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Links For BAESI Workshops

• Human Impacts on Biodiversity - February, 2012
• California Earthquakes, Faults, & Geology  - January, 2012
• The Fossil Record - November, 2011
• Rocks, Minerals, Soils and Society - November, 2011
• Climate Change and Its Impact on California and the Bay Area - November, 2011
• Bay Area Geology/Field Trip to Mt. Diablo -  October, 2011

• Sustainability as a Context for Teaching Standards-Based Science - September 2011
• Earth Science, Science, and Sustainability - July 2011
• Earth's Changing Climate - July 2011
• California Geology and Geologic Hazards - July 2011
• Geologic Hazards - May 2011
• Fossils - March 2011
• Uncertainty and Risk in the Petroleum Industry - February 2011
• Rocks and Minerals - January 2011
• The Integrated Ocean Drilling Project (IODP): A Vehicle for Investigating Plate Tectonics, Climate Change, and Other Global Topics in Earth Science    - November 2010
• Plate Tectonics - October 2010
• Climate and Climate Change - October 2010
• Field trip, Half Moon Bay to Pacifica - September 2010
• California's Resources - July 2010
• California's Plate-Tectonics History/ Transform Faults - June 2010
• Exploring For Oil and Gas - May, 2010
• Energy For the Future - April 2010
• Global Warming and Our Carbon Footprint - March, 2010
• Earth's Surface Features - February, 2010
• Plate Tectonics - January, 2010
• Rocks and Minerals - October 2009
• Water in A Changing Climate - July 2009
• Earth's Climate System - June 2009
• The Fossil Record - March 14, 2009
  
• Earthquakes and Volcanoes  -  January 24, 2009
  
• Energy, Minerals, and the Future - Dec. 6, 2008
  
• Earth and Life Through Time - November 15, 2008 
• CSTA Short Course (Oct. 08) A Tectonic Time Bomb in our Backyard: The Hayward Fault 
• California's Resources Workshop - June, 2008
• Surf Your Watershed
• Models for Teaching Earth Science - March 15, 2008
• Volcanoes - November 17, 2007
• Astronomy - October 27, 2007
• Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Jan. 20, 2007
• NASA Earth Science for Teachers
• Rocks and Shocks, August 7-11, 2006
• Understanding Earth Science through Problem Based Learning  - April 22, 2006
• Sun-Earth Connections - March 4, 2006
• Earthquakes: Faults and Hazards - Jan, 14, 2006
• Shaping Earth's Surface - November 19, 2005
• Using Authentic Data to Teach Meteorology - October 29, 2005
• Geologic Hazards - September 17, 2005
• CAMS Workshop - July 2005
• California's Water - March 5, 2005
• Asian Earthquake and Tsunami of 2004
• Effect of Earthquakes on People and the Landscape - November 20, 2004
• Volcanoes and the Earth System November 13, 2004
• PS3 Plate Tectonics (6th grade) June 21-25, 2004  
• Plate Tectonics - May 15, 2004
  
• The Search for Life on Mars - April 24, 2004
• Mars! - November 15, 2003
•  Dynamic Earth Sessions 4 and 5: Creating an Earth System
• SFUSD, February 8 and March 1, 2003
•  El Niño Workshop -  Jan. 25, 2003

Good Weather Links

• http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/bigmain.html Interactive. Good site to see animations of the current weather. Warnings and Advisors from the NWS by state. Gives a view of the Pacific that is often not included in US satellite.
• http://www.ametsoc.org/dstreme/index.html American Meteorological Society pages of current meteorological information, with many items useful to teaching. Good links to the NWS also.
• http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wgraph0.htm Helping you understand weather
• Below are links to USATODAY.com graphics and photo scrapbooks with captions explaining the photos. These will help you understand weather, climate and some other earth sciences topics. Interactive graphics are highlighted in red.
• http://www.weather-photography.com/index.php This site contains photographs of many weather phenomena, and information on how to photograph these. The photo collection consists of five categories: Atmospheric Optics, Lightning, Clouds, Astronomy, Miscellaneous
• http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.html NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division (Code 7) Satellite Meteorology
• http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ Geostationary satellite server. Wonderful pictures from the GOES
• http://weather.gov/ National Weather Service home page. A wealth of information. Check the left side bar for navigating through the pages.
• http://metsun1.met.sjsu.edu/webcam/ SJSU weather cam and archives. Link to Meteorology department
• http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Monterey/ NWS Monterey Station. Current local weather information, includes latest El Niño news, Web Cams, Current Hazards, Local Warnings, Storm Reports, Current Conditions, Forecasts, Maps & Charts, Fire Weather, Winter Weather, Sun/Moon/Tides, Climate Outlook, Weather Safety, and Miscellaneous. Check the left side bar for navigating through the pages.
• http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ NWS NOAA joint page. Includes a search engine. Check the left side bar for navigating through the pages.

El Niño Sites

• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html El Niño theme page. Access to distributed information on El Niño: The basics , What’s happening now?, and Where can I find data on El Niño? Excellent source. It would take a week to check out all of these pages.
• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/impacts.html El Niño impacts
• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/ Real time data from the moored buoys for improved detection, understanding, and prediction of El Niño and La Niña
• http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/ NOAA El Niño Home page. Excellent source. Similar to El Niño theme page. Includes La Niña information. Links to El Niño forecast, observations, and research
• http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/edu.html Educational site.
• http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/elnino/ USGS News and Information on El Niño Floods || Landslides || Coastal Hazards || Climate || News Releases || Other Information
• http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/response/ USGS site: Oblique Aerial Photography - Coastal Erosion from El-Niño Winter Storms: S. Washington/N. Oregon | Central California | Southern California
• http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/fact-sheet/fs175-99/ El Niño Sea-Level Rise Wreaks Havoc in California's San Francisco Bay Region
• http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/enso/ Office of Global Programs El Niño page. Part of NOAA.
• http://www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/el_nino.html El Niño work book for younger children. Older page that has some links that no longer work.
• http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.different.html Climate Diagnostic Center. Comparison of Different El Niño and La Niña Events
• http://cwatchwc.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/elnino.cgi Coast Watch: El Niño Watch, Advisory 2002-12. Coastal Ocean Mean SST (°F) and Deviation from Normal, December, 2002
• http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/ Climate Prediction Center El Niño La Niña
• http://nsipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/enso/visualizations/index.html El Niño visualizations. Good graphics of ’97 El Niño
• http://www.esig.ucar.edu/elnino/glossary.html Glossary of El Niño terms from the report of the conference, The Potential Use and Misuse of El Niño Information in North America, found at http://www.esig.ucar.edu/elnino/contents.html
• http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/elnino/20021202.html Topex site, with satellite views of the earth, El Niño page
• http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/topex/elnino.html Topex educational outreach on El Niño
• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino-report.html El Niño Report to the Nation
• http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/education/oceanworld/ Ocean World El Niño page. Texas A&M Lesson plans and oceanographic topics.
• http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/edudoc.html Huge list of educational science resources online and by mail
• More resources from JPL http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/education.html

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