Update for Links on

17. Wind and Deserts

 

 Site/URL

Comments/Changes

U.S. Department of Agriculture Wind Erosion Research Unit

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/

No Change in links.
However, under Part 1, "Multimedia Archive", skip question 2 - a "sandfighter" is no longer pictured.

National Geophysical Data Center

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

Links to "GIS Techniques Using NOAA Data Improve Monitoring of Desertification" are difficult to follow now. In adition, the page has been made a "case study" for GIS instruction. Some of the information can be obtained from the reformatted page, however. Go directly to the site, at:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/globsys/gisdes.shtml

Then answer the questions.

 United Nations Environment Programme Geneva Executive Center Switzerland

http://www.unep.ch/

The links have been changed.
From the home page accessed through the URL given, .take the link to the
Information Unit for Conventions (IUC)
Then navigate through Desertification (CCD
and choose the Information Kit and finally
Fact Sheets
Continue as instructed.

Smithsonian Institution, Drylands

http://drylands.nasm.edu:1995

 No Change

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