http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#discussion http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13265 maisa rojas 1288020540 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13265 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13270 Look into models that can forecast drought index.

Ask students to compare different models or another idea might be to use different datasets - like cave or dendrochronology. Isotopes and speleothem.

]]> Suzanne Pierce 1288026600 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13270 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13286
Also, I want to add a final component that asks students to gather present data for the site and use climate outputs to evaluate what the conditions at Mr. East's well would be like today and in the coming years.]]> Suzanne Pierce 1288192020 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13286 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13303 If you want to incorporate model analysis into this assignment, I would do this after students have completed what you have already outlined here (as you've noted above!) - You could have them look at NCAR CCSM output for high CO2 experiments - particularly the temp and precip outputs.
For a MUCH more involved project, you could have them run one of the online models (the UNEP Java climate model, for example - although, this one takes some tinkering to figure out): http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/users/matthews/jcm/]]> Cindy Shellito 1288201380 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13303 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13325 Laura Triplett 1288203360 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13325 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13327 Morrissey, 2010, Groundwater reorganization in the Floridan aquifer following Holocene sea-level rise, Nature Geosci 3(10) 683-687.

I like the community component by looking at a real world case. This could be modified to work on a current problem and evolve in a community service project. Community service is a big at LSU and we are asked to include community service in our courses to grow the value of University for the state (and taxpayers). I may borrow your idea to do a similar project at LSU.]]> Kristine DeLong 1288203540 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13327 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13332
You could expand the use of the palmer drought index - as it sits students are only looking at 2 years - why not look at a bigger range of dates?

You might also add some other lines of data, such as precip records.

I think that finding some precip projections from climate models would be an excellent link.]]> Karin Kirk 1288204200 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13332 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/activities/49736.html#post13333 1a...transmissivity typo

...greenleaf project sounds cool, but I can't quite find the drought severity stuff. do you show folks this or plan on more details?
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