Resources
COSEE-West
Changing Climate and the California Coastal Ocean
WEBSITES
AUD = includes audio, VID = includes video, ANI = animation
Dr. Yi Chao’s Biography
http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Chao/
SATELLITES & MISSIONS
Aquarius (joint project between NASA & the Space Agency of Argentina, CONAE
– Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales) is a satellite mission to
measure global sea surface salinity (SSS), planned launch in 2009
http://aquarius.nasa.gov
Educational content & activities about salinity: “Salinity and the Water Cycle”
http://aquarius.nasa.gov/salinity_patterns_overview.php
and more to come as the project progresses
Studying the Water and Energy Cycles by Satellite
http://crew.iges.org/people/debbie_files/The%20water%20cycle.jpg
WEATHER & CLIMATE
Earthwatch Radio Script: “Record Attempt” AUD
A collection of extreme weather reports could help scientists determine what's
normal and what's not in a climate that's rapidly changing.
http://ewradio.org/program.aspx?ProgramID=4267
Animation of freshwater dumped by Hurricane Isabela ANI
http://aquarius.nasa.gov/images/isabel_rain.mpg
NOAA National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
NOAA Climate Prediction Center
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
KCET/PBS/NOVA Online: Cracking the Ice Age
Greenhouse – Green Planet
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/greenhouse.html
PATTERNS & CYCLES: EL NINO, LA NINA, ENSO, PDO
NOAA’s El Nino theme page: access to distributed information about El Nino
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html
OceanGLOBE powerpoint on El Nino
http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/ppt/elnino/elnino.htm
Science @ NASA: The Ocean’s Influence on the climate variability, the water
cycle, and the carbon cycle
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/oceans/system/index.html
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~mantua/REPORTS/PDO/PDO_egec.htm
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~mantua/REPORTS/PDO/PDO_cs.htm
American Museum of Natural History
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO): “NAO Who?”
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/earth/f/nao.20040910/essays/28_1.php
JPL: Ocean Surface Topography from Space
Latest El Nino/La Nina Jason Data, El Nino 2006
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/
CLIMATE CHANGE
United States Environmental Protection Agency
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
and their site for kids
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: Ocean and Climate Change Institute
“Abrupt Climate Change: Should We Be Worried?”
By Robert B. Gagosian, President & Director WHOI
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/viewArticle.do?id=9986
American Museum of Natural History: Science Bulletin
Melting Glaciers: Clues to Climate Change
Follow a team of glaciologists racing to core the world's largest tropical ice cap--before global
warming melts it away.
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/earth/f/glaciers.20050331/
National Geographic
Climate Change: Pictures of a Warming World
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/photogalleries/global_wa
rming/
NOVA: World in the Balance
The threats facing human populations, national economies, and global climate
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
GLOBAL WARMING
NOVA and Frontline: What’s up with the weather?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/
National Geographic News
Global Warming Fast Facts (2004)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_wa
rming.html
Is Global Warming Making Hurricanes Worse? (2005)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0804_050804_hurricane
warming.html
You Can Fight Global Warming, Authors Urge (2003)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0422_030422_conservati
ontips.html
OCEANS – CURRENTS, SALINITY, ETC.
United Nations Environment Programme
Great Ocean Conveyor Belt map
http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/32.htm
SCCOOS – Southern CA Coastal Observing System
http://www.sccoos.org/cc-EspTeachers.html
OceanGLOBE powerpoint on Ocean Circulation
http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/ppt/oceancircNotes/OceanCirculation.h
tm
OceanGLOBE powerpoint on Salinity
http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/ppt/salinity/salinity.htm
LESSON PLANS, CURRICULA, TEACHER’S GUIDES
JOI – Joint Oceanographic Institutions (focus on earth sciences education)
http://www.joilearning.org/classroom/default.html
Jason-1 “Voyage on the High Seas” Board Game
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/jason-1-game.html
An Inconvenient Truth Educator’s Resource
http://www.participate.net/educators/
OceanGLOBE Powerpoints
http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/slides.htm
OceanGLOBE Investigations for grades 4-8 and 9-12
http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/investigations.htm
El Niño skit designed for primary grades
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/el-nino-skit.html
SEA’s K-12 lesson plans (Sea Education Association)
http://www.sea.edu/academics/k12.asp
Density Dynamics
http://www.sea.edu/academics/k12.asp?plan=densitydynamics
American Museum of Natural History
Climate and Climate Change Lesson Plans
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl.php?set=b&topic_id=4&subtop
ic_id=68
Dr. C’s Remarkable Ocean World – HAS BEEN COMPLETELY RE-DONE AND
IS NOW CALLED “EXPLORE OCEAN WORLD”
http://www.oceansonline.com/
BOOKS
Weather Watching, The Nature Companions
By William J. Burroughs, Bob Crowder, Ted Robertson, Eleanor Vallier-Talbot,
Consulting Editor: Richard Whitaker, Fog City Press, 2003
ISBN: 1 740893 79 4
Contains several sections on climate change in Chapter 5: Changing Weather,
including sections called "Measuring Climate Change", "Reasons for Climate
Change", "The Greenhouse Effect", "Global Warming", and "The Evidence
Mounts". Chapter 10 is about collecting Satellite and Space Imagery with
photos taken from space of cyclones, fronts, thunderstorms, snow, and ice.