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Classroom Resource
EarthViewer was designed as an interactive learning tool. Download the PDF linked in the right hand column for some ideas on how to use the app in your class, or click on the EarthViewer link to find out more about the app.
Classroom Resource
A poster from the 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future. It details the importance of foraminifera, known as "forams" for short, in discovering significant changes in Earth's past.
Classroom Resource
A poster from the 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future. It shows the different organisms and metabolic diversity that results in a miniature model called a Winogradsky column.
Classroom Resource
A poster from the 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future. It illustrates how the Earth has evolved over the past 4.6 billion years, and highlights how that evolution influences biological evolution.
Interview
A graduate student in the Knoll lab, Ms. Creveling explains how she selects field sites, and what sparked her interest in geology.
Interview
A graduate student in the Schrag lab, Mr. Laakso uses computer modeling of Earth's atmosphere to help predict changes to come.
Interview
Dr. Knoll describes the path to becoming a geologist, and explains the importance of collaboration in scientific research.
Interview
Dr. Oreskes explains her switch from research science to science history, and what led her to write Merchants of Doubt.
Interview
Dr. Schrag recalls his parallel interests in earth science and political science and how the two have merged over the years.
Interview
A postdoc in the Schrag lab, Dr. Shoemaker works on the greenhouse gas methane, which has surprising natural and man-made sources.
Lectures
Microbes have been the dominant life form throughout Earth's history. Eukaryotes and animals evolved only after microbes evolved oxygen-generating photosynthesis.
Lectures
The theory of plate tectonics took many decades to become accepted. The process by which it was finally accepted provides a fascinating glimpse into how scientists build new scientific consensus.
Lectures
Earth has been both cooler and warmer in the past, but the change is usually gradual. The current rate of carbon dioxide increase is unprecedented in human history, and solutions to mitigate its effect on global warming are challenging to implement.
Lectures
Scientific evidence for global climate change is overwhelming, yet the American public remains skeptical. History provides insights into how a Cold War-era think tank became an influential source of anti-regulation sentiment.
Lectures
A discussion on climate change with the students attending the 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science.
Series
Has Earth changed over deep time? How did Earth shape life and life shape Earth? What does Earth's climate in the distant past tell us about the future?
Classroom Resource
Summaries and links to the data files used to create the charts in EarthViewer
Animation
Reconstructing past continental plate movements reveals the island of Spitsbergen was tropical 500 million years ago.
Animation
The breakup of a supercontinent into several smaller continents explains the distribution of fossil and geologic evidence.
Animation
An early model of continental drift proposed that parts of continental plates can sink into the mantle, allowing for movement.
Animation
An early continental drift model proposed that mantle convection can produce continental movement and new plate formation.
Animation
Sunlight that warms Earth is re-emitted as infrared radiation, which is absorbed by greenhouse gases and causes further warming.
Animation
CO2 emitted by volcanoes into the atmosphere is removed by a series of chemical reactions related to rock weathering.
Animation
Arctic sea ice melted on an unprecedented scale in 2012, opening up the fabled Northwest and Northeast passages.
Video Clips
Continents rose in elevation after ice sheets from the last ice age retreated. This suggested that the underlying mantle is pliable.
