Hydrographic Surveying: Mapping the sea floor Hydrographic surveying is a scientific career that many people may not know about. In this activity, a sealed shoe box with a varied topography made out of clay will be measured by taking depth “soundings” with a skewer.
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Ocean Motion: Wind-driven currents
Model the flow of ocean surface currents by blowing air across a tub of rheoscopic fluid and water, with clay structures simulating coastlines, islands, and seafloor features.
Students will look at ozone data collected by NOAA at the South Pole with ozonesondes. Students will use ozone data to determine where the ozone layer is in the atmosphere.
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One mission of NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory is to monitor the amount of ozone in the stratosphere. Every year in October there is a dramatic decrease of ozone over the South Pole. This is called the Ozone Hole. Today you will look at ozone data from a Dobson Ozone Spectrometer. NOAA has Dobson instruments at many locations around the world. You will be looking at data from the Dobson located at the South Pole.
Students will look at carbon dioxide data from NOAA’s observatory on the top of Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
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Students will think about how NOAA measures carbon dioxide
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How has the climate changed in your state? Has the average temperature increased or decreased? How about record highs or record lows? Does your state receive more or less precipitation than 50 years ago? 100 years ago?
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Your community has 70 million credits for climate change resilience strategies. Discuss with your team
mates and make your choices below to prepare for the simulation.
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Adapted from an original activity by: Tarlise Townsend and Astrid Kause,
In collaboration with Peg Steffen, NOAA National Ocean Service, Dinh Thai Hung, Thanh Ngo Duc, and Vinh Nguyen Le Ai, and Susan Fox at NOAA Office of Coastal Management
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You and your fellow players are the leaders—citizens, policymakers, business leaders, nonprofit leaders,
and researchers—of a coastal city. You are excited about the potential to make the city a better place, but you also facing many challenges. One of these is climate change.
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