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Julie Cole, University of Colorado
Robert Dunbar, Stanford University
Henri Grissino-Mayer, Valdosta State University
Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University


General
Paleoclimatology
NOAA Educator's Page
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/education.html


Dendrochronology
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine
Leonard Miller
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/

Principles of Dendrochronology
Henri Grissino-Mayer
http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/principles.htm

Talking Trees: A living diary of climate
The Why Files
http://whyfiles.org/021climate/ringers.html

Tree-Ring Data
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treering.html

Tree Rings
Bruce Palmer, Missouri Conservationist Online, Oct. 1996
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/conmag/1996/oct/7.html

Tree Rings: A Study of Climate Change
Athena: Earth and Space for K-12
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/global/treestel.html


Ice Cores
Antarctic Ice Cores and Environmental Change
Australian Antarctic Division
http://mulliken.chem.hope.edu/~polik/warming/IceCore/IceCore2.html

Bowen, Mark, "Thompson's Ice Corps". Natural History, February 1998, p. 28.


Coral Reefs
1997 El Niño a Potential Threat to Coral Reefs
NOAA's Reporter's Coral Reef Tip Sheet
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/iyorwk26.html

Coral Paleoclimatology: What can corals tell us about climate?
NOAA Office of Global Programs
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/outreach/coral/coralintro.html

Garni, Anita, The Oceans Atlas. Dorling Kindersley: London, New York, Stuttgart, 1994.

How has the Earth's Climate Changed? Coral Cores May Tell the Tale
NOAA Reporter's Tip Sheet #7
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/iyorwk7.html

Research Article: Corals-Providing a Baseline for Climate Change
JASON Project
http://www.jason.org/expeditions/jason7/curriculum/coral.html




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