EI LIVE K12: Responses to the Winter/Spring 2022 Conference
We are happy to announce the return of our popular EI LIVE K12 series and it will continue to provide Educational content From January to May 2022, for K12 students, educators and parents. The series will invite experts from the Columbia Climate School for a 45-minute live broadcast. They will share all aspects of their work through lectures and interactive activities. We look forward to offering 10 exciting half-month conferences starting on January 13th. The details are as follows. We hope to see you in the upcoming lecture.
In the winter/spring of 2022, the conference will be held between 4:00-5:00 pm EST, once every half month. Most meetings will be held on Wednesday afternoon, with a few exceptions, indicated by asterisks.
All meetings are free, but each event requires pre-registration. The RSVP link and the schedule from January to May are as follows. Before the show starts, we will send a link to the Zoom webinar to all registered participants.All meetings will be recorded and hosted in EI LIVE K12 page For easy access.
Parents/students: Each class has a specific age range, so please be aware of this.
Educators: We suggest adjusting the courses that correspond to the age group you teach, and if we can, we will share other reading materials and resources.
Winter/Spring 2022 Courses
Use tools to explore polar changes*
Thursday, January 13th 4:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern Time*
Speaker: Margie Turrin, Education Field Project Director, Laurel Zaima, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Education and Outreach Coordinator
Target audience: Grades 6-12
The polar regions are extremely dynamic, and the ice is always changing and flowing with changes in forces such as climate change. The focus of this conference is to provide students with easy-to-use and user-friendly remote sensing tools that enable them to explore, observe, and make hypotheses about our changing world.
Coral Chemistry and Paleohydrology*
Thursday, January 27, 4:00 – 4:45 PM Eastern Time*
Speaker: Brad Linsley, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Dougherty Earth Observatory
Target audience: Grades 9-12 (and undergraduates)
In this meeting, we will discuss how to use coral skeleton barium concentration and oxygen isotope ratio to reconstruct the recent monthly changes in river flow and hydrology in Panama since the early 1700s. Then, we will assess the impact of paleohydrological results on understanding the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on the drought cycle in Central America and the long-term management of the Panama Canal.
Solve the mystery of past annual rings and archaeology
Wednesday, February 9, 4:00 – 4:45 PM Eastern Time
Speaker: Cari Leland, Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Target audience: Grade 3-5
Did you know that we can learn about the history of wood materials and cultural relics by studying tree rings? In this lecture, students will explore how scientists study tree rings from historical structures to uncover the mysteries of the past.
Climate Change Dialogue: Interpreting ideas and promoting participation
Wednesday, February 23, 4:00 – 4:45 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Joshua DeVincenzo, Senior Teaching Designer, National Disaster Preparedness Center
Target audience: 8-12 grades
This interactive course will allow students to understand the various views that people hold on the subject of climate change. Students will be given a toolkit of communication strategies to engage in difficult conversations about climate change with people who may or may not agree with them. At the end of the course, students will practice solving climate skepticism and gain the skills to turn conversations into learning opportunities.
What is the Little Ice Age and why should we care?
Wednesday, March 9th, US Eastern Time, 4:00 – 4:45 pm
Speaker: Mike Kaplan, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Dougherty Earth Observatory
Target audience: Grades 9-12
Before the 20th century, from about 1400 AD to 1900 AD, glaciers were larger and the climate was much colder than it is now. This period is known as the Little Ice Age in Europe and North America, and studying it may help us understand current climate change.
From river to coral reef: use the coral time machine to understand the coast
Wednesday, March 23, 4:00 – 4:45 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Logan Brenner, Assistant Professor, Barnard College
Target audience: Grades 6-12
Corals may look like rocks, but they are living animals that can grow their own stone skeletons. In this section, we will explore how the chemical composition of this hard bone tells us the coastal conditions under which corals grow. We will focus on how corals take us back in time and tell us the history of nearby rivers.
Plan a mission to Bingmoon
Wednesday, April 6, 4:00 – 4:45 PM Eastern Time
Speaker: Christine McCarthy, Associate Research Professor of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Target audience: Grades 3-8
So, are you considering traveling to the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn? In this meeting, you will learn what to consider when turning your concept into a mission. In particular, we will determine the threats and complications you may encounter on the moon with a cold, uninhabitable ice crust.
Can you overcome the disaster?Use uncertain predictions to develop your national disaster plan
Wednesday, April 20th, 4:00 – 4:45 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Dan Osgood, Chief Scientist of the Financial Tools Department of the International Institute of Climate and Society
Target audience: Grades 6-12
If the government knows that a disaster is imminent, they can take action to prepare for it, such as a national drought. Unfortunately, the prediction of disasters is an uncertain probability. If you take too aggressive action on the forecast, you may spend your money in vain to prepare for a drought that will not happen in the forecast. If you are too tentative, you may not be able to act as predicted when a drought does occur. In the real world, leaders must balance every situation they face, knowing that if you need more time to prepare, you are more likely to make mistakes. In this course, you will use the tools that real government leaders around the world are using to make difficult choices between inaction and in vain.
How do we know the temperature of the earth?
Wednesday, May 4, 4:00 – 4:45 PM Eastern Time
Speaker: Nathan Lenssen, PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Target audience: Grades 9-12 (and undergraduates)
In the past 150 years, human emissions of greenhouse gases have caused global temperatures to rise, and the past seven years have been the hottest seven years on record. Although it is important to understand the global average temperature, it is not easy to calculate, especially more than 100 years ago. In this meeting, we will explore the history of global average temperature calculations, discuss how scientists currently calculate changes in the earth’s temperature, show the credibility of these global temperature calculations, and discuss various data sources used for calculation and verification over the past 150 years Temperature record.
Natural history of the Hudson River
Wednesday, May 18th, 4:00 – 4:45 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Frank Nitsche, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Research Scientist
Target audience: Grades 9-12
During this conference, we will explore how nature affects human use of estuaries and how humans shape nature in the context of the Hudson River. Learn about the development of the Hudson River since the Ice Age, how its location and nature promoted European settlements along the river, and how humans changed the river for further development.
