This month Earthscape completes its collection of educational features from NASA’s Earth Observatory. These articles provide accessible summaries of scientific research and allow learners to accompany NASA scientists as they explore and unravel the mysteries of climate and environmental change.

E-Seminar

Toxic Blooms: Understanding Red Tides
Don Anderson, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an expert on HABs, explains the basic biology and ecology of HABs. He highlights the organisms responsible, what kinds of toxins they produce, and what possible measures can be taken to control them.

Educational Resources

Online Ocean Studies, A Local - National Teaching Partnership
The American Meteorological Society recently launched this introductory college course for undergraduate institutions nationwide. Online Ocean Studies is an innovative, 12- to 15-week course prepared by an experienced team of oceanographers and science educators.

Also from the American Meteorological Society, Project Atmosphere promotes studies in the atmospheric sciences at elementary, middle and secondary school levels. It is designed to encourage teachers to use the science whose data and products are most frequently reported to the public in classroom learning activities across the curriculum. Its main goal is to promote interest and literacy in science, technology, and mathematics at the precollege level.

Ocean Surface Topography From Space
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepared a veritable ocean of educational resources on weather, climate, and oceanic science for learners of all ages and backgrounds.

A Tour of the Cryosphere: The Earth’s Frozen Assets
NASA Earth Observing satellites are providing scientists with unparalleled insight into how the cryosphere behaves, how it is changing, and what implications those changes have on the Earth's global systems, including weather and climate.

This 8-minute feature animation takes the viewer on a tour of the cryosphere as it exists around the world. From shrinking Arctic sea ice to retreating glaciers and collapsing Antarctic ice shelves, this unique global view of cryospheric research is shown with state-of-the-art Earth observing satellite data animations.

Volcanoes: Products, Hazards and their Role in the Evolution of the Atmosphere & Oceans

The Epic 2001 Stratocumulus Study

A Process-Based Analysis of Methane Exchanges Between Alaskan Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere