Tags: climate change

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  1. Environmental Drivers of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes from Minutes to Years

    11 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Christopher Gough1, Cindee Giffen2, Thomas W Woodward1

    1. Virginia Commonwealth University 2. University of Michigan

    Students build on fundamental concepts of ecosystem production and carbon cycling, combining this knowledge with open long-term data from ecological and meteorological networks to uncover the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/571/?v=1

  2. Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics

    06 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Wendy Clement1, Kathleen Prudic2, Jeffrey Oliver3

    1. The College of New Jersey 2. University of Arizona 3. University of Arizona Libraries

    This teaching module provides an entry point for students to learn about data science, open data repositories (e.g., citizen science data), and species distribution modeling to study the effects of...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1286/?v=1

  3. Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century

    05 Apr 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By James Biardi

    Fairfield University

    This module was used as an introduction to the science of climate change, with the goal of detecting trends in temperature change providing motivation for later course material on climate...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/455/?v=1

  4. Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century (Abstract) | TIEE

    11 May 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Emily Prince1, Daniel Taub2, Gillian Graham2

    1. Lander University 2. Southwestern University

    Module for practice included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 7

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/533/?v=1

  5. Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century (Abstract) | TIEE

    05 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Daniel Taub1, Gillian Graham1

    Southwestern University

    Module for practice included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 7

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/263/?v=1

  6. Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Global Climate Models and Graphing in Excel (Adapted for Non-Majors)

    28 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Tamara Basham

    Collin County Commuity College District

    Students link human behavior in various climate change scenarios to predicted temperature outcomes at both local (their assigned Latitude) and global (Latitudinal trends) scales. This adaptation is...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1865/?v=1

  7. Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)

    28 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ana Cristina Londono

    Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4377/?v=1

  8. Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)

    28 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By St. Thomas the Apostle School Greg Reiva

    St. Thomas the Apostle School

    Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4272/?v=1

  9. Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)

    11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Elizabeth Farrell

    SUNY Nassau Community College

    Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2919/?v=1

  10. Healing the scars: Tropical rainforest carbon cycling. Does it matter which tree species you plant?

    23 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ann E Russell1, Anneke Oosterom2, Eden Marek3, Lili Zhou1

    1. Iowa State University 2. St. Catherine University 3. Rhodeside Harwell

    This online module explores how differences in traits of tropical tree species translate into differential effects on the carbon cycle, integrating ecological information across scales and the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4335/?v=2

  11. Healing the scars: Tropical rainforest carbon cycling. Does it matter which tree species you plant?

    11 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ann E Russell1, Anneke Oosterom2, Eden Marek3, Lili Zhou1

    1. Iowa State University 2. St. Catherine University 3. Rhodeside Harwell

    This online module explores how differences in traits of tropical tree species translate into differential effects on the carbon cycle, integrating ecological information across scales and the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4335/?v=1

  12. High technology to measure forest carbon stocks: How can advanced remote sensing improve biomass quantification in the Brazilian Amazon?

    23 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Catherine Torres de Almeida

    Unesp (São Paulo State University)

    A case study on the estimation of aboveground biomass using advanced remote sensors (LiDAR and hyperspectral) in the Brazilian Amazon. Students explore remote sensing (RS) data and compare RS-based...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4440/?v=2

  13. High technology to measure forest carbon stocks: How can advanced remote sensing improve biomass quantification in the Brazilian Amazon?

    22 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Catherine Torres de Almeida

    Unesp (São Paulo State University)

    A case study on the estimation of aboveground biomass using advanced remote sensors (LiDAR and hyperspectral) in the Brazilian Amazon. Students explore remote sensing (RS) data and compare RS-based...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4440/?v=1

  14. How Do Certain Factors Impact People's Actions Toward Climate Change?

    10 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Annie Ping1, Spencer Eusden2

    1. Los Altos High School 2. Headwaters Science Institute

    A survey was conducted to research how age and knowledge about climate change can impact people’s actions regarding it. People have a large impact on the environment so knowing how different groups...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3685/?v=1

  15. Impact of Warming on Tidal Wetlands

    08 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Erik Kaseloo

    This lesson uses a t-test and ANOVA to determine if higher temperatures will have a significant impact on change in mangrove height, change in belowground biomass, and change in surface elevation...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3018/?v=1

  16. Introduction to Plant Phenology with Museum Specimens of Desert Prickly Pear (Opuntia phaeacantha)

    23 Feb 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Julie Marie Schlichte1, Michael Moody2, Vicky Zhuang

    1. The University of Texas at El Paso 2. University of Texas at El Paso

    Students engage in hands-on exploration of phenology by working with digitized herbarium specimens, particularly focusing on prickly pear specimens from the UTEP herbarium. They learn to identify...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4611/?v=1

  17. Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project EDDIE)

    18 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Melissa Hage

    Oxford College of Emory University

    This multi-part activity allows students to discover the relationships between CO2 and temperature and how these variables have changed over time using real-world data.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1756/?v=1

  18. Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project EDDIE) with CO2 and 13CO2 data: adapted for R

    23 Dec 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Marguerite Mauritz

    University of Texas at El Paso

    This is an adaptation to work in R of Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project) by Hage, M. 2020. Students will investigate geologic and modern evidence for global temperature and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2214/?v=1

  19. Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America

    15 May 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Todd Levine1, Kellen Calinger2

    1. Carroll University 2. Ohio State University

    Practice module included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 10

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/546/?v=1

  20. Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America

    05 Apr 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By James Eric Biardi

    Fairfield University

    The module was used in lab following lecture material on pairwise interactions in ecology (emphasizing consumption, competition, mutualism), and parallel to community ecology (emphasizing food web...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/456/?v=1