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Title
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| 1 | Mapping Coral Bleaching Modified with NOAA and Authentic Bleaching data | 1 | Coral Reefs in Hot Water |
Authors
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| 1 | Kristine Grayson () | ||
| 2 | Kristine Grayson () | ||
| 3 | Hayley Orndorf (University of Pittsburgh) | ||
| 1 | HHMI BioInteractive () | 4 | HHMI BioInteractive () |
| 2 | Kristine Grayson (University of Richmond) | 2 | Kaitlin Bonner (St. John Fisher College) |
| 3 | Kristine Grayson (University of Richmond) | ||
Description
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| 1 | <p>This adaptation uses the graphing principles of the HHMI Coral Bleaching Activity, but has the students work specifically with four locations in the Caribbean where complimentary measures of coral bleaching are available. This exercise is written so students access the primary data themselves from NOAA Coral Reef watch and experience downloading and cleaning large public datasets. Alternatively, the Excel files for each location can be provided to students.</p> | 1 | <p>This activity was modified from K. Grayson. It was implemented in a second semester first year course for biology majors laboratory. It is one of two activities in the lab, about 1-1.5 hours. Here the students use Google Sheets to generate SST graphs, including degree heating weeks (DHW). Using Google Sheets enables students to see each others figures and answer leading questions at the end of the activity. The activity concludes with students making predictions of bleaching given their results for 2005 and comparing their predictions to observed bleaching by interpreting figures from Eakin <i> et al.</i> 2010. </p> |
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| 3 | <p>The attached files include 1) a modification of the HHMI activity sheet with instructions for accessing the sea surface temperature data, 2) a modification of the NOAA Education Background presentation, 3) bleaching data from Eakin et al. (2010) reduced to the four sites of interest, 4) NOAA sea surface temperature data for the four locations in the activity if time doesn’t permit students downloading it themselves, 5) another source of inspiration for this modification, Parker (2009) a student activity for interpreting sea surface temperature maps. I used the locations in Parker for building my adaption but instead of providing them the figures to interpret, I asked the students both to access the data themselves directly from NOAA and draw the SST figures themselves (in the same vein as the HHMI graphing activity). And instead of providing them with the drawn figure of the bleaching damage, I gave them the raw data from Eakin et al. (2010) and had them draw it themselves before making inferences.</p> | ||
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| 5 | <p> </p> | ||
Attachments
| 1 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/Caribbean Corals in Crisis 2005_DATA CLEANED--with Graph.xlsx | 1 | file — ./Bonner-coral bleaching/FinalSSTandCoralBleaching_Bonner modifications.pdf |
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| 2 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/Grayson_Final SST and Coral Bleaching-2017.pdf | 2 | file — ./Bonner-coral bleaching/QUBES_CoralBleachingLabActivity_Student Version.xlsx |
| 3 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/RAW NOAA timeseries data description.txt | 3 | link — Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 |
| 4 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/vs_ts_Bermuda.txt | 4 | link — A Classroom Activity Using Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures to Predict Coral Bleaching | Oceanography |
| 5 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/vs_ts_LeeStockingIsland_Bahamas.txt | 5 | link — NOAA Coral Reef Watch Education and Outreach |
| 6 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/vs_ts_PuertoRico.txt | 6 | file — ./Bonner-coral bleaching/Figure.png |
| 7 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/vs_ts_USVirginIslands.txt | 7 | link — Coral Bleaching Activity | HHMI BioInteractive |
| 8 | link — Coral Bleaching Activity | HHMI BioInteractive | 8 | link — |
| 9 | file — publication_360_387/coralbleaching-thumb.jpg | 9 | publication — Mapping Coral Bleaching Modified with NOAA and Authentic Bleaching data |
| 10 | link — NOAA Coral Reef Watch Education and Outreach | ||
| 11 | link — A Classroom Activity Using Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures to Predict Coral Bleaching | Oceanography | ||
| 12 | link — Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 | ||
| 13 | file — ./Grayson-coral bleaching/SST_graph.JPG |