Summer+Institute


 * Summer Institute **


 * [[file:June 19-21 AGENDA.pdf|NC Climate Fellows Agenda]]**
 * [[file:Technology Guide.docx|Technology Guide]]**

=**Tuesday** =

**Chip Konrad, PhD** **//Recent Climate Variability and Extremes: Is Global warming Responsible?//** **Worksheet:** Climate Perspectives Website Tutorial Video for Climate Perspectives Website **Answer Key:**
 * Presentation:** [[file:Konrad Climate Change_2012.pptx|Climate Variability and Extremes: Is Global Warming Responsible?]]

The following free apps are available for iPad and can be explored during the workshop.
 * iPad Exploration: Climate Change Resources**
 * 1) [|NASA’s Visualization Explorer]
 * 2) [|Skeptical Science]
 * 3) [|Climate Mobile]
 * 4) [|NOAA's Arctic Watch] //Access to Arctic data is free//
 * 5) [|Our Choice]
 * 6) [|Painting with Time: Climate Change]

Exploring Earth's Energy Budget
 * Linda Schmalbeck**

**DeeDee Whitaker** //**Introduction to Remote Sensing**// **Presentation:**

[|NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial] Table of recorded Thermal Measurements on various surfaces at Botanical Gardens [|Relationship between temperature, albedo and emissivity(the amount of energy absorbed by a surface)] [|NCOne Map data and imagery] [|National Map-data and imagery]
 * Other Remote Sensing Resources: **

**Uma Shankar** //**Aerosol Impact on Climate **// Dimming The Sun <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/view/search?q==smoke%20OR%20dust%20OR%20haze%20LIMIT:NVA2%7E25%7E25,NVA2%7E57%7E57NASA Image Gallery: Smoke, Dust & Haze

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Bono Sen, PhD** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Climate Change- A Human Health Perspective** // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Environmental Health Perspectives Science Education Program [|A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change, 2010 Report]

Visualizing Sea Level Rise on the North Carolina Coast Google's Sea Level Rise Explorer NASA's Changing Sea Level interactive! The Island President movie that Dana mentioned is available for $15 here on itunes.
 * Sea Level Rise Resources**

High School Assembly Information
 * Alliance for Climate Education**

=<span style="color: #146bb1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Wednesday** =

Carbon in Love: Krulwich NPR video

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**NetLogo** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NetLogo's Climate Change Model: Heat Energy

//**Field Trip To FACE Site**// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage Facility with free air CO2 enrichment (FACE) plots <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 minute video about the FACE Site

Judy Walker, North Carolina NASA Educator Resource Center Video: Take AIM at Climate Change NASA's Global Climate Change blog... with the tree music!
 * Exploration of NASA Resources**


 * NASA's CHANGE Viewer**


 * [[image:grace.jpg align="left" link="http://www.amnh.org/education/teachers/offering.php?id=521"]][|GRACE: Tracking Water from Space]**
 * Worksheet: Exploring GRACE Data Visualizations.docx**


 * Linda Schmalbeck**


 * Project BudBurst**

=<span style="color: #146bb1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Thursday** =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Lab Activities: Climate Change and the Cryosphere**

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Links to accompany sea ice/land ice activity** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=34.8679,-78.9917&z=10&m=4 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateReel/video/Melting_Ice_Rising_Seas_640x360.cfm

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> this lab references black carbon, but provides no link for students to use to research ... so here's a link
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average Total-Sky Albedo scale **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Climate Change and the Cryosphere Resources** UNEP: The Crysophere [|National Snow and Ice Data Center] [|Lesson/Activity - Iceberg Hunting]

Jose Rial Presentation - Coming Soon! Mike Willis Presentation-Coming Soon! @http://www.polenet.org/ Extreme Ice Survey Website

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Joel Kingsolver, PhD** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**John Bruno, PhD** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**The Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems** // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|John Bruno's Website] //

[|NASA Coral Reef Watch Google Earth Products] [|NOAA Coral Reef Watch Satellite Monitoring] [|A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems] [|The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism] [|Jane Lubchenko (NOAA Administrator) demo on Ocean Acidification] Lesson: [|Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs] [|Polar Bear International - Tundra Connections] in month of November

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Other Hydrosphere Resources** [|Ocean Portal], National Museum of Natural History [|Lesson Plan Library], NOAA Ocean Service Education