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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is the most important institute for weather research in the country.

This is hurricane Emily at the North Carolina coast

Other places of interest include

Paleontology, Paleoclimatology

One of the first museum collections to appear on the Web was the Paleontology Museum at the University of California, Berkeley. Their home page is outstanding, enjoy it at

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu

If you are interested in Cladistics here is your Web connection:

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

Paleoclimatology has become an important area of research where earth and planetary scientists, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, chemists and many others join forces to study one of the most intriguing areas of research in geology: the geological history of climate. Paleoclimate data is extensive and easily avilable. Take a look and download some of the ice-core data fresh from Greenland!, at:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html


This document was prepared by J.A. Rial. (jar@email.unc.edu)