Outreach and Education
Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:44
PAGES fosters networking, outreach and capacity buildingthrough National PAGES, regional workshops and educational meetings (see calendar of PAGES-supported events), meeting support for developing-country and early-career scientists, and PAGES website and publications (e.g., PAGES newsletter, PowerPoint slides and videos of presentations from PAGES OSM). PAGES also has a Guest Scientist Program.
The list below contains links to web resources for education and outreach in the area of past global changes. Please help us to improve the list. Send your relevant outreach and education links to Anand Chandrasekhar.
General resources
World Data Center for Paleoclimatology including their slide sets
UCAR "Windows to the Universe"Climates of the Past in English and Spanish
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on past climate change
NASA Earth Observatory introduction to paleoclimate
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) frequently asked questions and the Paleoclimate chapter (and appendix) of the 4th Assessment Report
Exploratorium overview of climate change research with glossary (general audience)
The United Kingdom Government's Chief Scientific Adviser briefing on climate science
Climate Insights 101 from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Timescales
Geological Society of America geologic timescale
NOAA climate timeline
Climate history
Climate change/global warming
National Academies "Understanding and Responding to Climate Change"
Science in School Part I - The evidence for climate change (also in other languages)
Science in School Part II - Investigating the effects of anthropogenic global warming (also in other languages)
Interactive guide to everything you need to know about climate change
ProClim's information paper on dealing with arguments from global warming sceptics
Climate models
UCAR "Windows to the Universe"
PAGES Infosheet on Earth System Models
Climate insights 101 from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Orbital variations and Milankovich theory
NASA Earth Observatory
UCAR "Windows to the Universe"
Abrupt climate change
ENSO
UCAR "Windows to the Universe"
Carbon cycle
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (in French)
Archives and proxies
Sea level
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Tree rings
Dr. H.D. Grissino-Mayer (University of Tennessee)
Ice Cores
USGS National Ice Core laboratory
Marine and lake sediments
IODP deep see drilling video
Speleothems
NASA Earth Observatory
