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Global Climate Change
Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
× Consequences of global climate change already include: increased drought, heat waves, flood intensity, glacial retreat, and sea level rise. Solutions are needed to reduce human impact on our climate system ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory

Paleoclimatology
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado
This course introduces students to the methods of paleoclimatology and provides a survey of major climatic events over the history of the Earth. The course incorporates journal articles and web resources to teach ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

The Earth's Climate System
Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College
This course will be taught once per year. It provides an introduction to the climate system through lectures, labs, discussions and activities. It uses lecture and inquiry based activities to help students gain ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Greenhouse gas emissions, Global change modeling, Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Paleoclimate records, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, El Nino/La Nina
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory

Climatology
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado
This course is designed to help students gain a scientific understanding of the physical aspects of Earth's climate system and the factors that influence climate change. We explore the global balance of energy ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Global energy balance, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Forecasting, Seasonal patterns, Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Hydrologic cycle, El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric circulation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Energy, heat and temperature, Solar and terrestrial radiation
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Our Dynamic Weather
Dave Dempsey, San Francisco State University
"Our Dynamic Weather" explores the nature of weather and how and why it changes. It describes how atmospheric scientists display and interpret weather information and use that information to identify ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

Planetary Climate Change
Dave Dempsey, San Francisco State University
What are weather and climate, how has climate changed in the past, how do we know, what causes climate to change, and how can we predict future climate? Planetary Climate Change explores scientists' current ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

North American Environments
Marguerite Forest, Florida Gulf Coast University
Natural environments of North America (north of Mexico and excluding Florida) and critical environmental issues in the region will be examined in terms of geology/geomorphology, climate/weather, and biogeography ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Global Environmental Obstacles
Walter Borowski, Eastern Kentucky University
The course uses Mackenzie's Our Changing Planet as a template and investigates world population, diminishing water resources, anthropogenic effects on the atmosphere (ozone hole and acid rain), and global ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Air Quality, Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Human Population
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

Global Climate Change
This interdisciplinary courses focuses on how and why Earth's climate has changed thoughout its history and how it is likely to change in the near future. It draws from geology, chemistry, meteorology, ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)

Meteorology
Elizabeth Malcolm, Virginia Wesleyan College
This lecture/lab course explores topics of weather, climate and air pollution and is taken by majors and non-majors. The goal of the laboratory is to develops students' understanding of the atmosphere through ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory