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NCAR Climate Discovery Online Courses Climate Discovery Online Courses for Educators -- Summer Session now accepting registrations! Are you seeking a K-12 professional development opportunity that will enhance your qualifications, competency, and self-confidence in integrating Earth system science, climate, and global change into your science classroom? This summer NCAR offers a series of seven-week online courses for middle and high school teachers that combine geoscience content, information about current climate research, easy to implement hands-on activities, and group discussion. The courses run concurrently beginning June 20 and run through August 15. - CD 501 Introduction to Earth's Climate is designed to guide participants through the basics of climate science, integrating content, classroom activities, and community-building discussions to help middle and high school educators understand the answers to common questions about climate.
- CD 502 Earth System Science: A Climate Change Perspective explores Earth as a system from the perspective of climate and global change, describing the interactions between the various parts of the Earth system, including human activities, and how they all affect our climate.
- CD 503 Understanding Climate Change Today presents some of the current and predicted impacts of global warming on our planet and human societies. This course explores how climate models are developed and used to understand likely scenarios of future climate and how current scientific research is improving the quality of climate predictions.
There is a $200 fee per course. For complete course schedule and registration information, visit http://ecourses.ncar.ucar.edu DataStreme Atmosphere The Montana/Wyoming AMS Atmosphere LIT still has six (6) slots available for the spring 2008 offering of DataStreme Atmosphere. This class is FREE and provides three (3) graduate credits in Earth System Science from State University of New York - Brockport. If you are interested in this class please contact Windsor Copley (copleyw@mail.uinta6.k12.wy.us ) or Rick Jones (jonesr@billings.k12.mt.us) as soon as possible. Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth 5-9 October 2008 • Houston, Texas George R. Brown Convention Center The 2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM. Hosted by the Houston Geological Society
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