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Global Climate Change Impacts in the Western United States
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This Web Seminar took place on November 5, 2009, from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Eastern
Time. Presenting was Katharine Hayhoe, Professor in
the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University, Frank
Niepold, UCAR Climate Education Coordinator at NOAA Climate Program Office,
and Peg Steffen, Education Branch Chief at NOAA. In this Seminar, professor Hayhoe
focused the presentation on specific climate changes, current and expected in the
Western United States.
The first in a series of web seminars on climate change from NOAA as well as other
governmental organizations started with some background on general climate change
data and moved to specific regional climate issues of the Western United States.
The presentation focused on information contained in the Global Climate Change Impacts
in the United States report which is largely based on results of the U.S. Global
Change Research Program (USGCRP), and integrates those results with related research
from around the world. Peg Steffen gave a web tour of a climate change tool-kit
from NOAA and Frank Niepold assisted on the chat.
Sixty-eight (68) participants were present at the live Web Seminar in addition to
the presenter and NSTA staff. Participating educators represented the states of
Alabama, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New
Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Two
participants attended the Web Seminar from countries outside the United States:
Ecuador and Costa Rica
Seminar participants received a one year subscription to one of NSTA’s SciGuides
and a certificate of attendance was deposited into their My Transcript area in the
NSTA Learning Center for completing the evaluation form at the end of the program.
Here are some comments provided by the participants at the end of the Web Seminar:
- “Global climate change is included in the curriculum that I teach.”
- “I would love to show this seminar to my Environmental Science students. I feel
they would benefit tremendously from the data/facts/graphs and also from the examples
and resources.”
- “We teach Science and the Environment through Life Science, so very helpful.”
- “The presenter was wonderful at explaining the content and bringing the relevance
that we need for our students. Having an expert from NOAA was fantastic!”
Thanks to the participants and the presenter for the learning opportunity, the interactions,
and a job well done!
Websites
To see more programs on Climate Change visit: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/
symposia_seminars/fall09/NOAA/webseminar.aspx
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Underwritten in part by: NOAA
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