Department of Earth & Planetary Science, PhD student, Southampton University (UK); SpitFire visiting predoctoral scholar at Northwestern
Learn more about her research here:
https://www.earth.northwestern.edu/our-people/phd-graduate-students/roseanna-mayfield.html
PhD Student, Department of Earth & Planetary Science
Learn more about her research here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqBCl5bNHuw&feature=youtu.be
Use this video with students to introduce how tree rings, sediment, and pollen are used to determine past climates.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/climate-reconstruction
Proxy data used to reconstruct paleoclimates.
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/
Easy to follow approach to glacier studies and theory. Site includes an "ask a scientist" page to get your questions answered. Interactive glacier model page too.
http://www.atmosedu.com/physlets/DaisyWorld/Daisy.htm
Good for teaching albedo and how different colored surfaces absorb more solar energy, and can affect the temperature of the planet.
https://scied.ucar.edu/tree-ring-interactive
Tree rings as proxy data to learn about past climates. Interactive simulation tells us about climate conditions in the past.
Ice cores: https://scied.ucar.edu/ice-cores-studying-past-climate-movie
Coral reefs: https://scied.ucar.edu/coral-studying-past-climate-movie
Lake sediments: https://scied.ucar.edu/coral-studying-past-climate-movie
https://www.uib.no/filearchive/quatpalaeo_intro.pdf
Image-rich slides provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of Quaternary Paleoecology. Students could harvest these for information, or use them as a primer.
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507208/1/IsotopesLakes.pdf
Introduction to isotope analysis from lake sediments. What are they, what can they tell us, and examples.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ884408.pdf
Foundational paper on paleoecology and rationale for teaching it in schools.