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Geo 109 Course Reserves:

"Earth System" book back in your dorm room? Wondering whether the library reserve copy is available?

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Climate Change Institute (University of Maine):

Climate Change Institute: UMaine Orono
An interdisciplinary research unit organized to conduct research and graduate education focused on variability of Earth's climate, ecosystems, and other environmental systems and on the interaction between humans and the natural environment. The Institute provides expertise on climate-related matters to the people and governments of Maine, the Nation, and beyond.
Maine's Climate Future
This [2009] report [and it's 2015 update] consider past change over geologic time, recent evidence of accelerated rates of change, and the implications of continued climate change in Maine during the 21st century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions and their associated pollutants.

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Even if a coordinated response succeeds in eliminating excess greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, something that appears highly unlikely today, climate change will continue because the elevated levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) can persist in the atmosphere for thousands of years to come.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Web Site
The leading international organization for assessment of climate change.
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report : Working Group I
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report : Working Group II
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report : Working Group III
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report : Synthesis Report
Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report

Potentially Useful Geology Reference Works:

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) by Scott Elias (Editor); Cary Mock (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013

The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. Research in the Quaternary sciences has advanced greatly in the last 10 years, especially since topics like global climate change, geologic hazards and soil erosion were put high on the political agenda. This second edition ...contains 357 broad-ranging articles (4310 pages) written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with a ready reference resource for information in the field.
Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics by Carl Seyfert (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006

Online access to the Encyclopedia is available here. Note that online access is provided through web browser only. Content is not available for download.
Note that a physical copy of this Encyclopedia is also available in the Bates reference stacks.
Glossary of Geology by Klaus K.E. Neuendorf; James P. Mehl Jr.; Julia A. Jackson
Publication Date: 2011

A primary source for geoscience terminology containing nearly 40,000 entries. Not sure about the difference between sylvanite and sylvinite? This reference work is a great place to find out.

Potentially Useful Periodicals:

Nature Climate Change
dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the science of climate change, its impacts and wider implications for the economy, society and policy.
Access: 10/01/2010 to present
Climatic Change
An interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change.
Access: 01/01/1997 to present
Journal of Climate
Climate research concerned with large-scale variability of the atmosphere, oceans, and land surface, including the cryosphere; past, present and projected future changes in the climate system (including those caused by human activities); climate simulation and prediction.
Access: 01/01/1988 to present.

Annual Reviews Complete A-Z List
Biomedical, Physical and Social Sciences. Coverage: 1930-present

Each year Annual Reviews provides authoritative, analytic reviews of significant primary research literature in over 30 focused disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences, guiding one to new contributions in each field.

Periodical Indexes/Databases Useful for Climate Issues:

GeoScienceWorld
Perform full text searches of content from all 46 GeoScienceWorld journals. Also search the 4.6 million citations indexed in GeoRef.
GeoScienceWorld allows you to search by geographic location as well as by keyword. Quickly limit your search area using the convenient world map.
GeoRef
Geology/geosciences. Coverage: 1669 to present (North America); 1933 to present (World)
Geoscience geochemistry
environmental geology
hydrology
economic geology
geophysics
petrology
paleontology
marine geology
oceanography
mineralogy

GeoRef is the most comprehensive bibliographic database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 100,000 references a year. The database contains over 3.6 million references from more than 3,500 journals to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Subjects covered include geochemistry, environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy.
Scopus
Sciences and Social Sciences.
CogPrints
ArXiv.org
OAI
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
European Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
UK Intellectual Property Office

SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Academic Search Complete
Full text journals and magazines in virtually every area of academic study. Coverage: Usually mid-1990s to present
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Environment Complete
Environmental policy and studies. Coverage: 1950s to present

Environment Complete contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.

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