Teacher Workshops

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Wednesday July 8

1:30: Welcome, Workshop Overview & Introductions (Margaret Mooney, ESIP Education Chair)
1:50: Climate Literacy Essential Principles (Tamara Ledley, TERC)
2:10: Activities to incorporate NOAA Weather & Climate Data into the Classroom (LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA Climate Program Office)
3:10: Break
3:30 Ocean Temperature, Salinity and Density (Gregg Foti, NASA PO. DAAC, Annette Decharon, Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence)
4:30: Seaicebox: Exploring Sea Ice in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions (Annette Schloss, UNH)

Thursday July 9

Workshops will take place in the Bren GIS and Main Computing Labs. Sessions will run concurrently.

  • Using the 2008 TerraViva! SEDAC Viewer in the Classroom (Robert R. Downs, CIESIN, Columbia University)
  • KML and Google Earth (Raj Singh, Open Geospatial Consortium)
  • Earth Exploration Toolbook (Tamara Ledley. TERC)
  • Sampling the Sea (Bruce Caron and Constance Penley)
  • World Ocean Atlas (WOA) Data Viewer (Martin Landsfeld (NASA DIAL ACCESS Project))
  • Applets and RCOs (Tommy Jasmin and Margaret Mooney, CIMSS, UW-Madison)