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On Line Articles for Oral Report

The articles and links below are from on-line journals like Nature, New Scientist, Science News; university press releases, and the NSF-sponsored "Weather Notebook" from the Mt. Washington Observatory. Most of these links were made available from Science Central.

Note: Choose the article and date you want to present and sign up in class. Presentation times are assigned on a first come first serve basis. No more than two presentations will occur on any date. Weather articles with a date after their title will require you to click on the site's "month" link to access the article.

Date	Topic	Articles to Read
8/28	Location and Maps	Preparation Time
8/30	Location and Maps	Preparation Time
9/6	Location and Maps	Preparation Time
9/11	Location and Maps	Preparation Time
9/13	Biogeography and Maps	You Can Run, But You Can't Hide (cell phone-based tracking device) Flying Eye (aerial scanner can peer through dense foliage) Seeing Right through Australia (making the top kilometer of the Australian continent "as transparent as glass") Has GPS Lost Its Way? Purdue gives farmers 20-20 vision from 30,000 feet Tumors in Lake Michigan (malignant tumors on crustaceans) Deer overrun Iowa city, prompting drastic measures Invading Gobies Conquer Great Lakes Scientists fight a wood-boring invader that could change the landscape of North America
9/18	Biogeography	Life on Earth existed 2.7 billion years earlier than shown Coral Grief (African desert dust may cause coral reef decay) NASA Scientists Use Satellites to Help Track a Disease and Keep It Under Control Reforesting the Amazon not an easy task Soil erosion winding down, not revving up
9/20	Biogeography	Bioinvaders Proliferate in U.S. Waterways Cool salt water boosts plant growth Green Grass (climate changes plant distributions in the Rockies) May 7, 1999 Preserving Tennessee Valley Soils Mosquitoes Have Discriminating Tastes, UF Researchers Find New Insight on the Plains' Biggest Rains:Rocky Mountains Affect Midwest Flooding Scientists Test Riverside Soil as a Natural Purifying Agent Study Says It's Time to Test Water for More than Bacteria
9/25	Rivers	Rough Times for the Big Easy (New Orleans Flooding ) Thursday, August 5, 1999 Flooded out Waterways Carry Antibiotic Resistance Surface Water Not Always the Answer to Bangladesh Arsenic Pollution Problem
9/27	Rivers	First Direct Link Found Between Bacteria In Drinking Water And Stomach Ulcers Cleaning Up the Nuclear Weapons: Progress on Groundwater and Soil Restoration Is Limited, and New Technologies Are Needed
10/2	Glaciers	Ancient body found on northern BC glacier The Little Ice Age April 6, 1999 Alaska's Columbia Glacier Traveling at Record Pace
10/4	Glaciers	More water on the poles Rising Sea Shores Up the Coast
10/9	Glaciers	Isotope technology reveals glaciation history The big thaw New UNC-CH study explains variations in onset of ice ages
10/11	Weathering	MASSIVE POLLUTION DOCUMENTED OVER INDIAN OCEAN Lead in the Inner Cities
10/16	Weathering	Mediterranean repeatedly poisoned Radiation-resistant bacteria may clean up the nation’s worst waste sites Future imaging satellites to have everyday applications
10/18	Midterm Examination
10/23	The Seasons	When the Mediterranean was a desert Are we really dying for a tan? Seasonal Blood Pressure May 11, 1999
10/25	The Seasons	Sahara's abrupt desertification started by changes in Earth's orbit, accelerated by atmospheric and vegetation feedbacks Summers in the Big Apple Wednesday, August 4, 1999 Warming Globe and A Cooling Atmosphere Monday, July 5, 1999 The Weather Is Out of Control Friday, July 16, 1999
10/30	The Atmosphere	Return to Tunguska (expedition to investigate site of 1908 meteor impact) "Deep Impact" in Chesapeake Bay Growing space debris imperils satellites, astronauts Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (debate over the toxicity of second-hand smoke)
11/1	The Atmosphere	Smog impacts: Hurtling through airways, tiny particles may do more damage than previously assumed Household Appliances and Indoor Air Pollution Haze and Cleaning it up May 3-4
11/6	Atmospheric Heating	ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE REPORT CONCLUDES EVIDENCE IS ‘WEAK’ THAT ELECTRIC and MAGNETIC FIELDS CAUSE CANCER Magnetic Field Exposure Associated with Childhood Leukemia How sulphur from ships affects the climate The Year Without A Summer June 8, 1999 Heat Wave Warning System June 9, 1999 Born to Be Wild (new climate model shows that radical changes in local climates occur even without global warming)
11/8	Atmospheric Heating	Moonlight and global warming Special Investigation: Mobile Phones Jet contrails to be significant climate factor by 2050 Mobiles Phones Don't Fry the Brain, Just Warm It
11/13	Atmospheric Circulation	Most Recent Natural Disasters Were Not the Century's Worst, USGS Says El Ni�o Found To Be 124,000 Years Old Where is Mercury Deposition Coming From? Sloshing Seiches (how wind causes big waves on Lake Michigan ) April 19-20, 1999
11/15	Atmospheric Circulation	Pressure Gets to You (air pressure fluctuations can affect mental activity) Windmills of the past and the future May 24-26, 1999 Wind At Pictured Rocks April 8,1999 The trade winds Wednesday, July 28, 1999
11/20	Atmospheric Moisture	Q11 Atmospheric Moisture Rising sea temperatures, monsoons linked El Ni�o increased evaporation of Great Lakes Not To Worry -- Geographer Says Heat, Drought Are Par For The Climatological Course Salt
11/22	Atmospheric Moisture	Atmospheric Moisture Water Creeping Upriver On Northeastern Coast Irrigation Along Colorado's Front Range Cooling Mountains and Plains; Extremes in Weather,More Severe Storms, Fire Danger Could Result Driving in the fog May 13-14, 1999
11/27	Weather	Positive Lightning April 1 Weather in Chaos (problems in weather prediction) June 22, 1999 How Sundogs forecast the rain June 11, 1999
11/29	Weather	Weather for the Birds (how birds predict weather) June 18, 1999 Weather Tourism Thursday, July 29, 1999 Solar Tornadoes and Weather June 1, 1999 AND June 2, 1999 Was that a tornado or a microburst? Hurricane Food Monday, August 2, 1999 Tornado Rising
12/6	Weather	Losing Your Identity After A Tornado Thursday, July 22, 1999 Birdbursts (birds on weather radar) Monday, July 26, 1999

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