Changing Ecosystems

Overview

Recent Accomplishments

New Postings [June 2000 - July 2005]

Archived News Postings

Related Sites

Calls for Proposals

Please note, this is not a comprehensive list; contact the webmaster to suggest additions.

USGCRP

DOE, Biological and Environmental Research Program

• Ecosystem Research
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
• Integrated Assessment
• National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC)
• Oceans
• Terrestrial Carbon. Includes AmeriFlux and FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment):.

DOI, USGS, Global Change Research Program, Impacts on Biological Resources

NASA, Earth Science Enterprise

• Missions (see NASA's Earth Science Missions page for additional details)
  • Earth Observing System (EOS) @ Goddard Space Flight Center (Atmospheric Physics and Land Surface).  List of  Projects.
  • Earth Observing System (EOS) @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Oceanography).   List of  Projects.
  • Earth Observing System (EOS) @ Langley Research Center (Atmospheric Chemistry).  List of  Projects 
  • Earth Explorers @ Goddard Space Flight Center.   List of   Projects 
  • Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)

• Projects
  • CHAMP
  • EOS Aqua Project. Project centered around the Earth Observing Satellite Aqua.
  • Earth Observing System Data and Information Systme (EOSDIS)
  • Earth System Science Pathfinder Project (ESSP)
  • Landsat 7. A satellite used to acquire remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface and surrounding coastal regions.
  • SEASTAR/SeaWiFS. The SeaStar spacecraft, developed Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) that provides data on global ocean bio-optical properties.
  • Terra. The first Earth Observing System satellite "designed for a comprehensive check up of planet Earth."
  • Vegetation Canopy Lidar Mission (VCL)

NSF, Global Change Research Program

• Antarctic Ecosystems
• Arctic System Science
• Coastal Long-Term Ecological Research (cLTER/LMER)
• Earth System History
• Ecological Diversity
• Ecological Rates of Change
• GEODATA
• Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics.
• Global Tropospheric Chemistry Program
• Greenhouse Gas Dynamics
• Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). See also International JGOFS and US JGOFS sites.
• Methods and Models for Integrated Assessment
• Ocean Observation, Data Assimilation, and Modeling
• Polar Ozone Depletion/UV Radiation Effects
• Regional Research Institutes. The three regional institutes for global change research -- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, European Network for Research on Global Change and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research -- were created to facilitate the integration of global change research programs on a regional basis.
• Water & Energy: Atmospheric-Vegetative-Earth Interactions

Smithsonian

• National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
• National Museum of Natural History.   
• National Zoological Park.   
  • Conservation & Research Center's Spatial Analysis Laboratory
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. 
  • Research in Global Change
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 
  • Paleoecology and Panama Paleontology Project (PPP)
  • Plant Physiology & CO₂
    • Free Air Carbon Enhancement Project (FACE)
  • Tropical Marine Ecology
  • Forest Ecology

USDA

• Agricultural Research Service:

  • Agriculture and Rangeland Global Change
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service: Improved Response Models & UV-B Monitoring Network
• Forest Service
  • Forest Service Global Change Research Program
  • Forest Service Northern Global Change Research Program
• Natural Resources Conservation Service: Soil Carbon Studies

Other Links