14 participants from 10 states representing 13 Minority Serving Institutions. 15 labs and hands-on activities to transfer ice core and climate change concepts to classrooms. 10 ice core science community speakers/researchers sharing their expertise and passion. 2 field trips – 1 to the Coast and 1 to Elliott Glacier in the Columbia River Valley.
ACTIVITY/LAB | PRESENTER | LINK |
Activity: Polar Opposites | Bill | Polar Opposites: To the Ends of the Earth Activity Polar Opposites ppt Polar Opposites Bill Keynote-2021 |
Welcome/Overview of workshop | Louise & Ed | Welcome from IDP |
Life Cores – introduce selves and share | Rus | Life Cores Activity |
Activity: Engineering Design Challenge | Bill | Engineering Design Activity |
Chasing Ice Video | Rus | Video clip (5 minute version of ice calving Trailer |
Reflections: Great Expectations | Bill |
ACTIVITY/LAB | PRESENTER | LINK |
Intro Notebooks – covers and quote | Bill | Notebook intro slide |
Activity: The Only Direction is North – Discovering Antarctica through Maps | Rus | Only Direction is North Activity Formal powerpoint of activity (not used) |
Activity: Direct Measurement – Tree Rings and Ice Cores | Bill | Ice Cores Direct Measurement Activity Presentation Key format PowerPoint |
Activity: CO2 Record (direct measurement) | Bill | Activity CO2 Set-up Video Presentation Key format PowerPoint Outside links NOAA Mauna Loa CO2 real time |
Field Trip to Coast (1/2 day) -geological deposits; warmer climates; earthquakes | Coast Field trip guide | |
Activity: Life in an Acid Bath: ocean acidification – shell/knife/ tape | Bill | Activity (pp 211-218) |
ACTIVITY/LAB | PRESENTER | LINK |
Activity: Developing Proxy Models & Ice Balloons | Bill | Decoding Ice Core Proxy Models Activity Video of set up Presentation Key |
ACTIVITY: Polar Detectives (build ice core), Virtual Field Lab (Osterberg) for data and graphing and intro VFLs #1&2 | Bill and Rus | Bill and Rus Virtual Field Labs Ice drilling education main page Ice drilling virtual field trip main page US Ice Drilling YouTube page Erich Osterberg series Meredith Kelly series World premier VFL Polar Detectives Activity (lab using same sulphur data as Osterberg VFL) |
Group 1a and 1b – Gas Labs (45 min) + tour of lab (3-4 people) | Christo & Ben (1a) and Ed Brook (1b) | Ice Cores as a Climate Archive by Christo Buizert presentation Engineering an Ice Core presentation by Jay Johnson Powerpoint |
Group 2 ACTIVITY: Isotope/Nature vs. Science/7people | Rus and Bill | Isotopes Activity Nature vs Science |
Drilling Ice Cores (how and where) – Drilling in Greenland – How much climate time? Drilling in Antarctica, how much climate time? How does drilling take place? | Jay Johnson & Christo | Engineering: an Ice Core Presentation by Jay Johnson Powerpoint |
(Working Lunch talks) Intro to Ice Core Science -(Greenland & Antarctic ice sheets – Introduction to Ice Sheets, Ice Core Records and Ice Age Cycles. Objectives: Ice sheets in Greenland/Antarctica (size, scope, age). What data have we pulled from ice cores in general (climate can change in as little as a decade; CO2, temp, aerosols, climate cycles, CO2 norms?) Q & A | Jay & Christo | Scenarios Drills Foro 400 Drill Foro 1650 Drill Foro 3000 Drill IDDO Hand Auger Stampfli Drill SPICE Core WAIS Divide Project Science & Engineering Practices |
Group 2a: Gas Labs; 2b: Ice core gas lab (45 min) Group 2b: Gas Labs; 2a: Ice core gas lab (45 min) | Ed Brook + post docs and lab techs | |
Group 1 ACTIVITY: Isotope/ Nature vs. Science | Rus and Bill | Isotopes Activity Nature vs Science |
Modeling past and future climates. | Andreas Schmittner | Modeling past and future climates PDF Carbon Brief Blog Schmittner’s Climate textbook Collection of resources for educators |
Whole group to process data points from Ed’s gas labs | Ed | Plan of Action |
Summarizer – I used to think … | Rus |
ACTIVITY/LAB | PRESENTER | LINK |
Activity: Set up Land Ice Sea Ice -How Does Melting Ice Affect Sea Level? | Bill | Land Ice/Sea Ice Activity Land Ice/Sea Ice ppt |
Activity: Slip Sliding Away (Glacier Dynamics) | Bill | Slip Sliding Away Activity Slip Sliding Away ppt Glacier Goo Recipe-Bill making big batch |
Glacial Dynamics – key ideas; current changes in Greenland and Antarctica – Thwaites + Q&A | Erin Pettit | Docs for activity |
Activity: Revisit Land Ice Sea Ice | Bill | |
Activity: Glacier Ice – Plan of Action | Rus | Plan of Action Directions Scott at Alaska Glacial Ice www.alaskaglacialice.com scott@alaskaglacialice.com |
Working Lunch – Drill Models | Drilling Display Model Activity | |
Activity: Thermohaline Circulation demos | Bill | Thermohaline activity |
Ocean/Ice Interactions: Thermohaline circulation -interaction between ice and thermohaline circulation – changes in ice in the future and how it may affect thermohaline – fresh water input – DEMO | Brodie Pearson | Thermohaline Circulation and Ice Sheets- presentation |
Vans to MGR – Similarities and differences between ice core science and sediment core science | ||
Break into two groups – Tour – Activity | Val Stanley, Joe Stoner, Maureen (Mo)Walczak, Maziet Cheseby, and Cara Fritz – EO | Sediment resources from ANDRILL ELF–book of hands-on activities for climate change concepts Antarctica’s Climate Secrets-book of sediment core hands-on activities |
Refection: I used to think … but now I know … | ||
Celebration Dinner | School of Ice 2021 Celebration video |
ACTIVITY/LAB | PRESENTER | LINK |
Intro. Virtual Field Lab – Meredith Kelly | Bill | |
Field Trip and Lunch – Road Trip -Mt. Hood – and Elliott Glacier -Columbia River Gorge | Ed | Field Trip Packet |