General/Miscellaneous
Resources
Museletter by Richard Heinberg.
Essays by Richard Heinberg, on such
topics as: Geopolitics; Energy; Oil
depletion; Civilization and its unintended
consequences; Economics from a contrarian
perspective; Suggestions for how
to weather the coming energy transition.
The NASA SMD Education E-News is
a free monthly email newsletter.
To subscribe, please send an email
to esenewsletter@strategies.org
with “Subscribe” as the
subject.
Current and back issues of this
report are available on the Web
Environmental News Network -- http://www.enn.com/
-- daily environmental news.
NASA's Global
Change Master On-line Directory (GCMD)
2008 --
Provides descriptions of Earth science
data sets and services relevant
to global change research. More
than 10,600 descriptions of Earth
and environmental science data,
with information on how to obtain
the data and/or direct links to
data sources. The individual data
set descriptions were contributed
by more than 1,300 data centers,
government agencies, universities,
research institutions and private
researchers around the world. The
directory is organized by topics:
Agriculture, Atmosphere, Biosphere,
Human Dimensions, Hydrosphere, Land
Surface, Oceans, Paleoclimate, Radiance/Imagery,
Solid Earth, Snow and Ice and Sun-Earth
Interactions.
Earth & Sky's 90-second radio
shows are available online. Download
shows to a computer or subscribe
at http://www.earthsky.org/extra/subscribe.
Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
- Earth Observatory Library
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/
- Earth Observatory --Natural
Hazards (drought, fire, volcanoes, floods, severe
storms, dust and smoke) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/
- Newsroom--new images seven
days a week at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/
- Disintegration
of the Ninnis Glacier Tongue shows that the
large glacier tongue of the Ninnis Glacier on the
coast of East Antarctica has disintegrated, changing
the shape of the coastline almost overnight.
- From
the Top of the World to the Bottom of the Food Web
-- a comprehensive web site which addresses the
topic of NASA's ocean color satellite instruments.
- Frozen
Soils and the Climate System -- the role that
frozen soils play within the Earth's climate system.
- Hurricanes--In
the Eyewall of the Storm (DAAC Study)-- A new
study using CAMEX-3 hurricane data reveals the role
of "hot towers" in increasing a storm's
fury.
- NASA images http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/photos.html
- Ocean--
John Martin devoted his career to understanding
the basic chemical processes that govern life in
the ocean. His famous "iron hypothesis"
introduced a controversial method for lowering worldwide
carbon dioxide emissions by simply dumping iron
into the oceans.
- Pinatubo--Astronauts
Photographs
- http://teachearth.com
- Real color images of Earth
taken from a camera on the International Space Station
-- http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/
- Dropping
in on a Hurricane -- By dropping
small sensors into hurricanes
from above, scientists are acquiring
data at high altitudes that will
help them better understand the
structure and dynamics of hurricanes.
- Rain
Helps Carbon Sink -- Forests
and other vegetation in the U.S.
consume about a quarter of the
carbon dioxide gas the country
produces each year. Over the
past few decades the size of
this ìcarbon sinkî
has been growing. NASA researchers
now believe increased rain and snowfall
are encouraging plant growth, which
in turn are sequestering carbon dioxide.
- Prospecting
from Orbit -- With help from
the ASTER instrument aboard the
NASA's Terra satellite, scientists
at the U.S. Geological Survey
have embarked on an ambitious
effort to create a worldwide
map of well-exposed metal ore
deposits.
- Locust! By
tracking rainfall-induced changes
in vegetation in the desert locust's
habitat, scientists can help predict
when conditions are becoming ripe
for the formation of a plague.
Earth
Science Information Partners (ESIP)
brings together government agencies, universities,
non-profit organizations, and businesses in an effort
to make Earth Science information available to a broader
community. Gateways to an impressive set of data centers
Earth Shots--Satellite
Images of Environmental Change
US Global Change Research Program http://www.usgcrp.gov/
EPA's Planet Protectors Club for Kids
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/index.htm
Goddard Space Flight Center Top Story Archive http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/archives.html
Goddard
Space Flight Center Press Release Archive
Stanford lectures audio files on iTunes - free
http://itunes.stanford.edu/
SCIENCE NEWS
For the latest NASA Earth science news, visit the
NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
or Science@NASA (http://science.nasa.gov/).
12/16/2003 -- The
Maine Event, by Diane Curtis.
Excerpt: Almost 1 1/2 years after
laptops began flooding Maine's
middle schools, students, teachers,
principals, and parents across
the Pine Tree State are relaying
success stories for which the portable
computers are credited. Stories
of sullen truants transformed into
outgoing school leaders. Stories
of leveling the playing field.
Stories of environmental projects
or oral histories benefiting and
uniting not just the school community,
but the community at large. Stories
of teachers reinvigorated by a
new way of teaching that encourages
real-world problem-solving and
individual student initiative...
1/19/2004 -- Laptops
On Expedition, by Diane Curtis.
At first, it may look like they're
taking part in a graduation ceremony,
but the students who march across
the stage at Maine's Falmouth Audubon
Society to shake hands with their
principal and teachers aren't
walking away with diplomas. They're
walking away with tangible results
of their learning. In this particular
case, the 85 seventh graders from
Helen King Middle School in Portland
each received a copy of "Fading
Footprints," a CD-ROM they
produced about Maine's endangered
species...
Professional Development
Earth
Systems Science Education in the
21st Century Design Guide for
Undergraduate Earth System Science
Education (College level)
Earth
Systems Science (ESS) 16-Week
On-Line Graduate Course for 5th
- 9th Grade Teachers, by WestEd
Eisenhower Regional Consoritum.
Earth
Exploration Toolbook (EET)
-- provides step-by-step instructions
for using Earth science datasets
and software tools in educational
settings. Each chapter of the EET
walks users through an example-a
case study in which the user accesses
data and uses analysis tools to
explore issues or concepts in Earth
system science. In each chapter,
users produce and analyze maps,
graphs, images, or other data products.
Earth Systems Science On-Line Course
for Earth Systems Science online
courses (16-week) through WestEd
Eisenhower Regional Consortium. features
student-centered, knowledge-building
virtual communities. Teachers participating
in the High School ESS course will
engage in a collaborative, inquiry-based
electronic environment: team with
fellow teachers, analyze the impact
of Earth events on spheres, develop
Earth systems models, research Problem
Based Learning (PBL), and create
ESS and PBL activities to use in
their classrooms. Contact: Libby
Rognier
<lrognie@wested.org>
Tel: 415-615-3214
Earth
Comm -- High school Earth Science
course from It's About Time Publishing
The
GEODE Initiative -- The Geographic
Data in Education (GEODE) Initiative
at Northwestern University is dedicated
to improving public understanding
of our world through education
about the Earth’s physical,
biological, and social systems.
The GEODE Initiative develops and
studies curriculum, software, and
teacher professional development.
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