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Courtney Wilson

Exploring Earthquakes in Space and Time - 0 views

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    "This module contains an exercise in which students are asked to examine the frequency and distribution of earthquake epicenters and compare these epicenters to the distribution of plate boundaries and cities. Students download earthquake epicenters for the last several days and for an entire year from the Internet, and map the information using ArcView geographic information system (GIS), and analyze the patterns that become evident. The module presents background information on earthquakes and GIS, and includes step-by-step instructions for using the technological tools. This module can be adapted to a wide range of grade levels and may be presented as an introductory GIS exercise. It may be completed without a GIS by using a paper base map, but requires access to the World Wide Web (see Module Overview and Instructor's Notes)."
Nancy Trautmann

NBII Home - 0 views

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    The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools
Nancy Trautmann

IEEE Publication Fostering Earth Observation and Global Awareness - 0 views

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    Earthzine is an online source for news, articles, information and educational materials about Earth science, Earth observations and users of Earth information for the international Earth-observing community. Earthzine is updated regularly with news from around the world about the Earth, Earth observations, environmental policy, and new and emerging environmentally-friendly and earth-observing technologies.
Nancy Trautmann

Help us build a Bird ID tool, Cornell Lab of Ornithology - 1 views

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    "Merlin will be a new kind of bird identification tool-one that combines artificial intelligence with input from real-life bird watchers to produce an online "wizard" that helps people ID birds quickly and connects them to more information. To build Merlin, we need to know how thousands of people remember and describe birds. You can help us by playing games that gather the information to help Merlin understand what bird watchers see. The more you play, the more you'll help Merlin become a true bird ID wizard."
Courtney Wilson

New Gulf Coast Oil Spill Bird Tracker - eBird - 0 views

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    "Gulf Coast bird watchers continue to survey beaches and marshes for birds as oil gushes from the Deepwater Horizon oil well.This tool highlights 10 focal species of conservation concern that are being impacted by the current oil spill. For each species, we display hundreds of recent Gulf Coast sightings on a map along with count information.. This information can effectively steer beach protection and clean-up efforts to the sites with the greatest concentrations of birds and most important habitats. "
Courtney Wilson

Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Gulfseagrant.org - 0 views

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    "The Gulf of Mexico oil spill site, hosted by the four Gulf Sea Grant programs, provides visitors with current information about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as well as easy access to the archives of science-based and objective content gathered in the wake of the spill. Content will be continually updated, and visitors should check back often for new and revised information. "
Carol Burch

Ocean Climate Interactive web tool - 0 views

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    An engaging and informative interactive tool that allows students to explore many connected factors in air, land, and oceans systems. There are links to videos, visulas, other web resources, and descriptive information. Concept maps are included for each factor. This is rich and engaging.
Nancy Trautmann

Energy Consumption Rates across the USA and the World - 0 views

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    "In this activity, undergraduate students learn to use satellite and aerial imagery, maps, graphs, spreadsheets, descriptive information, and statistics to compare energy and oil consumption rates between states in the United States and among various countries. They also use this information to explain these differences, as well as differences in categories of consumption, such as domestic, transportation, industrial, and commercial use. They are also asked for opinions regarding what measures countries should take toward reducing oil consumption. "
Nancy Trautmann

Welcome to the Wind ENergy Data and Information (WENDI) Gateway | WENDI - 0 views

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    "virtual data repository", providing a gateway to information from a variety of data centers and web sites, including those of federal and state governments, academia, private industry, and wind energy-related trade associations. The tools and interfaces on this site have been designed to facilitate the discovery, visualization, subsetting, and downloading of this information.
Nancy Trautmann

New York Nature Explorer - 0 views

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    New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or area of interest. As a gateway to biodiversity information, it is intended for landowners, land managers, citizens, municipal officials, planners, consultants, project developers, researchers, students, and anyone else interested in the natural world. Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.
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    Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.
Nancy Trautmann

Geographic Information Systems Tools - UNC Carolina Population Center - 0 views

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    tool to map administrative region data stored in Excel spreadsheets without the need for GIS
Michael Batek

Overview - C-CAP Land Cover Atlas - Digital Coast - 0 views

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    This online data viewer provides user-friendly access to regional land cover and land cover change information developed through NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP). The Land Cover Atlas eliminates the need for desktop geographic information system software, or advanced technical expertise, by processing C-CAP data for the user and providing easy access to that distilled information.
Nancy Trautmann

Great Lakes Eco-Region: NOAA Education Resources - 0 views

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    Multimedia, lessons, data, and background information about the Great Lakes. Includes a "Listen to the Lake" podcast and several webcams. Lessons to download relate to watershed land use, fish life cycles, invasive species, human population, and others.
Nancy Trautmann

How many plant species are there in the world? Scientists now have an answer - 0 views

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    "First report of its kind assesses state of world's plants, including baseline information on all vascular plants currently known to science, new plant discoveries and threats. The report estimates that there are about 391,000 species of vascular plants in the world."
Nancy Trautmann

Encyclopedia of Life: Collections - 0 views

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    The EOL collection tool allows you to organize lists of species, information, media, maps, and sounds into a virtual collectionnthat you can annotate and share. Existing collections include "Darwin's Finches" and "Animal Phyla."
Nancy Trautmann

YardMap - Native Plants - 0 views

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    Enter your zipcode and download a "Pollinator Guide" with information about native plants specific to your ecoregion.
Nancy Trautmann

Why GIS in Education Matters - 0 views

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    "GIS is used as an inquiry-driven, problem-solving, standards-based set of tasks that incorporates fieldwork and provides career pathways that are increasingly in demand. It helps students think critically, use real data, and connects them to their own community. It does so in informal, primary, secondary, and university settings and appeals to today's visual learners. Geotechnologies, along with biotechnologies and nanotechnologies, are the three key skills and job markets identified by the US Department of Labor for the 21st Century (Gewin 2004)."
Nancy Trautmann

Cornell University | Learn the Secrets of Clark's Nutcrackers - 0 views

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    Taza set up this crowd-funding site to fund satellite transmitters for better tracking of Clark's Nutcrackers than she's been able to do with the hand-held units. "Clark's nutcrackers are pivotal players in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, dispersing whitebark pine seeds and enabling the trees to reproduce and regain their population amid a decline. The whitebark pine trees are critical to the ecosystem because of their role in feeding wildlife and stabilizing the water supply. In light of the severe decline of whitebark pine trees, tracking the movement of the nutcrackers will yield crucial findings which will help managers ensure persistence of the Clark's nutcrackers, whitebark pine and the nutcrackers' important seed dispersal function. Please help support this first-ever satellite tracking of Clark's nutcrackers by giving to this project, which will cover the satellite transmitter costs for one full year. Read on for more information!"
Nancy Trautmann

From Brazil: Doing Fieldwork by Satellite « Round Robin - 0 views

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    "ut the truth is that satellites are so last century-so much, in fact, that scientists have begun using them to document historical changes. The above picture, from NASA's 38-year-old Landsat program, shows the Lake Djoudj region of Senegal during a drought in 1979 and during a flood 20 years later. Even at this small scale it's clear how much information the pictures contain about how the land has changed."
Courtney Wilson

eRedux Energy: Sustainable Geoscial Products and Services Network - 0 views

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    "Sustainable Information and Resources Network Fostering pervasive geosocial environmental networking "
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