Links

University of Minnesota - Department of Civil Engineering

• Applying to graduate school
• Scholarships
• Employment
• Undergraduate co-op
• Marshall's departmental website

University of Minnesota - other

• Funding opportunities
• Engineers Without Borders - UMN chapter
• Graduate study in atmospheric sciences, UMN
• Graduate study in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, UMN
• Human-Environment Geographic Information Science laboratory, UMN

Journals

• Atmospheric Environment
• Environmental Science & Technology
• Energy Policy
• Environmental Health Perspectives
• Environmental Research Letters
• Journal of Transport and Land Use
• Urban Studies

Environmental data

• Several databases are available via Mike Toffel and Julian Marshall's environmental data website
• Global meteorological data, 1957 - 2002
• EPA SCRAM meteorological data
• DOE Energy Information Agency
• Satellite measurements of nitrogen dioxide
• US Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) pollution map - Scorecard
• US Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) pollution map - MapEcos
• Fuel economy for new vehicles
• Evaluations and recommendations for carbon offsets are available here (from Tufts Climate Initiative) and here (from Clean Air Cool Planet)

Resources for students

• Energy fact sheets
• Dan Kammen's introduction to opportunities and resources in energy and environmental science & policy
• HEGIS provides several student resources, including ideas on how to be a (successful) graduate student and on asking for a letter of reference
• Molecular weight calculator

Urban carbon modeling

• Current market price of carbon on the European market
• Global Carbon Project
• Urban Climate Change Research Network
• Urban and Regional Carbon Management (URCM) Initiative
• Vulcan high-resolution CO2 emission estimates
• Vulcan Google Earth application
• Reports discussing urban carbon emissions include:
  • "The Greenness of Cities" by EL Glaeser and M Kahn; also available here
  • "Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America" by Sarzynski et al. (published by the Brookings Institute)
  • "Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change" by Ewing et al. (published by the Urban Land Institute & Smart Growth America)
  • "Transportation Emissions Guidebook, Part One: Land Use, Transit & Travel Demand Management" by Dierkers et al. (published by the Center for Clean Air Policy)
  • "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transportation Sources in Minnesota" by Boies et al. (published by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies); a summary for policy makers, titled "A Smaller Carbon Footprint," is also provided
  • "Strategies for Reducing the Impacts of Surface Transportation on Global Climate Change" by CJ Burbank of Parson Brinckerhoff (published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials [AASHTO] and the Transportation Research Board's National Cooperative Highway Research Program [TRB/NCHRP])

Other

• Vancouver cycling route planner
• Marshall's PhD Dissertation
• Global map of accessibility