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Geotimes
August 2006 |
Geomedia On exhibit: The Traveling Smithsonian... Books: Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology... The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the Destruction of Civilizations...   |
Geotimes
September 2003 |
Geomedia Book Review: The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science... Maps: Lewis and Clark, USGS maps... DVD: Glacier DVD accolade |
Geotimes
December 2004 |
Quakes, Shakes and Fakes New Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey MF-2327-D. NEVADA. Geologic insights and suggestions on mineral potential... MF-2413. ALASKA. Geologic and fossil locality maps ... I-2655. UTAH and ARIZONA. Geologic map of the Kanab 30' X 60' quadrangle, Utah and Arizona... etc. |
Science News
May 8, 2004 |
A National Science Museum If you can't make it to Washington, D.C., to visit the recently opened Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences, check out the museum's online exhibits. |
Geotimes
September 2004 |
Geomedia Earthquakes, Climate Change and Reel Disasters... Geotimes on the Set... Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country... Mapping Mining Impacts in Missouri... |
Geotimes
June 2005 |
Geomedia Selling Extreme Life on the Extreme Screen... Books: Earth: An Intimate History... On the Shelf: Climate Change Picks from Kim Stanley Robinson... Maps: New View of North America... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Julie Brigham-Grette |
One If by Land, Two If by Sea A review of Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory -- How New Science is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners by Tom Koppel |
Geotimes
June 2006 |
Geomedia On exhibit: Art from the Rocks... Books: Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America by Paul Martin... Pleistocene Ecology and Public Policy by Christopher L. Hill... etc. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
Geotimes
December 2003 |
Geomedia On the Shelf for the Holidays... Books for the western traveler... |
Geotimes
March 2003 |
Geomedia Relatively few people know that groundwater pumping affects streams, lakes, wetlands and springs. Robert Glennon's book, Water Follies, sets to turn this situation around... Magnetic anomaly map of North America by the North American Magnetic Anomaly Group |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Stoss & Stoss |
Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Reason
October 2005
Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Geotimes
June 2007 |
Geomedia Science Infiltrates Fiction in Second Life... What's Hot in Documentaries? Climate Change... |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world. |
Geotimes
March 2004
E-an Zen |
The Marriage of Geology and Philosophy This slim volume deals with the public role of earth science in contemporary society. What it has to say should concern not only public-minded earth scientists and those engaged in policy-making, but those who care about the relations between science and the humanities |
CIO
August 15, 2002
Daintry Duffy |
Be Your Own Tour Guide Motivo, a Columbus, Ohio-based company, has created the Configurable Tour, an application that lets visitors log on to a museum's website and create a virtual exhibit based on their particular interests, then print out a map to guide them around the museum floor. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Megan Sever |
Conveyor Belt Shutdown Not Imminent As the climate warms and ice on Greenland melts, freshwater pours into the North Atlantic, which new research suggests is unlikely to cause a shutdown in global ocean circulation. |
Geotimes
November 2003 |
Geomedia Book Review: The Fossils of Florissant... Areal mapping applications... |
Scientific American
June 2006
Michael Shermer |
The Flipping Point How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip |
Geotimes
April 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Megan Sever |
Climate Policy -- Wading Into Heated Politics: Q&A with Gerald North An interview with National Academy of Sciences committee chair Gerald North about his experiences examining the hockey stick climate report, testifying about climate change before Congress, and about his thoughts on the climate policy debate. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2004
Forest, Webster & Reilly |
Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Katherine Unger |
Climate to Blame in Cultural Collapses The Anasazi people in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest disappeared suddenly, possibly due to climate change that made food and water sources scarce. Researchers are now linking several past periods of climate change with failed civilizations. |
Fast Company
May 2000
Cheryl Dahle |
Museums with a Mission What's the purpose of a museum? The old answer: to house and to display dead stuff -- the museum as mausoleum. The new answer: according to designer Ralph Appelbaum, to experience life and learning. He creates museums with a mission. |
Geotimes
June 2007
Fred Schwab |
Plunging into the Debate on Climate Change Debate continues about whether the warming effects of greenhouse gases are overshadowed by natural events. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2009
Peter Kelemen |
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Randall Orndorff |
Mapping Colorado Currently, only 24 percent of Colorado's spectacular geology has been mapped at the fine scale of 1:24,000. At the same time, the state hosts many geologic hazards. |
Science News
April 11, 2009
Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Reason
November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
Fast Company
Jackie Snow |
The Final Pieces Of The 9/11 Memorial Museum: Visitors, Their Stories, And Rooms That Listen Like all museums, the 9/11 Memorial Museum will tell visitors a story. Unlike most places, however, rooms in this building will also listen to memories. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2003
Colleen Whitney |
University of California Museum of Paleontology The site encompasses thousands of pages of information on life through time, organized in three major "exhibit halls": geologic time, phylogeny, and evolution. The exhibits are heavily interlinked, offering browsers of all levels opportunities to pursue concepts of particular interest. |
Chemistry World
April 2007
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Michael Fitzgerald |
Magical History Tour Museums are using new technology to provide interactive maps, personalized guided tours, instant messaging and location tracking features on specially designed handhelds. |
Scientific American
April 2007
David Biello |
Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem. |
Chemistry World
April 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Latest climate report sees a bigger role for adaptation The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that science can offer ways to adapt to climate change and reduce risk -- something that should be used in combination with cutting emissions. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
Mohan Munasinghe |
Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Global warming is already taking its toll internationally. Making development more sustainable will help address climate change. |
Wild West
Johnny D. Boggs |
Art of the West: Have You Heard About the Heard? For two days in March, they come in droves to the Heard Museum in Phoenix for one reason: Indian art. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
William R. Cline |
Global Warming and Agriculture If steps are not taken to curb carbon emissions, agricultural productivity could fall dramatically, especially in developing countries. |
Outside
July 2007
Amanda Griscom Little |
Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try. |
Geotimes
March 2007
MacFadden & DeSantis |
No More Ivory Tower: Communicating Geoscience to Society Traditionally, geoscience students have had few opportunities to engage in public outreach projects as part of their formal education. Yet their participation in broader impact activities can improve public understanding of science in the immediate future. |
