Project Leader
John Buchanan (FCAS; NY John.Buchanan@ISO.com)
Ralph Archbold (CSP, CPAE; PA www.ben1776.com)
Dr Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre via ACRE, UK)
Gil Compo (Research Scientist, CDC CIRES/NOAA-ESRL,University of Colorado at Boulder, CO)
James Fleming (Professor, Colby College, ME
Eric Freeman (Meteorologist, NOAA-NCDC, NC) Dr Stuart Green (Clinical Professor, University of California-Irvine, CA)
Tom Knutson (Research Meteorologist, NOAA-GFDL, NJ) Richard Kurtz (Science Teacher, Commack High School, NY)
Student Climate Research Campaign - GLOBE (Boulder, CO) The Colonial Era Data Study is a wide ranging educational based climate change research project. This research combines the areas of history, mathematics/statistics, Earth science, computer/data visualization, and global communication. For Phase 1, we created a YouTube video starring Ralph Archbold as Ben Franklin, demonstrating the relevance and value of colonial era records in the modern analysis of climate change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LayE_wirI.
A description of Phase 2 of CEDS, expanding these concepts to middle and high school students, is contained in this YouTube video produced in Calgary at the August 2010 GLOBE annual conference http://www.youtube.com/user/globeprogram#p/a/u/2/PzjZ2xdWfC0
Additional information is contained in the Comments description below, along with various relevant links. |
Project will commence in 2009. As a small initial sample, will compare readings taken during Ben Franklin's voyages across the Atlantic in 1775, 1776, and 1785 to current climate records.
See Philip Brohan Antarctic voyages using Google Earth - http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/566451115uPBUmh
For Phase 2 of US CEDS, a poster presentation has been prepared to present in November 2010 in Baltimore. Below is the abstract.
U.S. Colonial Era Data Study - Exploring Connections between the Past and Today
The Colonial Era Data Study is a wide ranging educational based climate change research project. This research combines the areas of history, mathematics/statistics, Earth science, computer/data visualization, and global communication. The project is sponsored by groups such as ACRE and the American Philosophical Society and utilizes representatives from NOAA, UK Hadley Center, university professor, and a museum archivist. It is one of many projects sponsored by ACRE to recover, digitize, and analyze historical weather observations. For phase 1 of US CEDS, an entertaining 8-minute YouTube video was released in August highlighting the link between climate observations from historical figures and ordinary citizens to those observations from today. This video supports the GLOBE organization's upcoming 2011-2013 Student Climate Research Campaign.
A second phase of the U.S. CEDS project is actively expanding these concepts with various middle and high schools in a hands-on learning experience. Classroom posters and teacher’s idea sheets are prepared, with links given below. This project presents appealing materials for the development of communication skills and the accrual of important world knowledge. Because of this topic’s interdisciplinary nature, the project can also be particularly effective in various language arts instruction, both for mainstream and ELL students. An activity book in English and Spanish, geared for GLOBE middle and high school students, is planned for 2011.
For this poster session, two comparative case studies are presented, using Colonial Era land and sea information. The blueprint methodology used and initial results from the colonial era land study (using 5 years worth of data ending in 1770 by Phineas Pemberton in Philadelphia) will be described in more detail in the Friday plenary session by Marni Wasserman, a Commack High School senior.
For background:
http://www.youtube.com/user/globeprogram#p/a/u/2/PzjZ2xdWfC0
http://www.casact.org/newsletter/index.cfm?fa=viewart&id=5987
PowerPoint images of this poster session can be downloaded below:
Calgary2010_Franklin CCV Poster-11x17-gr-jwb2.ppt
Calgary2010_Franklin CCV MS Teachers Ideas-gr-jwb2.ppt
Calgary2010_Franklin_CCV_ELL_Teachers_Ideas-jwb2-ga3.ppt
Watch Ben Franklin's Climate Change video (submitted to Sundance and other Film Festivals under the Environmental category):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LayE_wirI