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Decoding Ice Cores–Isotopic Analysis–How warm was the Earth in the past?

Date 5th Jan by admin

DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY PREVIEW: In this lab we will use 5-pennies to model water molecules sampled from each of 11 different “ice core layers” dating from the present...
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Decoding Ice Cores–Atmospheric Analysis–How much Carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere in the past?

Date 5th Jan by admin

DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY PREVIEW Ice cores provide climate scientists with evidence of past CO2 levels. Climate scientists can directly measure past atmospheric gases by analyzing the air bubbles...
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Subglacial Lakes

Date 18th Aug by admin

Download Full Activity (To View correctly, open with Google Docs.) Preview Students observe a subglacial lake model and measure changes in temperature, salinity and sea level rise...
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Ice Core Lab-Maloney

Date 20th Aug by admin

DOWNLOAD ICE CORE LAB-MALONEY DOWNLOAD LAB EXCEL SHEET SUPPORT RESOURCE DOWNLOAD Adaptation (non-frozen ice core model) A proxy is a substitute for an actual measurement. CO2 data...
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Located at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 603-646-8126.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. PLR-1327315 to Dartmouth, and sub awards to University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin and Colorado School of Mines which support the work of the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.