Paleoenvironment & Paleoclimate
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Paleoenvironment & Paleoclimate

Overview

FY 2000 Accomplishments

Archived News Postings [June 2000 - July 2005]

Related Sites

Please note, this is not a comprehensive list; contact the webmaster to suggest additions.

Note: As of October 2000, this category is mostly covered under the broad  "Climate Variability and Change" research element.  However categorized on this web site, paleoenvironment and paleoclimate continues to be an important element of global change research and  is essential to our understanding not only of the past but of future climate change.

USGCRP: 

US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs, Paleoclimatology (program summary).  Home page: NOAA Paleoclimatology Program at the National Geophysical Data Center, a central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education.

National Science Foundation, Global Change Research Program, Earth System History

Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,  Paleoecology and Panama Paleontology Project

Other

• American Quaternary Association.  "A professional organization of North American scientists devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, about the last 2 million years of Earth history."
• University of Arizona, Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Laboratory.  Used primarily to provide radiocarbon measurements. 
• Australian Quaternary Data Archive
• CAPE (Circumpolar Arctic PaleoEnvironments)
• The Delphi Project Data for marine geological paleoclimate research
• Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) Climate and Environmental Data Retrieval and Archive.  DKRZ is a "service center for climate researchers in Germany," created under the aegis of the Federal Minister for Research and Technology.  DKRZ's offers "computer resources and technical support in using these facilities to climate researchers all over Germany."
• FAUNMAP (US Quaternary Mammal Database)
• Global Continental Paleohydrology Project (GLOCOPH) 
• International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)  PAGES (PAst Global changES)
• Journal of Paleolimnology.
• University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR)
• Lund University, Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology (Sweden)
• National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimate Resources.
• Ocean Drilling Program (ODP).  Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and agencies in other participating countries under the management of Joint Oceanographic Institutions.
• Paleoclimate of Arctic Lakes and Estuaries (PALE).
• Paleobotany links.  Posted by Mineralogisches Institut, Universit�t W�rzburg (Germany)
• Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).  "Initiated in order to coordinate and encourage the systematic study of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and to assess their ability to simulate large changes of climate such as those that occurred in the distant past." PMIP is part of the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), established in 1989 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, California). Funded by the Environmental Science Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) as part of its Global Change Research Program.
• Radiocarbon.  "An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research.".
• Radiocarbon WEB-info.  From the University of Waikato, New Zealand.  "This resource is designed to provide online information concerning the radiocarbon dating method."
• Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (UK).
• Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand.
• Tephrabase Tephrochronological Database, University of Edinburgh (UK).  Tephra is the solid material produced from a volcanic eruption; layers of deposited tephra are useful in palaeoenvironmental studies.