Cryosphere Visualizations part of Geomorphology:Visualizations
Compiled by John McDaris at SERC. These visualizations deal with the Cryosphere as a whole. Browse the complete set of Visualization Collections. A Tour of the Cryosphere: Earth's Frozen Assets (more info) ...

Popular Books for Introductory Courses part of Introductory Courses
This list of books was compiled by faculty at the 2008 workshop. Physical Geology Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson Great visualizations of time and size scales. Also good descriptions of geologic ...

Ice Core Exercise part of Climate Change:Activities
William Locke, Montana State University-Bozeman
This assignment (for upper-division/graduate students) provides exposure to ice core data, problem-solving to register data sets, technical challenges in data manipulation and statistics, and an opportunity to ...

Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data part of Climate Change:Workshop 08
Workshop in which participants shared information about the state of the art in climate change research, planned the future teaching of climate change in undergraduate courses across the curriculum, and developed instructional methods, activities, and materials relating to climate change. The 2008 workshop focused on data taken from polar ice cores.

How do polar and tropical ice cores correlate? part of Climate Change:Ideas for Teaching about Ice Cores
This activity was developed during the Teaching Climate Change Using Ice Core Data workshop, held in June 2008.Contributed by John Wehwiller, Tara Curtin, Thom Davis Topic: Timing of Climatic Shifts Course Type: ...

Correlating geologic time with the archaeological record using ice core climate data part of Climate Change:Ideas for Teaching about Ice Cores
This activity was developed during the Teaching Climate Change Using Ice Core Data workshop, held in June 2008.Contributors: Christopher Hill, Sherri Baker-Littman, Kevin Nolan, Ester Sztein Course level: ...

Antarctica and Neogene Global Climate Change part of Climate Change:Activities
Kristen St. John, James Madison University
This exercise set introduces students to Antarctica paleoclimatology in the Neogene. Students investigate geographic, glacial, and geologic data from Antarctica and apply geologic reasoning to propose the best ...

Soil description & analysis part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Karen Koy, Missouri Western State University
The students pull soil cores in a transect across a hill. They describe the horizons and create a fence diagram, then determine the maturity of the soil & relate it to the climate & geologic history of the ...

Bring it home: Evidence of abrupt climate change part of Climate Change:Ideas for Teaching about Ice Cores
This activity was developed during the Teaching Climate Change Using Ice Core Data workshop, held in June 2008.Contributors: Laurel Godell, Jeff Niemitz, Dallas Rhodes, Cathy Whitlock, Kathy Ellis   Topic: ...

Interpreting recent carbon dioxide data part of Climate Change:Activities
Elizabeth Gordon, Fitchburg State University
This activity engages students in viewing and downloading web-accessed data sets to examine latitudinal trends in CO2 over (recent) time and to interpret a time series of CO2 data from a selected location.