Global Change Info

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)

http://www.igbp.kva.se/cgi-bin/php/frameset.php

IGBP is an international scientific research programme built on interdisciplinarity, networking and integration. It addresses scientific questions where an international approach is the best or the only way to provide an answer. We add value to a large number of individual, national and regional research projects through integrating activities to achieve enhanced scientific understanding.

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)

http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/

IHDP is an international, interdisciplinary and non-governmental science organization, dedicated to promoting, catalyzing and coordinating research, capacity-building and networking on the human dimensions of global environmental change. It takes a social science perspective on global change and works at the interface between science and practice.

IHDP fosters high-quality research. The dynamics of land-use and land-cover change, interactions between institutions and global environment, human security, sustainable production and consumption systems as well as food and water issues, urbanization and the global carbon cycle are investigated in the context of global environmental change.

IHDP's programme is designed around its three main objectives of research, capacity building and networking. Increasingly these activities are carried out in collaboration with the international partner programmes on global environmental change: the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the International Programme on Biodiversity (DIVERSITAS). IHDP is also a scientific sponsor of the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) and collaborates with intergovernmental bodies, such as the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).

The North American Carbon Program (NACP)

http://www.nacarbon.org/nacp/

The central objective of the North American Carbon Program is to measure and understand the sources and sinks of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), and Carbon Monoxide (CO) in North America and in adjacent ocean regions.

Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)

http://www.fao.org/gtos/

GTOS is a programme for observations, modelling, and analysis of terrestrial ecosystems to support sustainable development.

GTOS facilitates access to information on terrestrial ecosystems so that researchers and policy makers can detect and manage global and regional environmental change.

FLUXNET

http://www.fluxnet.ornl.gov/fluxnet/index.cfm

FLUXNET, a "network of regional networks," coordinates regional and global analysis of observations from micrometeorological tower sites. The flux tower sites use eddy covariance methods to measure the exchanges of carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor, and energy between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. At present, over 300 tower sites are operating on a long-term and continuous basis. Researchers also collect data on site vegetation, soil, hydrologic, and meteorological characteristics at the tower sites.

Real Time Camera, Alaska

Ivotuk tower, Alaska

World Resources Institute- Carbon sequestration projects

http://climate.wri.org/sequestration.cfm

WRI and the Climate, Energy and Pollution program strive to protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.

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