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Keywords: Climate Change
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- Abstract: This visualization from NASA shows global rainfall patterns over a 22-year span. It incorporates data from a combination of remote-sensing and ground-based sources.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
Teachers' Domain
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- Abstract: Interactive animation showing the changes occurring to an ice-shelf in relation to the temperature of the surrounding water.
The animation has been created on the basis of the most recent models created by the modelling team of the antarctic research called ANDRILL.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Secondary
- Collection:
ANDRILL
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- Abstract: A comprehensive treatment of the advanced methods of applied mathematics. Designed to strengthen the mathematical abilities of graduate students and train them to think on their own. Review of elementary methods in complex analysis, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. Expansions around regular and irregular singular points; asymptotic evaluation of integrals, regular perturbations; WKB method; multiple scale method; boundary-layer techniques.
- Subject:
Mathematics and Statistics
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
- Collection:
MIT OpenCourseWare
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- Abstract: The Horn of Africa has been experiencing exceptional droughts over the last decade. Using data collected from the NOAA POES satellite, changes in the severity of the drought conditions in the Horn and around the world are shown.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
- Collection:
NOAA
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- Abstract: Explores the changing roles, ethical conflicts, and public perceptions of science and scientists in American society from World War II to the present. Studies specific historical episodes focusing on debates between scientists and the contextual factors influencing their opinions and decisions. Topics include the atomic bomb project, environmental controversies, the Challenger disaster, biomedical research, genetic engineering, (mis)use of human subjects, scientific misconduct and whistleblowing.
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- Abstract: The search for sustainable energy will dominate the twenty-first century. This unit provides an introductory overview of the present energy systems and takes a brief look at where the world may find energy in the future - cleaner use of fossil fuels or renewable energy sources?
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- Abstract: In this video segment adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Inuit observers describe how their traditional understanding of weather patterns is being challenged by unpredictable weather behaviors.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
Teachers' Domain
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- Abstract: What would happen if a portion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt? This video segment adapted from NOVA uses animations to show the effect of a 6-meter sea-level rise on coastal cities across the world.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
Teachers' Domain
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- Abstract: One of the most rewarding and challenging aspects of teaching an advanced placement environmental science course is finding enriching field and lab activities for your students. These labs have been developed by an experienced team of environmental science educators in partnership with the Environmental Literacy Council. Each lab has been the subject of an extensive peer review by a number of experienced environmental science educators. The content of this initial collection is varied, and APES teachers and students in different areas around the country should be able to complete each of the labs. These initial labs are not typical cookbook variety. They each contain an inquiry-based component. Over time, additional labs and tools for new and experienced teachers will be added to the collection.
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- Abstract: This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, describes how global climate change is affecting Barrow, Alaska.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
Teachers' Domain
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- Abstract: In this interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain, learn how Arctic sea ice has changed over the past 25 years in terms of maximum winter extent, concentration, and the timing of breakup each spring.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
Teachers' Domain
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- Abstract: This site offers a searchable collection of answers to questions about global warming, ozone depletion, greenhouse gases, and other issues related to climate change. Students can also submit questions of their own and explore related links.
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- Abstract: At the end of 2003, there were 2600 known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and of these 691 are brighter than absolute magnitude, which is taken to correspond to a diameter of 1 kilometer or more. Of these, 131 are classed as PHAs (potentially hazardous asteroids) larger than 1 km. This site describes the potentially devastating effects of a collision between Earth and a large meteor or asteroid. It also describes the Spaceguard Survey, which is an initiative to locate and catalog as many potentially hazardous NEAs as possible. Other parts of the site include: a news archive, bibliography, catalog of near earth objects, image gallery, and links to related sites.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Secondary
- Collection:
NASA
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- Abstract: This site includes simulations of more than 40 phenomena: sea ice and CO2, climate change (230-year period), clouds and precipitation, coral reef evolution (starting 21,000 years ago), universal fire shape, fire twirl and burst behavior, tornadoes, thunderstorms, typhoons, El Niño events, greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols, polar vortex breakdown, CO2 and temperature, CFCs in the ocean, cloud evolution (7-day period), daily weather in the U.S., and more.
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- Abstract: In this lesson students will compare and make distinctions among 5 alternative fuels. They will understand the impact of different types of fuel on: a. the environment b. lifestyle c. the economy/personal finances of car choices. They will also use critical thinking skills to support multi-step decision-making for buying a car.
- Subject:
Science and Technology, Business
- Grade Level:
Secondary
- Collection:
PBS
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- Abstract: What the Energy Biosciences Institute means for UC Berkeley
On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.
In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing series of webcasts about campus issues, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau delves into the details of the university's winning proposal and emerging plans for a new Energy Biosciences Institute.
Part one: The chancellor is joined by two people who played a significant role in crafting the proposal: Vice Chancellor for Research Beth Burnside and Dan Kammen, a professor in the campus's Energy Resources Group (ERG). They discuss their goals for the institute's research endeavors, its potential impact on graduate and undergraduate education, and the proposal's intellectual property provisions.
Part two: Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, joins Birgeneau to review the scientific challenges the new institute will confront, the role and importance of public-private partnerships in addressing the energy crisis and climate change, and the roots of Chu's passionate commitment to developing renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy.
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- Abstract: Science Bulletins include interactive data visualizations that offer a satellite's-eye view of changes in the biosphere. Published in June 2004, this Bio Viz takes a look at the increasing influence human activity is having on fires.
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- Abstract: Our innovative Science Bulletins include interactive data visualizations that offer a satellite's-eye view of changes in the biosphere. Published in August 2005, this Bio Viz takes a look at how human activity is changing fire regimens.
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- Abstract: Science Bulletins include interactive data visualizations that offer a satellite's-eye view of changes in the biosphere. Published in July 2004, this Bio Viz takes a look at efforts to protect old-growth forests.
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- Abstract: This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they take a look at the benefits of biodiversity on our planet.
