Dave Dempsey

The Greenhouse Effect: Why is the Earth's Surface So Much Warmer than the Earth as Seen from Space? part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
This is a teaching activity page from the CLEAN collection that guides students in analyzing global energy budgets to understand the greenhouse effect and global warming, emphasizing how greenhouse gases unbalance Earth's energy system and increase surface temperatures through evidence-based, peer-reviewed instructional design.

Our Dynamic Weather part of Introductory Courses:Virtual Workshop 2014:Course Descriptions
"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 ...

Planetary Climate Change part of Process of Science:Courses
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 ...

An Attempt at Assessment and Evaluation Using Portfolios part of Building Strong Departments:Workshops:Assessing Geoscience Programs:Participant Essays
This participant essay details a geoscience department's experience implementing portfolio-based assessment to evaluate student learning outcomes, outlining challenges in execution, evaluation difficulties, and proposed improvements for a more sustainable, faculty- and student-engaged assessment strategy within academic program evaluation.

A Concept Mapping Assessment of Climate Change Concepts part of Student Learning: Observing and Assessing:Activities
After a brief tutorial on hierarchical concept maps, we ask students in a course on planetary climate change to construct a hierarchical concept map about climate, prompted by several leading questions about climate, climate science, and climate change around which we (roughly) organize the course. We conduct this exercise at the beginning and end of the semester, score the concept maps (two scorers with results reconciled and averaged), and evaluate changes in the scores statistically.

Dave Dempsey part of Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Workshop 08:Participant Profiles
Profile page for Dave Dempsey, an atmospheric dynamicist and educator at San Francisco State University, detailing his background, teaching philosophy, and contributions to geoscience education, with a focus on climate change, hurricanes, and inquiry-based learning in the context of the NAGT On the Cutting Edge professional development workshop.