The Colorado River Compact part of Water Science and Society:Student Materials
The Colorado River flows almost 1500 km from its headwaters in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, through Nevada, Arizona, and California, before crossing the border to Mexico and flowing to the Gulf of ...

Sea Level Change During the Last 5 Million Years part of Coastal Processes, Hazards and Society:Student Materials
Exploring the Pliocene-Pleistocene Interval In order to answer this question, let's explore sea level curves for the past five million years (our best and most complete interval of well-calibrated geologic ...

Humans and Sea Level Change Over the Last 11,000 Years part of Coastal Processes, Hazards and Society:Student Materials
What about the most recent period of sea level change (i.e., during the Holocene) since humans have been involved? Once again, given the Hansen data (Figure 4.24), the time period for most significant human impact ...

Droughts part of Water Science and Society:Student Materials
How do you know when you're in a drought? Identifying an area as 'in drought' is different from identifying it as 'arid'. While the two may seem related, the subtle difference is ...

The Rio Grande part of Water Science and Society:Student Materials
The Rio Grande River flows along the U.S. (Texas)-Mexico border for nearly 1,248 miles (2,008 km) including meanders. Although snowmelt from the San Juan Mountains of Colorado (Fig. 7) is a major source of water ...

Climate Science for Sustainability in the Future Greenhouse/Hothouse part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Programs that Bring Together Geoscience and Sustainability:Essays
David Feary, School of Sustainability and School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus My upcoming course—Climate Science for Sustainability—is a 200-level course offered ...

Unit 3: Geologic Record of Past Climate part of Carbon, Climate, and Energy Resources
Students will be introduced to a few of the different methods used in paleoclimatology, including isotopic ratios as paleotemperature proxies. They will investigate the greenhouse gas connections of two ancient ...

Unit 3: Mining and Mining Impacts part of Humans Dependence on Earths Mineral Resources
In this unit, students are introduced to basic mining methods and processes. This unit also addresses some of the impacts of mining (particularly from mining for metals) on the environment and human health, and ...

Unit 3: Simple Climate Models part of Modeling Earth Systems
Students will explore Earth's radiation budget using several versions of a simple climate model often referred to as a "layer model." Earth receives energy from the sun, some of which is reflected ...

Unit 1: Hydrologic Cycle part of Interactions between Water, Earth’s Surface, and Human Activity
In this unit, students investigate water from a global perspective. The focus of students learning is on the identification of storehouses where Earth's water is stored, how matter (water) cycles through the ...