GCMD (Global Change Master Directory), provided by NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, is a comprehensive source of information about satellite and in situ Earth science data.

 

USGCRP (U.S. Global Change Research Program) works with research institutions all over the world and provides the foundation for increasing the skill of predictions of seasonal and interannual climate fluctuations as well as long term climate change.

 

EGCH (Environment and Global Change Research) at the National Science Foundation.

 

UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program) was a consequence of the 1972 Stockholm Conference of the Human Environment.

 

WCRP (World Climate Research Program) encompasses the studies of the global atmosphere, oceans, sea and land ice, and the land surface as well as their coupling.

 

IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Program) is an interdisciplinary scientific activity established and sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).

 

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UNEP to assess the most up-to-date scientific, technical and socio-economic research in the field of climate change.

 

GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Vivien Gornitz has compared tide-gauge records and radiocarbon-dated geologic data from four widely separated regions, spanning a broad range of geologic settings, in order to remove any long-term geologic trends present in the recent instrumental records.

 

Hawaii Sea Grant Global Change Education web site includes a report on the probability and potential impacts of sea level rise.

 

EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) maintains an educational site which focuses on the impact of rising sea level on US coasts.