Caribbean
Asia
Australasia/South Pacific
Europe
North America
USA - State Coastal Zone Programs
- These web sites document accomplishments and provide ideas for the
organization and communication of important environmental and climate change
concepts.
USA - Federal
- United
States Global Change Research Program
- THE premier Global Change site. Always a good starting point.
- Fedworld
- The US Government central Web Site with a new, powerful web search
tool.
- US Department of Energy,
- US Department of Interior
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
- This agency of the US Department of Commerce is in charge of the US
Weather Service, the coastal zone program, the National Marine Fisheries
Service, the National Ocean Survey, and a variety of other coastal environmental
programs
- National Ocean Survey
- Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management (OCRM)
- The link above is the first stop into the NOAA mother lode of coastal
management sites. There is so much contained in these pages, that you're
bound to find at least one thing of interest. Coastal Programs Division
and Sanctuaries & Reserves Division are divisions within OCRM, and
the divisions' homepages are contained within the OCRM Web site. These
divisions, and info. on individual US state CZM programs, Estuarine Research
Reserves, and National Marine Sanctuaries
can be easily accessed through the OCRM homepage. If you want to go direct
to these - some examples are shown below.
- Sanctuaries & Reserves
Division
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- US Department
of State, International Policy, Environment.
- Site maintained by the State Department's Directorate for Environment
and Development, which is "responsible for policy formulation and
action on international environment and sustainable development."
By mid-April 1997, the site's latest global change postings included a
Draft Protocol
to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (dtd 17 Jan 1997) and
an address by Timothy E. Wirth (Under Secretary for Global Affairs) on
Sustainable Development:
Managing the Transition (dtd 4 March 1997). On 22 April 1997 (Earth
Day), the State Department added its annual report, Environmental
Diplomacy: The Environment and US Foreign Policy, along with introductory
remarks from Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Under Secretary
for Global Affairs Timothy Wirth, and Assistant Secretary for Oceans and
International Environmental & Scientific Affairs, Eileen Claussen.
The site also includes many recent documents on the Man and the Biosphere
Program.
- US Geological Survey
- This is the primary US mapping agency. The site at http://www.fgdc.gov/
aims to be the primary node of a worldwide search tool for locating
metadata records of geospatial data.
- National Biological Information
Infrastructure
- Data on a variety of environmental information issues, organized by
the Biological Resources Division (BRD)
of USGS. One of the best and most up-to-date sites on global, national
and special interest sites pertaining to biodiversity is at http://www.nbs.gov/nbii/iabin/
- Marine and Coastal Geology, US Geological
Survey
- Learning Web,
Global Change.
- Global change educational materials for grades 1-12.
- US National Science and Technology
Council, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on
Natural Disaster Reduction (SNDR).
- The SNDR is made up of representatives from Federal government agencies
addressing natural hazards from the points of view of assessment, mitigation,
and warning. The goal of the SNDR is to create a sustainable society, resilient
to natural hazards." Offerings include the Natural
Disaster Reduction, Natural Disaster Reduction; A Plan for the Nation.
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- Another treasure trove of both data (one of the several databases at
EPA is STORET, the largest environmental database in the world--some of
these data are interesting for ideas about monitoring systems), and programs.
- NASA Global Change
Master Directory
- NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive source
of information about satellite and in situ Earth science data, with
broad coverage of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, oceans, solid earth, and
biosphere. The GCMD is the American Coordinating Node of the Committee
on Earth Observation Satellites International Directory Network (CEOS
IDN) and is a component of the Global
Change Data and Information System
(GCDIS).
- US National Aeronautics and Space
Agency (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
- Global
temperature trends are an important area of research for the institute.
According to GISS, it "has set up a system to get the most out of
the available surface
air temperature data, developing and refining techniques to eliminate
outliers and station discontinuities, and to combine the data into one
coherent data set." The site provides regularly updated tables and
figures showing temperature trends.
Goddard's research also emphasizes "a broad study of global change,
an interdisciplinary research initiative addressing natural and man-made
changes in our environment which occur on various time scales from decades
to millennia and which affect the habitability of our planet." Among
the site's offerings is an informative series
of documents describing GISS' research. The series includes a set of
"Popular Science"
papers in which GISS scientists summarize their work "with the
aim of briefly communicating to the public the relevance and even excitement
of our research." As of April 1997, papers included:
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