth history from geological data, etc. Go to:
Lecture 25:
Climate Change.
Lecture slides (PDF file).
Report on the International Workshop for a Climatic, Biotic, and Tectonic, Pole-to-Pole Coring Transect of Triassic-Jurassic Pangea. Held June 5-9, 1999 at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Navigate from here. Biotic change in a Hot-House world. The biotic change in a Hot-House world theme deals with biological patterns at three scales: global biogeographic patterns characteristic of the Hot-House world; Triassic-Jurassic evolution; and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction. Go to: Global Climate and Phytogeography.
L. Bruce Railsback, Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens: An Atlas of Speleothem Microfabrics. Stalagmites, stalactites, and other mineral deposits known as speleothems contain chemical and mineralogical clues to past rainfall and temperatures.
! Allister Rees, GEON SDSC Meeting Webcast Archive, San Diego Supercomputer Center: GEON SDSC Meeting, webcast live: Go to: Dinosaurs and More: Integration of the DINO and PGAP Databases (August 22, 2005). Biomes, climates and floral development from the Permian to the Jurassic.
Allister Rees, Fred Ziegler and David Rowley, University of Chicago: THE PALEOGEOGRAPHIC ATLAS PROJECT (PGAP). Including a Jurassic and Permian slideshow sampler (QuickTime), paleogeographic maps (downloadable pdf files), and a bibliography of PGAP Publications (with links to abstracts).
Peter M.A. Rees et al.: Jurassic phytogeography and climates: new data and model comparisons. PDF file.
Daniel H. Rothman, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: Global biodiversity and the ancient carbon cycle. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 8, 4305-4310, April 10, 2001.
Daniel H. Rothman, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels for the last 500 million years. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99, Issue 7, 4167-4171, April 2, 2002.
William F. Ruddiman (U. of Virginia): Earth's Climate Past and Future (zip files).
Sabine Schmidt, Gravity Research Group, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany: Die Erde (in German).
Victor A. Schmidt and William Harbert (mirrored by the Faculty Computer Lab, Faculty of Geosciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): Planet Earth and the New Geosciences. Go to: UNIT 7: THE CLIMATE PUZZLE: THE ATMOSPHERE, and UNIT 8: THE CLIMATE PUZZLE: CLIMATES OF THE EARTH.
The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College, (supported through National Science Foundation grants): Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, Paleoclimate: Climate Change Through Time. This website provides access to a spectrum of visualizations and supporting material that can be used effectively to teach students about paleoclimate through geologic time. Visualizations include simple animations, GIS-based animated maps, paleogeographic maps, as well as numerous illustrations and photos.
! Christopher R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project, Arlington, Texas: Climate History.
SciQuest.com: Geology, Evolution upset: Oxygen-making microbes came last, not first.
Timothy Shanahan, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin: Climate: Past, Present and Future. Go to: Lecture 17: Tectonic-scale Climate Change. Powerpoint presentation.
! R.A. Spicer: Fossils as Environmental Indicators, Climate from Plants. PDF file.
Robert A. Spicer, The Warm Earth Environmental Systems Research Group: Plant Fossils as Climatic Indicators. Go to: Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Programe (CLAMP). An introduction to the use of leaf architecture for determining past climatic conditions.
Sanpisa Sritrairat, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY: Paleoclimate Review. Powerpoint presentation.
Alan Strahler, Boston University, and Arthur Strahler: Introducing Physical Geography, Table of Contents. This Student's Companion was written to help you develop a well-organized and systematic approach to learning the material presented in Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment. Go to: Midlatitude and High-Latitude Climates, and Low Latitude Climates.
Eugene S. Takle and Richard C. Seagrave, The Global Learning Resource Network, Iowa State University: GLOBAL CHANGE. About the long-term characteristics of the atmosphere: why the atmosphere is what it is, how it got that way, and what is necessary to make significant changes in its structure and composition. Go to: Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere.
! United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Vital Climate Graphics. This set of graphics focuses on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change. Go to: Introduction to climate change.
U.S. Geological Survey, Global Change Research Program: Global Change Data Sets.
U.S. National Geophysical Data Center: Climate Timeline Tool. Descriptions with graphics of the general climatic conditions during different periods of time.
Mittsy Voiles and Al Stenstrup: What Information Do Paleobotanists Use to Study Ancient Climates? PDF file, adapted from Global Change Education Resource Guide, Lynn L. Mortensen. See also here (Teacher Education for Sustainability. I. Global Change Education).
Michael Wegner, Köln, GeologieInfo.de: Palaeoclimate (in German).
Helmut Weissert Geologie, ETH Zürich: Evolution der Biosphäre. Bilder aus der Erdgeschichte. PDF file, in German.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
No registration required. Go to:
Kelin Whipple and Ben Crosby: Surface
Processes and Landscape Evolution. The course (PDF files) offers an introduction to
quantitative analysis of geomorphic processes, and examines the interaction of climate,
tectonics, and surface processes in the sculpting of Earth´s surface.
Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection: Climate Change.
!
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Climatology,
Paleoclimatology,
Snowball Earth.
Peter Wilf: When are leaves good thermometers? A new case for Leaf Margin Analysis. PDF file, Paleobiology, 23(3), 1997, pp. 373–390.
Yuri D. Zakharov et al. (2009):
Permian to earliest Cretaceous
climatic oscillations in the eastern Asian continental margin (Sikhote-Alin area),
as indicated by fossils and isotope
data.
PDF file (3 MB), GFF, 131: 25-47. See also
here.
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