Anne Gold

CIRES Education and Outreach Group

University of Colorado at Boulder

Anne Gold is the Director the Education & Outreach Program at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) where she leads a team of 17 with extensive expertise in curriculum development, public outreach, community engagement, early career scientist support, and evaluation. With over a decade of experience in envisioning, developing and implementing education and outreach opportunities for scientists, educators, students and the public, Gold is well established in the education and outreach community. She lead the CLEANnet.org climate education project and a summer research project for community college students in Colorado and on curriculum development projects around environmental science topics many of which have a place-based focus. She previously developed the CLEAN peer-review process for educational resources. She conducts program evaluation and educational research around climate topics. Her projects translate research into educational resources.

Workshop Participant, Webinar Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (3), Conference Presentations (10), Other Contributions (6)

Activities (3)

Arctic Climate Curriculum, Activity 3: Exploring Arctic Climate Data part of Climate Change:Activities
Students dig into authentic Arctic climate data to unravel some causes and effects related to the seasonal melting of the snowpack. In particular, students learn about albedo and its relationship to snowmelt. This ...

Arctic Climate Curriculum, Activity 1: Exploring the Arctic part of Climate Change:Activities
This activity introduces students to the Arctic, including different definitions of the Arctic and exploration of the Arctic environment and Arctic people. Students set out on a virtual exploration of the geography ...

Bringing Polar Landscapes into the College Classroom Using 360-degree Interactive Environments part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday Teaching Demo Session A
In this teaching demonstration, participants will have the chance to engage with 360-degree interactive environments (360 IE) that explore the polar environments of Greenland. We will discuss how the 360 IEs were ...

Conference Presentations (10)

Greenland in your classroom - New college-level curriculum combines polar field data, 360-degree immersive field experiences and geospatial technologies part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Earth's polar environments have undergone rapid change during the 21st century and scientists have generated important new data and made groundbreaking insights. Shrinking glaciers, melting sea ice, thawing ...

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The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday
It is important that we prepare tomorrow's scientists, decision makers, and communities to address the societal impacts of a changing climate. In order to respond to, manage, and adapt to those changes, ...

Using Galvanic Skin Sensors to Measure Engagement and Learning Outcomes During Teacher Workshops and Undergraduate Classes about Climate Science part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday
Climate science is a complex topic that requires system-level thinking and the application of general science concepts. Identifying techniques to improve climate literacy and learning gains is an emerging research ...

Building Pathways to STEM Careers in Geoscience and Environmental Science through the Colorado Community Colleges part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Oral Sessions:Thursday A
Colorado's adult population ranks second in the nation for college degrees and ninth for income levels, yet Colorado's educational achievement gap for low-income, first generation, and minority students ...

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday
It is important that we prepare tomorrow's scientists, decision makers and citizens to address the societal impacts of a changing climate. In order to respond, manage, and adapt to those change citizens of all ...

Evaluating the Climate.gov Web Portal—A Key Resource for Climate Information part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Government web portals are important trusted sources for science educators to retrieve content and data for instruction. Climate.gov is one such web portal, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Using a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Earth Science Education: Who Did We Teach and What Did We Learn? part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Over the last decade, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have rapidly gained traction as a way to provide virtually anyone with an internet connection free access to a broad variety of high-quality college-level ...

EarthLabs: A Resource for Earth System Education part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Reducing the effects of human activity on the environment, including climate, and coping with natural events such as hurricanes, landslides, and droughts all call for greater public understanding of how the Earth ...

Differences in Spatial Reasoning Skills in Undergraduate Geology Students and the Effect of Weekly Spatial Skill Trainings part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Spatial reasoning is a key skill for student success in STEM disciplines in general and for students in geosciences in particular. However, spatial reasoning is neither explicitly trained, nor evenly distributed, ...

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Unlike many problems of the past climate change is impacting and will impact a broad cross section of society. In order to respond, manage, and adapt to those change citizens of all ages need accurate, up to date ...

Other Contributions (6)

Engaging Students in Earth's Systems Thinking with Model-Based Inquiry part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Afternoon Workshops
Arctic Feedbacks - Not all warming is equal, is an Earth's systems curriculum inspired by the 2019-2020 MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition, one of the ...

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Undergraduate Research in Geoscience at University of Colorado at Boulder part of SAGE 2YC:Engage 2YC Students in Research:Profiles
Information for this profile was provided by Anne Gold, CIRES Education and Outreach Group. Departmental/Institutional Context The University of Colorado in Boulder is an R1 research university, granting ...

Climate Literacy and Awareness Network (CLEAN) part of EarthConnections:Program Descriptions
CLEAN provides a peer-reviewed online collection of educational resources around climate and energy topics. CLEAN further offers background information and support on teaching about climate and energy topics and hosts a vibrant community with over 650 members that are all focused on climate literacy and include scientists, educators, policy makers, curriculum developers etc.

Research on Students' Conceptual Understanding of Environmental, Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Climate Science Content part of NAGT:Our Work:Geoscience Education Research:Community Framework for GER:Conceptual Understanding - Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate
Download a pdf of this chapterCinzia Cervato, Iowa State University; Donna Charlevoix, UNAVCO; Anne Gold, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Hari Kandel, Lake Superior State University Introduction At the ...

Geoscience Education Research I part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Oral Sessions
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Geoscience Education Research part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Poster Sessions
Related Monday Oral Session with discussion @ 4:00pm Related Tuesday Oral Session with discussion @ 4:00pm

Communities

Member of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Rocky Mountain Section, Geoscience Education Research Division

Earth Educators Rendezvous 2017
July 2017 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 Compass Community Discovery Advisors
Advocacy Interest Group
Evaluate UR Pilot 1 Applicants
Integrate/GETSI 2023 Survey
NAGT All
NAGT Rocky Mountain Section
Teach the Earth
Teaching in the Field Interest Group
Education Icon
Geo2YC Community
ICON Education Interest List
ICON Writing Leads
Teaching with Augmented and Virtual Reality Interest

Workshop Participant (4 workshops)

Ed Research Methods Workshop
July 2015 Geo Ed Research -Rendezvous15
July 2015 Cutting Edge 2013 Assessment Journal Club

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Webinar Participant (6 webinars)

Exploring GeoMagnetism through Citizen Science
April 2023 PresenterDeveloping a Sense of Place During Distance Learning
November 2020 Webinar: NGSS Climate Education with the CLEAN Collection
April 2017 Presenter

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