Links

Cryrosphere - Montana 2007

• Glacier National Park

http://www.nps.gov/glac/

• Glacier Institute

http://www.nps.gov/glac/supportyourpark/glacierinstitute.htm

• NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center

http://nsidc.org/

Hydrosphere - Bermuda 2006

• Counting Corals

http://www.countingcorals.org/index.html

• Bermuda Biological Station for Research

http://www.bbsr.edu/
http://www.bbsr.edu/About_BBSR/Visitor_Information/visitor_information.html

Hydrosphere - Bahamas 2005

• Caribbean Marine Research Center

http://www.cmrc.org/

• Perry Institute for Marine Science

http://www.perryinstitute.org/

Biosphere - Maine 2004

• Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve web site

http://www.wellsreserve.org/

• Wright Center web site

http://www.tufts/edu/as/wright_center

• University of New England web site

http://www.une.edu/
http://www.une.edu/cas/envstudies/

• Mt. Agamenticus

http://www.yorkmaine.org/ykpkrec/mta.htm

• Maine Geological Survey - Coastal Maine Field Trip - Ogunquit, Maine

http://www.state.me.us/doc/nrimc/pubedinf/crest/fieldtrips/york/marginal.htm

• Maine Geological Survey - Teacher activities

http://www.state.me.us/doc/nrimc/pubedinf/crest/activity/acthome.htm

• Geologic History of Maine

http://www.state.me.us/doc/nrimc/pubedinf/factsht/bedrock/megeol.htm#Glacial

General Workshop Announcements - 2004

• International Leadership Institute for Biodiversity Education

World Wildlife Fund and Disney's Animal Kingdom are looking for 40 leaders to participate in "The International Leadership Institute for Biodiversity Education " to be held at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando Florida, October 11-16, 2004. The institute is open to leaders from across the country who work at the local, state or national level, have a broad reach, and experience in developing programs and creating partnerships. There is no cost for institute tuition, educational materials, and housing during the institute. Complete information about the institute and an application form can be found at www.worldwildlife.org/windows/institute.cfm. Applications are due to World Wildlife Fund by June 11, 2004. If you have questions, please contact Betty Olivolo at World Wildlife Fund at edmail@wwfus.org.

Cryosphere - Montana 2003

• Glacier National Park is Losing its Glaciers (animation)

http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/images/glacier_animation_slow.gif

• Geologic Time Scale

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/gtime/Gtimescale.pdf

• Global, Environmental, and Outdoor Education Council

A tremendous source of workshops, materials, lesson plans from Alberta Teacher’s Association
http://www.geoec.org/

• Art and remotely sensed images

Dr Lydia Dambekalns, University of Wyoming, Department of Art Education
http://smtc.uwyo.edu/edparc/

• EarthKAM remote sensed images

Cool programs/images to learn more about interpreting remotely sensed images
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/images/index.shtml

• NASA-Aqua

Unbelievable images of earth's IR radiation
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11546

• NASA Earth Ascience Enterprise Education Catalogue

Good reseource for NASA deucational materials
http://earth.nasa.gov/education

• Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium (UMAC)

http://www.umac.org/climate/regional.html

• Grinnell Glacier

http://www.umac.org/new/month.html

• Nebraska Earth Science Education Network

http://nesen.unl.edu/

• Bering Land Bridge Animation

Very cool animation showing great temporal and spatial change of the Bering
http://instaar.Colorado.EDU/QGISL/bering_land_bridge/

• Polar Science Education Teacher Workshop

Power pont presentations from the Polar Science Education Teacher Workshop, Goddard Space Flight Center, April, 2003
http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/~brianc/speaker_bios1.html

• ICEsat satellite system

http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• The International School Project ESPERE-ENC

http://www.espere.net/school.html

• Colby College geology links page

http://www.colby.edu/geology/Quatresources.html

• EarthKAM

http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/

• Earth Science Education Products and Resources

http://earth.nasa.gov/education/catalog/products.html

• Climate Change Calculator

A fun, easy-to-use tool to learn more about climate change and your personal impact
http://www.climcalc.net/

• GISP2 Homepage

http://www.gisp2.sr.unh.edu/GISP2

• GRIP Homepage

http://www.esf.org/lp/lp_013.htm

• University of Buffalo Science and Engineering library

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/sources/climateweather.html#cl

• National Snow and Ice Data Center-

http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu

• Goddard Institue for Space Studies

 http://www.giss.nasa.gov

• National Climate Data Center

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

• US Global Change Info Center

http://gcrio.ciesin.org/overview.html

• EPA Global Warming

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/climate/index.html

• Dendrochronology

http://www.ltrr.arizonia.edu/people/henri/lorim/lori.htm

• Dendrochronology

http://www.pbs.org/audubon/wildwings/dendro.html

• Antarctic Meteorology Research Page

http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrchome.html

• ITASE

http://www.secretsoftheice.org

• Danish GRIP project

http://www.glaciology.gfy.ku.dk/Icecores.htm

• NOAA publications/products (polar slide set)

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

• C-130 aircraft fact sheet

http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/C_130_Hercules.html

• Antarctica maps/gifts

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/

• Antarctic "Cod"

http://www.afprotein.com/noto.htm

• The Antarctic Circle- resource for historical, cultural, literary, artistic aspects of Antarctica

http://www.antarctic-circle.org/

• Wired Antarctica educational material

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/People/Students/ginny/antarctica/people.htm

• Earth Update

Rice Space Institute developed this CD-ROM, which contains Earth science information, movies, and classroom activities. The CD is suitable as a stand-alone museum kiosk or for use in a school classroom or library. If the user's computer is connected to the Internet, today's data can be downloaded with a single click. Each "sphere" (Atmosphere, Biosphere, Cryosphere, Geosphere, and Hydrosphere) can be run separately or as the linked Earth Update. Each sphere includes sections: What (What is the atmosphere), Who (Who studies the biosphere), Why (Why do we study the cryosphere?), and How (How do we study the geosphere?). Classroom activities aligned with national science, math, and geography standards are included on the CD. Recommended for: K-12 and informal education. http://earth.rice.edu/connected/earthupdate.html
http://core.nasa.go

• Exploring the Environment

Online, problem-based modules developed by NASA's Classroom of the Future for K-4,5-8, and 9-12 teachers and students. Modules address events such as volcanoes, hurricanes, dinosaur extinction theories, deforestation, endangered species, and global change. Recommended for: K-12.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete

• From a Distance: An Introduction to Remote Sensing/GIS/GPS

This Web site was developed and is maintained by NASA John C. Stennis Space Center. It includes lesson plans on remote sensing for Grades K-3, 4-8, and 9-12 and links to related education resources. Recommended for: K-12.
http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/ltp

• Earth Expeditions

This exciting multimedia learning tool places middle-school students on a research vessel where they run computer climate models to predict how climate in regions around the world may change as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. Students are charged with determining how climate in four regions of the world (Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland; Europe and western Russia; western tropical Pacific; and sub-Saharan Africa) may change over the next 100 years as human population continues to increase and non-industrialized nations become industrialized. Their conclusions will help officials advise nations around the world of the potential risks of increased carbon emissions. Students follow the scientific method by testing a given hypothesis on future climate patterns. Computer climate models, a data center and instructional movies are located within the research center to assist them. Recommended for: middle-high school.
http://www.PlanetEarthScience.com

• Landsat-7 Datasets: LAN Files for Use with MultiSpec

The Landsat 7 Download site provides a number of Landsat 7 scene subsets as LAN files that are intended for use with Purdue University's MultiSpec software. Users also have the option of downloading TIFF files in four different band combinations. The web site includes links to the MultiSpec download page at Purdue. Also included are links to a MultiSpec tutorial developed for the GLOBE program that is designed such that the user runs the tutorial and MulitSpec together. It uses animations and interactive elements to demonstrate the functions of MultiSpec and how to use them to analyze Landsat images. There is an Introduction to Remote Sensing PowerPoint presentation with detailed notes that can be downloaded in PPT or at lower resolution in PDF format. The site will be periodically updated with new images. Recommended for: middle school - undergraduate college.
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/l7downloads/download.html

• The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change

This set of inquiry-based, classroom-ready activities for grades 1-12 includes 12 modules. Produced to provide an overview of climate change, these modules also examine the relationship of climate change to areas such as agriculture, coastal areas, forestry, human health, and water. They contain activities developed with the purpose of introducing students to current research about the potential impacts of climate variability and change. Each activity responds to national education standards in the English language arts, geography, social studies, mathematics, and science. Recommended for: grades 1-12.
http://www.strategies.org/CLASS.html#Climate

• World Watcher: Global Warming Project

Global warming and its potential impact provide the context for this unit, in which students learn about the scientific factors contributing to the debate. Students act as advisors to the heads of state of several nations, and explore the issues as they respond to the various questions and concerns of these leaders. Activities include a combination of physical labs and investigations using World Watcher software, a geographic data visualization tool. Developed by Northwestern University. Recommended for: middle school and higher.
http://www.worldwatcher.northwestern.edu

• Arctic Observatory/Sea Ice in the Polar Regions

The Arctic Observatory includes a teacher's guide and interactively deals with Arctic phenomena and processes, allowing students to ask and answer questions about interrelationships between several physical aspects of the Arctic system. Sea Ice in the Polar Regions is a presentation that describes sea ice classification, observation and climate impacts. Both resources are available on one CD-ROM from NASA CORE. Recommended for: high school-adult.
http://www.usra.edu/esse/learnmod.html
http://core.nasa.gov

• Climate Change Presentation Kit, 1999

This CD-ROM is offered as a resource to help prepare talks for students or the general public. The toolkit allows teachers the option of picking and choosing the components that they would need to communicate climate change issues to audiences. It contains fact sheets, a PowerPoint slide presentation, and interactive activities that are designed to interest audiences of all levels. Recommended for: elementary school-college educators.
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/globalclimate.html

• DataSlate

DataSlate is a multi-curricular image visualization tool for students. It allows students to easily and quickly maneuver through huge image data sets, overlay and compare images gathered over time, or with different instruments, and observe historical, geographical, geological, and environmental change or to compare images of the same area at different wavelengths. DataSlate includes a CD-ROM (with 12 sample data sets and 12 sample lesson plans), video, and teachers' guide. Recommended for: middle-high school.
http://casde.jpl.nasa.gov/dataslate

• Discover Earth Classroom Materials

Discover Earth classroom materials were developed during a series of teacher workshops sponsored by NASA and implemented by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in collaboration with the Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Earth and Mineral Sciences Environmental Institute, The Pennsylvania State University. Modules include: Earth as a System; Albedo versus Temperature; Ozone; and Where Does the Rain Go? Each module includes: Key Concepts and Terms; Resources; Background for Teachers; and Classroom Investigations. Recommended for: grades 5-12.
http://www.strategies.org/CLASS.html#Discover

• Global Systems Science (GSS)

The GSS Student Books, developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, can be combined in various ways to create an interdisciplinary high school course. In the GSS approach, students integrate the traditional disciplines to probe the interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, ice, solid Earth, and living organisms that shape Earth's evolution and its future. Students study the traditional disciplines, not as ends in themselves, but as tools for a scientific understanding of Earth as an integrated system. Recommended for: grades 9-12, the following GSS books have been approved by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/GSS):

      • GSS Teachers' Guide
      • New World View
      • Climate Change
      • Losing Biodiversity
      • Energy Flow

• CERES-Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Brochure

This brochure gives a brief description of the science research that is being done with data from the CERES instrument flying onboard NASA's Terra satellite. It also contains some of the data products, as well as gives some technical specifications. Recommended for: Undergraduate, graduate, professional.
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/misc_html/ceres.html

• Geomorphology from Space, 1986

An out-of-print NASA classic publication, by Nick Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr., is now available on CD-ROM and on the Web. This publication is designed for use by the remote-sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes. It contains a gallery of 237 color, and black and white plates of space imagery primarily of the Earth, each treating a geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified. Each image is paired with a detailed scientific description of the features in the image; some images are accompanied by line drawings, locator maps, geologic maps, and on-the-ground photographs of the landform. Available on CD-ROM from NASA CORE. Recommended for: high school-adult.
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_HOME_PAGE.html
http://core.nasa.gov

• MODIS Brochure

The first NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite, called Terra, was launched on December 18, 1999, carrying five remote sensors. The most comprehensive EOS sensor is MODIS,the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. MODIS offers a unique combination of features: it detects a wide spectral range of electromagnetic energy; it takes measurements at three spatial resolutions (levels of detail); it takes measurements all day, every day; and it has a wide field of view. This continual, comprehensive coverage allows MODIS to complete an electromagnetic picture of the globe every two days. Recommended for: post secondary and resource for informal educators.
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/misc_html/modis.html

• Studying Earth's Environment from Space

This material consists of four modules: Stratospheric Ozone; Global Land Vegetation; Oceanography; and Polar Sea Ice Processes. The modules are designed to increase the use of satellite data in science classrooms by providing lecture materials in HTML for the classroom (including full-color, printable graphics) that are linked to guided-inquiry computer exercises. The current software package used for the computer exercises is a modified version of the Macintosh platform's NIH-Image. This software, called SEE Image, also has been tested and runs on a PC that is equipped with a Macintosh emulator. Recommended for: high school-undergraduate.
http://see.gsfc.nasa.gov/edu/SEES

• Glacier Bay, Alaska, From the Ground, Air and Space, 1996

Brings glaciers to life with nine spectacular "fly-bys" of scenic rides over 3-dimensional glaciers, live video footage of ice fronts calving into the sea, and dramatic picture sequences of historical and satellite data, and shows how a NASA glaciologist has learned about glaciers and how their formation could be related to climate change. Length:13:15. Recommended for: grade 5-adult.
http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/GLACIER.BAY/ glacierbay.story.html
http://core.nasa.gov

• Our Home: Earth from Space

Two student moderators engage the audience with satellite imagery, newly developed computer graphics, and historical footage to make the point that the Earth is an interconnected system of air, land, water, and life. The video includes segments on: An introduction to Earth system science; Using satellites to look at Earth from space; El Niño; Global Warming; Drought; Hurricanes (2:03), and an epilogue. Length: 22:00.
http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/video/
http://core.nasa.gov