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Teaching Climate with Models: Breathing of the Earth
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Dr. Randy Russell
Randy Russell is the Lead Web and Interactive Multimedia Developer for Spark. Spark
(spark.ucar.edu) is the science education group at NCAR (the National Center for
Atmospheric Research), a major climate, weather, and atmospheric science research
lab in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a B.S. in astrophysics from Michigan State University
(MSU), a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland,
and Ph.D. in educational systems development (also from MSU). He co-developed a
series of online courses for educators called Climate Discovery and facilitates
workshops for science educator professional development on a range of Earth science
and space science topics.
Dr. Scott Denning
Scott Denning is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University
in Fort Collins, Colorado. He leads a large research group using many kinds of observations
and models to understand the metabolism of the Earth’s biosphere. He also serves
as Director of Education and Diversity for CMMAP, the Center for Multiscale Modeling
of Atmospheric Processes, working to enhance understanding of global climate through
K-12, undergraduate, and graduate study as well as informal education and public
presentations.
His undergraduate degree is in Geology, from the University of Maine. Following
a very brief career in the oil industry, he worked on biogeochemistry of a high
mountain watershed for several years before his PhD studies at Colorado State University.
Denning joined the faculty of the School of Environmental Science and Management
at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1996 and returned to Colorado
in 1998 where he joined the faculty at his alma mater.
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Underwritten by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
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