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    SUSTAINABILITY METRICS AND INDICES
    Sustainability metrics and indices are measures of sustainability, and attempt to quantify beyond the general concept. Though there are disagreements among those from different disciplines (and...

    Keywords: climate changeSustainability Literacy

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    Using IPAT to Measure Urban Sustainability
    Urban sustainability can be complicated to measure because sustainability means different things to different people. This challenge can be partially overcome through adoption of a guiding...

    Keywords: datasurveyurban ecosystemsUrban sustainability

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    Angiosperm Diversity in Pollination Systems
    This activity is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students engaged in ecology and biodiversity sustainability studies. This activity will explore how plant-pollinator...

    Keywords: data visualizationBiodiversityplantsPlant-insect interactionsnetworkinsectsBLUEpollinators

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    Angiosperm Diversity in Pollination Systems
    This activity is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students engaged in ecology and biodiversity sustainability studies. This activity will explore how plant-pollinator...

    Keywords: data visualizationBiodiversityplantsPlant-insect interactionsnetworkinsectsBLUEpollinators

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    Carbon Sequestration and the Urban heat Island Effect
    An urban heat island is an urban or metropolitan area that is on average far warmer than the surrounding rural areas. In this lesson we will study the impact these warmer temperatures have on...

    Keywords: RStudiodecision treesurban ecologyCarbon sequestration of forests vegetationUrban heat island

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    YEAH - Youth Environment Alliance in Higher Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Youth Environment Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH) Network links academic institutions together to provide integrated knowledge that empowers students to address complex global environmental...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Prairie Eco Services (Project EDDIE)
    As densely populated urban areas continue to expand, human activity is removing much-needed greenspaces from our communities; in turn, we are also removing critical buffers that are needed to...

    Keywords: Project EDDIEWater cycle

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    Exploring Connections between Low Albedo, Urban Heat Islands and Social Justice
    This exercise explores circumstances of urban heat islands in the United States using spatial data, including an exploration of heat island solutions.

    Keywords: redliningUrban heat islandalbedo

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    REMNet: A Student’s Introduction to Urban Microbiomes 5.3.19
    Video on urban microbiomes from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: VideoMicrobiology Educationresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomesmicrobiology research

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    The Importance of Street Trees and Urban Avifauna: A lesson exploring the relationship between urban forest and foraging birds
    This module examines the relationship between street trees, urban avifauna, and socioeconomic gradients in the highly urbanized county of Los Angeles, California. Using edited data from a published...

    Keywords: conservationBiodiversityurbanizationGeneralized linear modelsavifaunaurban forestsocioeconomicsstreet treesnegative binomial regression

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    The Education for Sustainability – Philly Project: Supporting Teachers to Develop Lessons on Sustainability
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMsustainabilityResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education
    Combining understanding of OER sustainability and equity and justice to carve out ideas for the future of STEM open education.

    Keywords: sustainabilityOERsocial justicenonprofitdigital library

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    Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)
    In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.

    Keywords: World Geography

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    Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)
    In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.
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    Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)
    In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.
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    How Luxury and Legacy Effects Shape Urban Avifauna in Los Angeles, California
    Is L.A.’s bird population shaped by historic redlining and income inequality? This lesson will introduce luxury and legacy effects hypotheses as they relate to urban avifauna in LA neighborhoods....

    Keywords: ANCOVASimple Linear Regressionurban ecologyredliningavian ecology

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    The Power of Place: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Studying Urban Ecology, Local Apple Trees and Disease Susceptibility
    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) offered early in an undergraduate student’s career have the potential to include a greater number and diversity of students than...

    Keywords: Disease ecologyurban ecologyUrban food forestsUrban heat islandsGenetic resistance

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    Developing Data Literacy Skills and Connecting the Student Experience in the Classroom to the Community Through Biodiversity Projects
    Undergraduate education and long-term science literacy are enhanced by integrating data projects with public datasets and creating analysis summaries. Underutilized public datasets are often...

    Keywords: species richnessBiodiversitydisturbanceHabitat rangePopulation abundance

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    Evaluation of NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Summit
    Data summary for evaluation findings of the NSF RCN-UBE: Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education (SCORE) summit held at Bates College,...

    Keywords: evaluationSTEM Evaluation

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    NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Pre-Data Summary Report
    Evaluation findings of the SCORE Pre-Summit Survey with participant demographics.

    Keywords: evaluationSTEM Evaluation

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