NASA Global Climate Change Education GCCE Project

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NASA Global Climate Change Education (GCCE)
Project

• Lin Chambers
• December 13, 2009

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GCCE Project Goals

• The goals of the GCCE project are to use NASAs
  unique contributions to climate and Earth system
  science to
• Goal 1 improve the teaching and learning about
  global climate change in elementary and secondary
  schools, on college campuses, and through
  lifelong learning
• Goal 2 increase the number of people,
  particularly high school and undergraduate
  students, using NASA Earth observation data/NASA
  Earth system models to investigate and analyze
  global climate change issues
• Goal 3 increase the number of undergraduate
  students prepared for employment and/or to enter
  graduate school in technical fields relevant to
  global climate change.

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Introductions

• Project Team (NASA)
• Dr. Lin Chambers Project Scientist (LaRC)
• Dr. Margaret Pippin Deputy Project Scientist
  (LaRC)
• Sharon Welch Project Manager (LaRC)
• Kate Spruill Deputy Project Manager (LaRC)
• Dr. Leslie McCarthy Technical Officer (GISS)

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Introductions

• Project Integration Support
• (Virginia Space Grant Consortium)
• Mary Sandy VSGC Director
• Barbara Mann Project Manager
• Stephanie Atienza Project Assistant
• Andi Geyer Education Specialist
• Wendy Rose Stout Social Networking Specialist

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GCCE On the Web

• GCCE Website http//gcce.larc.nasa.gov
• Ning site http//nasagcce.ning.com
• Facebook NASA Global Climate Change Education

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Implementation Approach

• Fund activities through a competitive process
• Build an active network of educators, students,
  and researchers who are engaged with one another
  and the broader community of global climate
  change and Earth system science education and
  research

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Awards

• 22 grants in FY2008
• 15 Cooperative Agreements in FY2009
• ?? In FY2010

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2008 Category 1/P Teacher Education
Cryospheric Connection to Understanding Climate
Change Educator Professional Climate Change
(Elem, MS, HS) Development Network (MS,
HS) Kathryn Berry Bertram / University of Alaska
Roberta Johnson / UCAR The Science and Policy
of Global Climate Inspiring Climate Education
Excellence (MS, HS) Change (Elem, MS, HS) Susan
Buhr / University of Colorado Pamela Matson /
Stanford University Global Climate Change
Education Teaching About Global Climate Change
(MS, HS) Exchange (Elem, MS, HS) Susan
Gallagher / Association of Bob Myers / Institute
for Global American Geographers Environmental
Strategies Global Climate Change Institute for
Teachers Integrated Media and Teacher
Professional (GccIFT) (Elem, MS) Development
Program (MS, HS) William Schoenfeld / Western
Oregon University James Short / American Museum
of Natural History Rice/HARC Initiative for
Climate Education Global Climate Change Literacy
for Educators (Elem) (MS, HS) Wallace Dominey
/ Rice University David Gosselin / University
of Nebraska Climate Change Education Project
(MS, HS) Teaching Climate Change (MS,
HS) Jennifer Schwarz / Chicago Botanic
Garden Melinda George / PBS
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2008 Category 2/D Teaching and Learning
Creating and Enduring Legacy of
Exemplary NASA-North Dakota Association of
Tribal Global Climate Change Education
for Colleges Climate Change Education
Initiative (UG) Secondary Science Teachers and
Under- Bull Bennett / ND Association of Tribal
Colleges served Students in Georgia (Elem, MS,
HS) Cherilynn Morrow / Georgia State
University Bringing Global Climate Change
Education SUNY Sustainability A Climate Change
Solution To Alabama Classrooms (HS) Curriculum
(UG) Marie Wooten / Auburn University David
Johnson / SUNY ESF Earth System Science - A Key
to Climate From Earth to the Sky Student
Experiential Literacy (HS) Learning in
Global Climate Change (UG) Tamara Ledley /
TERC James Spotila / Drexel University NASA
Data Resources for Climate and Creation and
Dissemination of an Interdisciplinary Weather
Education (MS) UG General Education Course on
Climate (UG) Jo Ellen Roseman / AAAS David
Blockstein / NCSE Climate, Technology and
Culture Providing Online Interactive Models of
Climate System a Content and Context in UG Global
Climate Dynamics to Expand the Reach and
Effective- Change Education (UG) ness of
Climate Change Education (UG) Naomi Oreskes /
University California San Diego David Bice /
Pennsylvania State University
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2009 Category P Teacher Education

• Climate Literacy Ambassadors
• Steven Ackerman / University of Wisconsin -
  Madison
• NASA-Museum Climate Change Science Education
  Collaborative Online and Blended Teacher
  Professional Development Programs
• Robert Steiner / American Museum of Natural
  History
• Climate Change, Adaptation and Mitigation in
  Prince William Sound
• Douglas Penn / Chugach School District, AK
• Lifelines for High School Climate Change
  Education
• Alan Gould / UC Berkeley, Lawrence Hall of
  Science
• Cooling the Liberal Arts Curriculum
• Neil Leary / Dickinson College
• GCCE Advancing Student Knowledge Through Teacher
  Education
• JoEllen Carlson / University of South Florida

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2009 Category D Data Models

• Climate Literacy Through Challenger Learning
  Centers
• Rita Karl / Challenger Center for Space Science
  Education
• Project-Based Education to Develop Climate Change
  Literacy within New York State
• Susan Powers / Clarkson University
• Carbon Connections - Earth, Communities, and You
• Steve Getty / Biological Sciences Curriculum
  Study
• NASA Data in My Field Trip
• Kerry Handron / Carnegie Institute
• Communicating Climate
• Gretchen Mullendore / University of North Dakota
• Remote sensing education using NASA satellite
  data and models
• Hyun Jun Cho / Jackson State University

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2009 Category R Research Experiences

• Undergraduate Research Experiences in Global
  Climate Change at Northern Arizona University
• George Koch / Northern Arizona University
• NCAR Global Climate Change Research Experiences
  for Teachers Institute
• Steven Anderson / University of Northern
  Colorado
• Effects of Climate Change on Phenology and Birds
• Jeffrey Hepinstall / University of Georgia,
  Athens

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