Cindy Shellito
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Northern Colorado
Cindy Shellito is a professor at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO. Her primary research interests are in modeling deep-time paleoclimate and geoscience education. She teaches courses focusing on themes ranging from paleoclimatology and global climate dynamics to mesoscale meteorology.
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Course Modules (3)
Unit 1 Forecasting Climate Variability and Change: A Matter of Survival part of Climate of Change
An Introduction to Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Climate Impacts This unit is designed to engage students in the topics of climate variability and climate change by introducing them to impacts of changes ...
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Climate of Change part of Climate of Change
In this two to three week module, students explore short-term climate variability resulting from atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions. The module promotes awareness of past and contemporary cultures and regions ...
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Unit 2 Deciphering Short-Term Climate Variability part of Climate of Change
Making Sense of Ocean and Atmospheric Data Depicting Climate Variability In this lesson, students will be provided with data depicting the cyclic changes in tropical Pacific climate associated with the El ...
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Activities (6)
Is Warming Natural or Anthropogenic? part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:University of Northern Colorado:Activities
Students use climate model output to compare past, present and future climate and consider the impacts of human activity on climate.
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Courses (2)
Paleoclimatology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Course
This course introduces students to the methods of paleoclimatology and provides a survey of major climatic events over the history of the Earth. The course incorporates journal articles and web resources to teach ...
Climatology part of Complex Systems:Courses
This course is designed to help students gain a scientific understanding of the physical aspects of Earth's climate system and the factors that influence climate change. We explore the global balance of energy ...
Essays (2)
Developing a hands-on approach to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting weather observations and climate data part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Essays
Developing a hands-on approach to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting weather observations and climate data Cindy Shellito, Earth Sciences, University of Northern Colorado Meteorologists and climatologists ...
Introducing students to the complexities of the atmosphere and climate system part of Complex Systems:Workshop 2010:Participant Essays
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado As a meteorologist and paleoclimate modeler, nearly every course I have taught in the past five years has required students to delve into the complexities of the ...
Conference Presentations (5)
Report on Unlearning Racism in Geoscience from the NAGT Traveling Workshop Program Pod part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday:Poster Session III
In Spring 2021, twelve facilitators from the NAGT Traveling Workshop Program (TWP; https://nagt.org/nagt/profdev/twp) organized a discussion pod as part of the Unlearning Racism in Geoscience program (URGE; ...
Other Contributions (7)
Exploring the Link Between Hurricanes and Climate Using GCM Results part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activity Supplement Collection
Cindy Shellito, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Northern Colorado.This page is a supplement to the original activity description found hereShort description of the activity:This activity requires ...
Communities
July 2020 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2017
July 2017 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2016
July 2016 CE Embedded Assessment
InTeGrate Materials Developers
Teach the Earth
NAGT Rocky Mountain Section
NAGT All
Workshop Leader (5 workshops)
June 2014Early Career Workshop 2013
July 2013Early Career Workshop 2011
June 2011
Workshop Participant (16 workshops)
July 2020 Neutralizing the Politicization of Climate Science and Energy Policy
July 2017 Heads & Chairs Workshop: Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
July 2017