Browse Other Climate Resources
Here are additional resources relating to aspects of Climate Change from the SERC catalog. These resources have not been reviewed by the Climate Change Collection review team.QuickSearch: Greenhouse Effect | [link browse_local.html?search_text=carbon cycle&search 'Carbon cycle']| [link browse_local.html?search_text=sun solar cycle 'Solar cycle']
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Effects of Human Activities on the Interaction of Ground Water and Surface Water part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This information describes how human activities affect ground water and ground water recharge. After a discussion of point and nonpoint sources of contaminants, there is information about the effects ...Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
United States Geological Survey: International Polar Year Resources (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource provides a brief overview of the upcoming International Polar Year (IPY) and United States Geological Survey (USGS) initiatives and resources that help support the observance. Topics ...Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Study Shows Potential for Antarctic Climate Change part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article reports on a study, conducted at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), in which researchers found depleted ...Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Global Warming part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article provides a brief discussion of the issues surrounding global warming. Topics include greenhouse gas emissions, the possible consequences of global warming, and debates among proponents ...Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Trinidad's Rising Seas: Effects of Global Warming part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This transcript from a radio program describes impacts, both observed and precicted, by a climatologist on the island of Trinidad. These include loss of land area by flooding, bleaching of corals ...Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Let Us Talk with Christina Hulbe about Studying Ice Flows for Clues to Climate Change part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This in-depth profile of a scientist who studies the physics of ice flow provides insight into how changes in Antarctica's ice sheets could affect global climate. In the question and answer ...Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Sea Ice part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site features a video that illustrates both seasonal patterns and long-term changes in sea ice distribution across the Arctic Ocean. It draws data from two satellite instruments that measure ...Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Cloud Formation and Climate part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter from an online course discusses two topics, water and heat storage; and the properties of clouds. Older students can read about water's ability to store and release heat, and how ...Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Forecasting the Unpredictable part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This essay describes the effort being made to predict the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and detect any relationship between it and global warming. Students will discover how computer models are ...Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Slow Drip of Time part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Native Americans once lived high up on mesas and cliffs in what is now New Mexico and Arizona. But a drought around 700 years ago caused them to abandon these high grounds and resettle in river ...Grade Level: General Public, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8)