Poster Topic for Climate Change
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| Potential Poster topics. | |
| Science vs. Myth? | Is it warmer? How do we KNOW? |
| skepticalscience.com | Is CO2 higher? How do we KNOW? |
| Lecture Slides | Is the CO2 from Humans? How do we KNOW? |
| How does CO2 warm Air? | |
| Could warming over the past century be from the Sun? | |
| Could warming over the past century be from the Volcanos? | |
| Could warming over the past century be just from Natural Variation? | |
| 2 degrees C is not that much! Or is it??? | |
| What do Models Project for the future? | |
| Current Impacts? | Melting of the Polar ice caps and implications for: SLR, Ocean Circulation/Hurricanes |
| Ocean acidification: Mechanism and impacts | |
| Ocean Warming: Mechanism and impacts on coral, ocean food web, CO2 release. | |
| Droughts - are there more with global warming? Why? What are the impacts? | |
| Wild fire - are these increasing with global warming? What is the mechanism? | |
| Hurricanes - why are these bigger with global warming? | |
| What impacts have there been on agriculture? | |
| Are there potential impacts on human disease spread? | |
| What would be the impacts of slower Ocean Circulation? | |
| What Can We Do? | |
| Economics: | Economics of the Energy Transition vs. Cost of the Impacts? |
| Nobel Peace Prize in Economics | |
| Should the Energy Transition impact he GDP? | |
| Mitigation: | Animal Agriculture |
| Project Drawdown - what is this? | |
| Solar: Pros, Cons & Example | |
| Wind: Pros, Cons & Example | |
| Electric Cars: Pros, Cons & Example | |
| C Neutral Examples: Georgetown TX, other cities, Countries, timelines. | |
| Save the rain forests | |
| Adaptation: | Current examples: sea walls in Miami, where else? |
| Geoengineering: | Diamonds from the Sky, company using atmospheric CO2 to make products. |
| Fertilize the oceans | |
| Sulpher Dioxide | |
| Policy: | Paris Agreement (compare with Kyoto and Montreal Protocol) |
| C Fee & Dividend (vs. Cap & Trade, C Tax) | |
| Court Cases: | Youth v. Gov. |
| NYC v. Fossil Fuels | |
| Oregon Fisheries v. US EPA | |
| Protest: | Who is or what groups are protesting? In what ways? What are they protesting for? |
| 350.org - Why is 350 the Goal? How can we get there? | |
| Greta Thunberg & School strike for climate, COP24 2018 | |
| Severn Suzuki from Rio Earth Summit in 1992 | |
| Direct Action: | Examples: Valve Turners, Bridge Hangers, what drives people to this? |
| Divest: | What is this? NYC Example, Universities? OSU? Others? |
| Education: | US Next Generation Science Standards, What are these? How do they help? |
| Post-carbon Institute: | What is this? Where is it located? What do they do? |
| Denial: | What is this: Doubt, Oregon Petition, Climate Gate |
Assignments
| 1) Week 5 Lab: Ocean Acidification (20 points) | |||
| Poster Topic with Web Links (20 points, due night before next Lab) | |||
| Decide on a topic you are interested in and submit the following to the Poster Topic Discussion Board: | |||
| 1) Question / Problem (Will become Title) with 100 - 200 word overveiw of why this is interesting and how it relates to this class. | |||
| 2) At least 2 weblinks or references covering different aspects of the issue | |||
| At least 5 Bullet Points for each weblink | |||
| 3) At least one Science Data Figure with at least 3 Bullet Points | |||
| 4) Comment on others posts that are similar or that you would be interested to join their poster group | |||
| (There will be 3-4 people/ poster group) | |||
| 2) Week 6 Lab: Midterm Review Game (10 points) | |||
| & Poster Group Outline (10 points, due night before Week 8 Lab) | |||
| Determine poster groups & final or merged ideas. | |||
| Posters should primarily use bullet points rather than paragraphs. | |||
| Place the info above into poster template, including: | |||
| 1) Title/Question? (also authors and Lab section) | |||
| Leave room to add these sections during Week 8 Lab: | |||
| Short Abstract | |||
| Intro | |||
| Methods | |||
| 2) Bullets from weblinks with headings | |||
| 3) Science Data Figure(s) and bullet points. Make sure all axes are labeled! | |||
| 4) Conclusion | |||
| 5) References | |||
| Week 7 Lab: Field Trip & Carbon Footprint | |||
| 3) Week 8 Lab, Poster Creation (Due by end of Lab, 20 points) | |||
| Finish your poster, including Brief Abstract, Intro & Methods or other changes/updates. | |||
| UPLOAD final posters to Canvas (Due by end of Lab) | |||
| Submit poster to Library to print for Peer Review in Week 9 Lab next week | |||
| 4) Week 9 Lab (20 points, due in Lab) | |||
| Peer review each others posters. | |||
| I. Presentation: | |||
| 1) How did the presentation of your poster go? Did everyone have something to contribute? (5 pts, TA grades) | |||
| 2) What was the most useful suggestion from another student as to how to improve your poster? Did you decide to fix this? (5 pts) | |||
| II. Comments to others: | |||
| 3) What did you learn form other posters to help improve your poster? Did you decide to do this? (5 pts) | |||
| 4) What did you suggest to help another groups poster? (5 pts) | |||
| III. UPLOAD posters to Canvas with all corrections (Due by end of Lab) | |||
| Submit to Library to print final version for Finale if needed. | |||
| 5) Finale, Tues. March 19 | |||
| Wed & Thurs Labs | Tues & Fri Labs | ||
| 2 - 2:45 pm | Present to Visitors (20 pts) | Learn from others posters (20 pts) | |
| 2:45 - 3:30 pm | Learn from others posters (20 pts) | Present to Visitors (20 pts) |
