Many new items have been added to the Keith B. Mather’s collection recently. Among the new titles Geophysical Institute scientist Nicole Mölders’ book Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes: Impact on Climate and Air Quality (Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library) is now available.

Abstract:
Wildfires, changing glaciers, deforestation, open-pit mining, increasing demands for food and bio-fuel production and the growth of megacities change our landscape. The book comprehensively reviews the current knowledge on how natural and anthropologic land-use/cover changes affect weather, air quality and climate worldwide and explains how these changes may trigger further land-use/cover changes. It discusses how anthropologic land-use/cover changes have affected local and regional climate and air quality since the settlement of America and the industrialization. It addresses the topic how long-range transport of pollutants and dust of devastated areas as well as teleconnections may cause changes far away from the areas where the land-use/cover changes occurred, for which land-use/cover change may become an international issue similar to CO2. It also discusses relations to global change and future societal and scientific challenges related to land-use/cover changes.

Here is a list of the additional new books in alphabetical order by title:

Alaska Economic Trends - v.31, no. 10

Alaska’s Mineral Industry 2010 - DGGS Special Report 65 / by D.J. Szumigala, et al.

Arktis (German) / by Brando Quilici

The Atmosphere and the Ocean / by Neil C. Wells

The Global Cryosphere - Past, Present, and Future / by Roger Barry and Thian Yew Gan

Honmono (Genuine Goods) / by Emiko Iwasaki

Лёд и снег (Ice and Snow) (Russian) / edited by L.C. Dmitrieva

The New Quantum Age / by Andrew Whitaker

Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program -
    Vol. 313 - New Jersey Shallow Shelf (2010)
    Vol. 317 - Canterbury Basin Sea Level (2011)
    Vol.  320/321 - Pacific Equatorial Age Transect (2010)
    Vol. 323 - Bering Sea Paleoceanography (2011)
    Vol. 324 - Shatsky Rise Formation (2010)

Remote Sensing of Protected Lands / edited by Yeqiao Wang

Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions / by Chris Linder

State of the World 2010 / edited by Linda Starke and Lisa Mastny

A Student’s Guide to Geophysical Equations / by William Lowrie

These books are available for borrowing. Your suggestions are always welcome. For more information about the resources at the Keith B. Mather Library, visit staff in room 202 in the Akasofu Building, call 907-474-7512, or email them.