Crossing Boundaries

"Uses satellite images to look at changes in glaciers over time. "

"Investigate the devastating earthquakes in January 2010 and compare them to past earthquakes using GIS as the investigative tool. Examine fault lines, population, ocean floors, plate boundaries, volcanoes, and other data to get a complete understanding of the physical and cultural geography of the Caribbean Sea region. "

"GLOBE at Night is an annual citizen-science campaign that encourages people all over the world to record the brightness of their night sky. For two weeks every March, when the Moon is not out during the early evening and the constellation of Orion can be seen by everyone everywhere, children and adults match the appearance of Orion with 7 star maps of progressively fainter stars found on the website, www.globeatnight.org. They then submit their measurements (e.g., which star map they chose) on-line with their date, time and location."

"A transcontinental highway under construction in Peru and Brazil is bringing the prospects of economic opportunity and environmental ruin to some of the most remote places on the planet. NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and staff photographer John Poole traveled the Peruvian route to produce this series."

Web-based tool that provides land owners, managers, and planners with the most current climate change science available * compiles climate change projections, literature-based impacts and management options, and Forest Service land and resource management plans in an online database; * synthesizes these inputs based on user-defined criteria; and * creates an optional customized report to aid forest planning and management. "

"virtual data repository", providing a gateway to information from a variety of data centers and web sites, including those of federal and state governments, academia, private industry, and wind energy-related trade associations. The tools and interfaces on this site have been designed to facilitate the discovery, visualization, subsetting, and downloading of this information.

This is a set of GIS lessons from IAGT.

The strategy provides recommendations for developing effective biosphere reserves and a framework for the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. It introduces the history of the Biosphere Reserves and the concept before outlining the vision and strategy as developed from the conference in Seville. Organization: UNESCO: MAB programme Sourced from: Report based on International Conference on Biosphere reserve

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or in your area of interest. Users may choose a county, town, or watershed, or they may specify their own location on a map. They will then receive a list of the animals, plants, and significant natural communities that have been found there, as documented in databases maintained by NYS DEC.

# Many Planets, One Earth # Atmosphere # Oceans # Ecosystems # Human Population Dynamics # Risk, Exposure, and Health # Agriculture # Water Resources # Biodiversity Decline # Energy Challenges # Atmospheric Pollution # Earth's Changing Climate # Looking Forward: Our Global Experiment