JPL Workshop

• • Major Global environmental challenges

  • Major Global challenges - United Nations

  • Environmental issues - Numerous facts

• Visualizing major challenges

  • • Earth Data - real-time comparisons & visualizations

    • NASA Eyes - Visualization of world wide environmental phenomena

    • Earth Now - real-time data from NASA

    • Data Sets - use with CODAP or spreadsheets

• Lesson Ideas

• • Air Pollution

  • Earth Data - Air Quality

  • Air Pollution

  • Carbon Dioxide and climate change

• Water

• • Water Pollution

  • Drought

  • Climate Change

    • Drawdown - possible solutions for climate change

    • En-Route - climate modeling

  • X-prize 

  • Earthquakes

  • NASA Earth Observatory - Earthquakes

  • Seismic Explorer

  • Earthquakes and Volcanoes

• Deforestation

  • • Reforestation - USDA

    • Reforestation Projects - Nature4Climate

    • Deforestation - success stories - Union of Concerned Scientists

• Desertification

• • Desertification - NASA Earth Observatory

• Sea Level Rise

  • • NASA Eyes - Visualize sea levels worldwide

    • Risk Zone Map - Visualizing Sea Level Rise

• Urban Heat Islands

• • Urban Heat Islands

  •  Floods

  • Earth Data - Floods

  • Fires