ESYS 10:  Term Papers

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Web links to get you started

National Weather Service
Reports to the Nation on our Changing Planet: EL Niño and climate
Economic Impact in Latin America
Pacific Marine Environment Lab El Niño Theme Page
1997-98 Event
NOAA El Niño Page
NOAA Office of Global Programs: ENSO
University of Washington El Niño links
University of Winnipeg El Niño links
Book: Glantz, M. H., Currents of Change: El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

NASA-Funded Scientists Join Others to Explore Tropical Rainforests
Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
Politics and Economics of Rainforest Destruction
Sustainable Rainforest Products
Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cultures in the Americas
Can Coffee Drinkers Save the Rain Forest? (Atlantic Monthly, August 1999)
Shade-Grown Coffee Web Resources
Rain-tree.com
Book: Plotkin, M. J., Tales of a shaman's apprentice: an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rainforest Viking, 1993.
Book: Wilson, E. O., The diversity of life, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

Surfrider Foundation
Clean Beach Initiative: Huntington State Beach
Urban Canyons in the City of San Diego
Mission Bay Water Quality
US and Mexican officials mark milestone in border sewage solution (Jan. 1999, U.S. Water News Online)
California Coastal Coalition: San Diego sewage waiver in jeopardy
San Diego Earth Times: Potentially harmful human viruses in coastal waters

Global sea level change: Determination and interpretation
Goddard Institute for Space Science: Sea Level Rise
US Geological Survey: Sea Level and Climate
Global Sea Level Rise To Inundate South Pacific Island This Weekend
Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country
South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring
Global sea levels likely to rise higher in 21st century than previous predictions
Climate Change 2001 (IPCC)
Climate Change 2001 (IPCC), The Scientific Basis, Ch. 11, Changes in Sea Level
Climate Change 2001 (IPCC), Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Ch. 17, Small Island States