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Classroom Resource
To accompany the lecture series Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future. Using an online calculator, you will estimate your household’s carbon footprint and explore various actions to reduce it.
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.
Video Clips
At the end of the ice age, the retreating ice sheet created many new lakes, some of which were colonized by sticklebacks.
Video Clips
A brief introduction to how stickleback fossils are collected and used to study evolution. It also shows the students who attended the 2005 Holiday Lectures taking part in a fossil-collecting activity.
Interview
A postdoc in the Schrag lab, Dr. Shoemaker works on the greenhouse gas methane, which has surprising natural and man-made sources.
Lectures
A discussion on biodiversity, endangered habitats, and how best to preserve the Earth's ecosystems, presented by the lecturers along with Dr. E.O. Wilson and Dr. Eric Chivian.
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
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
A grassroots effort by winter sports professionals aims to convince the government to take action on climate change.
Video Clips
A mini-documentary illustrating the importance of the ocean to the Filipino way of life, and how that close connection helps biodiversity research.
Click & Learn
Earth's climate is a complex system controlled by many factors. This Click and Learn will examine the two most important factors: solar radiation and the composition of Earth's atmosphere.
Click & Learn
Explore the changes in oxygen levels throughout Earth’s history and discover their impact on life.
Classroom Resource
An activity that recreates zones of microbial activity in a glass column. To accompany the lecture series Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future.
