Franks, S., McDonnell, J., Peach, C., Simms, E., & Thorrold, A. (2006).
This guide provides basic information for scientists who wish to engage in education and public outreach (EPO) activities. Engaging in EPO can be an excellent way to address funding agencies’ requirements that proponents articulate the broader societal value of their research.
Photographer James Balog has set up time-lapse cameras to observe glaciers melting in locations around the world, including the rapid melt and thinning of Greenland ice sheets. This site has links to footage of Mendenhall and Columbia Glaciers, the latter of which has retreated 1.9 miles in two years, and background information about glaciers and climate change. Balog also did an excellent TED talk, archived here. http://www.extremeicesurvey.org.
Climate Change: Connections and Solutions curriculum guides for Grades 6-8 and 9-12. Currently available for download free as a donation from Hewlett-Packard. The website has lesson plans and curriculum guides related to other sustainability topics.
Available in book form or as a series of video lectures based on a core class for non-science majors by climate scientist David Archer at the University of Chicago. He explains the "nuts and bolts" of climate change, applying physical science concepts to explain how the climate system works and how various components are interacting in climate change. David Archer is the also the author of a book for a popular audience called The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate, published by Princeton University Press.
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