Teaching Materials
This page is a list of activities associated with the Deep Time Climate and Carbon Cycle Project.
Subject: Geoscience
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Investigating Paleoclimate: Understanding Global Climate Change by Investigating the End Triassic Mass Extinction?
Danielle Oberg
As climate continues to change due to anthropogenic releases of greenhouse gases, it is important to understand how future greenhouse gas emissions will impact ecosystems and global climate. Quantification of the ...
Ancient CO2 calculations from stable isotopes of fossil soils
Marina Suarez, University of Kansas
This problem set uses stable isotope data to understand paleoclimate. The data can be used to calculate ancient CO2 concentration from fossil soils (paleosols).
Lab for reconstructing atmospheric CO2 from leaf stomata
Dana Royer, Wesleyan University
Students measure stomatal frequencies in fossil and present-day leaves in order to quantitatively estimate atmospheric CO2 concentration.
Climate and CO2
Dan Breecker, The University of Texas at Austin
This lab introduces students to the concept of climate sensitivity. Students use ice core data and older paleoatmospheric CO2 and temperature data (available on paleo-co2.org) to calculate climate sensitivities ...
Lab for modeling the long-term carbon cycle
Dana Royer, Wesleyan University
In this two-week sequence, students first create models of simple dynamic systems that include feedbacks. Students then apply this modeling framework to the long-term carbon cycle.