| Institute_of_Physical_Chemistry_-_University_Halle Biological Model Membranes and monolayers, Lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals, X-Ray structure analysis and surface tension measurements. |
| P__E__Technikon_Department_of_Chemistry General information about the staff, students, courses offered as well as the research done in industrial catalysis, calorimetry, electrochemistry and environmental chemistry. |
| Physical_Chemistry_and_Colloid_Science Department at the Wageningen University. |
| BUBL_Link__Oceanographic_Data BUBL is an Internet-based library information service for the UK higher education community. Catalogues selected Internet resources in oceanography. |
| Center_For_Ocean-Atmospheric_Prediction_Studies_(COAPS)_Library,_Florida_State_University Aims to provide an effective and properly managed information resource for the teaching, learning and research needs of all members of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies and thereafte |
| Dalhousie_University Department of Oceanography Publication Library |
| Department_of_Environmental_&_Ocean_Engineering_Library,_University_of_Tokyo Contains limited information at this time (site under test). |
| Environmental_Science_Archives Consists of the Marine Environmental Science Collection of limited distribution documents, as well as archival fonds and bibliographies that document the activities of British Columbia scientists and |
| Fisheries_and_Oceanography_Library,_University_of_Washington,_US Catalog, journal database, electronic journals and reference and information services provided by the University of Washington Libraries. |
| Indian_Ocean_Rim_Region___Virtual_Library Contains searchable research data related to Social Development in the Indian Ocean Rim Region. |
| Institute_of_Ocean_Sciences_Library,_Fisheries_and_Oceans,_Canada Includes policies, regulations, publications, indexes and bibliographies. Contact details. |
| Intergovernmental_Oceanographic_Commission_(IOC)_Electronic_Library Free and unrestricted access to technical manuals, guides, IOC publications and a wealth of other reference documents. |
| Marine_Biological_Laboratory/Woods_Hole_Oceanographic_Institution_Library,_US An open stack research library whose collections and services are developed and maintained for support of the Woods Hole scientific community. Contains over 200,000 volumes. Most of the holdings are s |
| Matthew_Fontaine_Maury_Oceanographic_Library,_US_Naval_Oceanographic_Office Large technically diverse military-oriented collection of physical oceanography materials, including journals, maps, charts, tide tables, books, technical reports, conference proceedings and translati |
| Maury_Oceanographic_Library United States Department of Defense oceanographic library. |
| Miller_Marine_Biology_Library_at_Stanford_University Marine geology and physical oceanography indexes, catalogs and information resources. |
| National_Marine_Biological_Library The NMBL contains one of the world's major collections of literature on aquatic sciences and fisheries, and acts as a marine biological sciences resource for the UK. |
| National_Oceanic_&_Atmospheric_Administration_(NOAA)_Central_Library Comprehensive oceanographic collection available to students, researchers, scientists, and the general public for on-site use or through interlibrary loan service. The catalog is remotely accessible v |
| National_Sea_Grant_Library Comprehensive collection of Sea Grant funded documents. Document database is searchable online and many documents are available as full-text PDFs. Hard copy loans are also available. |
| Ocean_and_Coastal_Law_Center_Library,_University_of_Oregon The library is funded in part by the Oregon State University Sea Grant College Program as part of the law school's Ocean and Coastal Law Center. It is an essential information resource for Center, fac |
| Pell_Marine_Science_Library,_University_of_Rhode_Island,_US Access the library's holdings via HELIN, the online catalog. The National Sea Grant Depository (NSGD), an archive of all Sea Grant funded documents) is also held here. Documents are lent all over the |
| Rosenstiel_School_of_Marine_and_Atmospheric_Science_Library,_University_of_Miami,_US Has one of the major marine science collections in the United States and is especially strong in the literature of tropical oceanography, specifically of Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America. It s |
| Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography_Archives Collection and services on the history of oceanography: photographs, moving images, and personal papers of eminent oceanographers. |
| Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography_Library Oceanography, climatology, earth science & marine biology resources on the Internet maintained by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, University of California. |
| UK_National_Oceanographic_Library Includes the Oceanis database system, containing over 255,000 records covering the fields of ocean and earth sciences. |
| University_of_Washington_Oceanography_Information_Gateway Full listing of documents, bibliographies, data and other holdings held at Washington University Libraries. |
| Wolfson_(Ocean_Sciences)_Library,_University_of_Wales_Bangor Contains books, periodicals, theses, reports and materials in microform on all subjects of interest to the School of Ocean Sciences. Appropriate indexes and abstracts are in stock, and online bibliogr |
| World-Wide_Web_Virtual_Library__Oceanography A virtual library referencing oceanography related universities, organisations, conferences and other information resources. |
| GEOS-Chem_model A global three-dimensional model of atmospheric composition driven by assimilated meteorological observations from the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) |
| GO_CART_model Simulates major tropospheric aerosol components, including sulfate, dust, black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), and sea-salt aerosols. |
| IMAGE_-_Atmospheric_Chemistry Calculates the concentrations of the most important greenhouse gases and other reactive gases. |
| MOZART_(Model_of_Ozone_and_Related_Tracers) A global chemistry and transport model |
| RIAM-CFORS_(Chemical_weather_FORecast_System) A global chemical transformation and transport model. |
| Unified_Chemistry_Transport_Model_(UCTM)__Model Designed and developed to study both tropospheric and stratospheric photochemistry. |
| A_Collection_of_Lecture_Notes Various topics by Franz Lemmermeyer. |
| Elementary_and_Algebraic_Number_Theory Course Notes by Ivan Fesenko, University of Nottingham. PS, PDF. |
| Elementary_and_Analytic_Number_Theory Lecture notes by William Chen, used at Imperial College, University of London (PDF). |
| Elementary_Number_Theory Lecture notes by Nigel Byott, University of Exeter (DVI,PDF,PS). |
| Elementary_Number_Theory Lecture notes by Michael Filaseta, University of South Carolina, Fall 1997 (PS). |
| Expositions_and_Notes Topics in Sieve Theory and Combinatorial Number Theory. Ben Green, University of Bristol. |
A few people are sayingthat the recent warming could be part of a natural cycle. But afurther fact from IPCC. "The present CO2 concentration has notbeen exceeded in the last 420,000 years." This is based on CO2concentrations measured directly from Antarctic ice cores, which alsorecord 4 glacial-interglacial cycles over this time period. In fact,IPCC think that there is more CO2 in the air we are breathing nowthan at any time in the last 20 million years. This is long beforeour ancestors first stood upright (about 5 million years ago) andshows what a significant global climate event is taking place. In theface of these observations, and the well-established effects ofincreasing greenhouse gases (GHGs), it is hard to escape theconclusion that if we do nothing we face a continuing rise in globaltemperature that will lead to global ecological disaster by the endof this century. So why aren't we doing something? The GHG problem is extremelydangerous to our civilization because we are predisposed to ignoreit. We are visual animals, and have evolved over the last few millionyears to respond to immediate and visible threats (predators orenemies). Indeed, the success of your ancestors in dealing with thesethreats has allowed you to read this column. GHGs, however, are aninvisible and slowly increasing threat, and they are all the moredangerous because their inevitable consequences come decades afterthe pollution itself.The GHG problem is all the more difficult because it requires us tofocus not on creating new wealth, but on preserving the environmentin which we live (and have largely taken for granted). Aneffective response will require long term vision and planning atinternational and national levels, so that the costs of the remediesare spread equitably through the community. A huge and complex task,but now the message is clear. The problem is rapidly becomingcritical, and we will need our best intelligence and technology torestore our lifestyle to one that is sustainable for our children andtheir children. The international community has already shown, through the MontrealProtocol of 1987, that we can recover from global atmosphericpollution - in that case leading to the loss of stratospheric ozoneand UV protection. The Kyoto Protocol deals with a more complexproblem, and is a small step forward, but it is also a necessary stepin the right direction. A final thought. The earth has experienced around 40 glacial andinterglacial cycles over the last two million years, and ourancestors survived all of these living a fairly basic life style insmall communities. Our oldest civilizations developed a little over6000 years ago, around the time that sea level and climate stabilisedafter the most recent glaciation. Maybe this was because the last6000 years has been the longest period of climate stability in thelast 2 million years - grand irony with the threat of climaticinstability from our technological success.PeterBarrett 10 May 2002More information on theinformation produced by IPCC can be seen on their web site at:http://www.ipcc.ch GSNZHome