Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data

Final Program

Monday, June 2

5:30 - 6:00 Opening reception

6:00 - 7:15 Dinner

7:15 - 7:30 Welcoming remarks

7:30 - 8:30 Opening Plenary: Ice Cores, Climate Change and Polar See-saws (PowerPoint 2.8MB Jun3 08) by Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University

Related resources by Richard Alley:

Global Warming and Ice Sheets (Acrobat (PDF) 566kB Jun18 08), a summary written for policymakers
The Younger Dryas Cold Interval as Viewed from Central Greenland (abstract only)
Abrupt Climate Changes: Oceans, Ice, and Us (full text)
Understanding and Responding to Climate Change, the 2008 booklet by the National Academies of Science

8:30 - 9:30 Discussion

Tuesday, June 3

8:00 - 8:45 Goals for Workshop: Ours and Yours

8:45 - 10:00 Ice Sheets and Ice Cores (Acrobat (PDF) 24.7MB Jun3 08) by Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University

10:15 - 11:15 How is the Atmospheric CO₂ Record Stored in Polar Ice Sheets? (PowerPoint 1.9MB Jun13 08) by Todd Sowers, Pennsylvania State University

Watch the 12 minute video: Climate Change: A Report from Antarctica WAIS Divide Ice Core

11:15 - 1:30 Share Fair/Poster Session and Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Accessing Ice Core data in the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program (PowerPoint 3.8MB Jun13 08) by Carrie Morrill, NOAA - Boulder

3:00 - 3:45 What Makes a Good Activity? Lessons from Research on Learning and Classroom Experience (PowerPoint 490kB Jun17 08) by Cathy Manduca, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College