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2-13: Earth System Science

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Cooling on Antarctica
  
  

Websites

• Ecological Footprint
  
  
• Earth Systems Science- Mission to Planet Earth and the EOS Program (From the Applied Information Sciences Branch, NASA)
  
  
• Geographic Information Systems- The GIS Approach to Decision Making (From Applied Information Sciences Branch, NASA)
  
  
• US GLOBEC home page
  
  
• NASA Earth System Science Education
  
  

Additional References

• Lawler, A., 2004: Stormy forecasts for climate science. Science, 305, 1094-1097.
  
  
• Doran, P. T., J. C. Priscu, W. B. Lyons, J. E. Walsh, A. G. Fountain, D. M. McKnight, D. L. Moorhead, R. A. Virginia, D. H. Wall, G. D. Clow, C. H. Fritsen, C. P. McKay, and A. N. Parsons, 2002: Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response. Nature, 15, 517-520.
  
  
• Graedel, T. E., and Paul J. Crutzen, 1993: Atmospheric Change. An Earth System Perspective. W. H. Freeman and Co. New York, 446 pp.