Global Climate Change
Lecture Series, Spring 2005, Umass Amherst

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The U.S. National Climate Data Center (NOAA)
The EPA global warming site
The US Global Change Research Program
Reliable information from professional climate scientists

Eric Barron

Eric Barron received his B.S. degree in geology at Florida Sate University in 1973, and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Miami in 1976 and 1980.  Eric Barron, distinguished professor of geosciences, became dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences on July 1, 2002. He succeeds John A. Dutton, who was dean for 16 years. Before becoming dean, Barron was director of the EMS Environment Institute. He came to Penn State in 1986 as associate professor of geosciences. His mission then was to direct the college's newly-formed Earth Systems Science Center a leading center in the study of global change. Barron's research interests are in the areas of climatology, numerical modeling, and Earth history. He received a B.S. in geology from Florida State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Miami. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Homepage:  http://www.ems.psu.edu/People/Barron.html
Publications:  http://www.ems.psu.edu/People/barron1.pdf

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig

Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she is the leader of the Climate Impacts Group. Dr. Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute and a Professor of Environmental Sciences at Barnard College. A recipient of a 2001Guggenheim Fellowship, she focuses her research on the impacts of climate variability and change on system sand sectors at regional, national, and global scales. A Convening Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, Dr. Rosenzweig has led numerous national and international studies and published over 100 scientific articles and reports.

Homepage: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/crosenzweig.html
Publications: http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/symposia/archives/climate/biorosenzweig.html

Dr. Lonnie Thompson

Dr. Thompson is a professor geosciences at Ohio State University (OSU), as well as a Research Scientist at OSU's Byrd Polar Research Center. He has been investigating the patterns and sources of interannual, decadal, and centennial-scale climate variability for over thirty years. Dr. Thompson's research interests also focus on reconstructing the Earth's record of global changes, monsoonal variability, El Nino/Southern Oscillation variations, evidence of past volcanic activity, and on ice processes. Dr. Thompson has led over 80 expeditions to recover ice cores from the Peruvian Andes, China, Pamir and Tien Shan of the former USSR, Mt. Kenya, Africa, Franz Josef Land, Russia, Bolivia, Greenland, and Antarctica. He also serves as a member of the National Research Council's US National Committee for the International Union for Quaternary Research, NOAA's Scientific Advisory Panel for the Climate and Global Change Program, and the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales He is also on the Editorial Board of Geology, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of a major International Journal, The Holocene. Dr. Thompson received a B.S. degree in Geology from Marshall University in 1970, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from Ohio State University between 1971 and 1976.

Homepage/Publications: http://www.osu.edu/dosomethinggreat/thompson.html

Martin Hoffert

Martin Hoffert is a professor of physics at NYU.  He received his Ph.D. in astronautics at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1964, and his M. A. degree in liberal studies, sociology, and economics at the New school for Social Research in Michigan in 1969.  His current research topics of expertise include global environmental change, geophysical fluid dynamics, oceanography, biogeochemical cycles, and alternate energy technology.

Homepage/Publications:  http://www.physics.nyu.edu/people/hoffert.martin.html

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Perspectives

The perspective of a charitable organization
The perspective of re-insurance companies 1
The perspective of re-insurance companies 2
The perspective of the Union of Concerned Scientists
The perspective of a leading climate scientist
A paleoclimatic perspective on global warming
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearing on The Science of Global Warming, Wednesday, May 17, 2000

Other Resources

A leading Climate Research group
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC Special Report on The Regional Impacts of Climate Change- An Assessment of Vulnerability
A World View of Global Warming: A Photography Exhibit

Data Sources

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data/datasets.html

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