Mark McCaffrey
Project Leader
Climate Change Collection Homepage part of Climate Change Collection
This collection includes background materials, high-quality web portals, classroom activities, and reseach on misconceptions about weather and climate.
Website Content Contributions
Activities (2)
Whither Arctic Sea Ice? part of Earth Exploration Toolbook:SeaIce
DATA: Sea Ice Images TOOLS: ImageJ, Spreadsheet application SUMMARY: Animate 30 years of sea ice images and measure the ice extent each year to produce a graph. Compare the ice extents to air temperatures.
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Comparing Carbon Calculators part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Carbon calculators, no matter how well intended as tools to help measure energy footprints, tend to be black boxes and can produce wildly different results, depending on the calculations used to weigh various ...
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Communities
Workshop Participant
May 2007 Using Data in the Classroom Workshop 2005
April 2005 Visualization Workshop 2004
February 2004