Presentations and Handouts

Using NASA’s Giovanni System to Detect and Monitor Saharan Dust Outbreaks (PPTX, 6 MB)
by: James G. Acker

Teaching Calculus with NASA via PBL Techniques (ZIP File, 205 MB)
by: Gloria Faus

Saharan Dust Events in the Tropical Western Atlantic (PPT, 7MB)
by: Roy Armstrong

The Impact of Transport on the Physico-Chemical Properties of Caribbean Aerosols during RICO: African Dust and Pollution from North America (PPTX, 10 MB)
by: Olga L. Mayol-Bracero

What is at the core of my work with:
Clouds + Aerosols + Radiation, Remote Sensing & Climate? (PPT, 3.5 MB)
by: Anthony B. Davis

Additional Download for Anthony Davis' Presentation:
MISR_Florida_Color_3sec.mov (Quicktime Movie, 2.6 MB)

Resources

Download NASA World Wind

Climate Change Data-Rich Tutorials for Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/stem/professionaldevelopment/

Google Earth
Download Google Earth
Explore Google Earth on the Web with Earth View in Google Maps

WeatherWise
also known as just WXWISE
http://itg1.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/

NOAA Visualization Site
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/

Livebinders - a way for participants to have access to all the pages
http://livebinders.com/create/bookmark?type=bookmark

Science Modules
This website allows teachers to design their own projects and collaborate with other teachers.
http://wise.berkeley.edu/

GeoMapApp
This is a great ocean application.
 http://www.geomapapp.org/

Virtual Ocean
This add on is a great source of visualization of the world's oceans.  You need to install world wind first.
http://www.virtualocean.org

Embedding YouTube Videos in PPTs
Learn how to download YouTube videos to use in your PPTs.  A great teaching tool.
For directions go to:  http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/howto_dnload_Utube_videos.html

Links for Photometers

General Information and several useful links
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/Aerosols_home_page.htm

Blue Sky
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/sky_colors.htm

Sun Distance, Air Mass Calculation and Solar Elevation Angle (from the ground up not Zenith down)
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/sol_calc.htm

Pressure Conversion
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/Aerosols/sol_calc.htm

Time Conversion and other neat information!
http://www.uprm.edu/bio-optics/weather.html  - We will need this one
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ - broad set of information
http://www.accuweather.com/us/pr/lajas/00667/city-weather-forecast.asp - predicted weather

AERONET – FOR DATA ACCESS
http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/bamgomas_maps_index

a specific link to our place… 
http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/type_one_station_opera_v2_new?site=La_Parguera&nachal=0&level=2&
year=18&month=5&day=17&aero_water=0&if_day=0&if_err=0&year_or_month=0

Dust vs. Pollution from Africa
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44348

Links to Aerosol Sites
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~dbrooks/globe/aerosol_links.htm


African Dust, Coral Reefs and Human Health

Did you know that contaminant-ridden dust from Africa may be harming coral reefs in the Caribbean? Scientists at the USGS are examining the air in Africa and across the Atlantic in the Caribbean to determine what kinds of nutrients, microbes, and contaminants are traveling across the ocean. Although African dust has been carried out of the Sahara and into the Americas for hundreds of thousands of years, in the last 40 years the dust has become more toxic, due to the increased combustion of biomass and fossil fuels, the burning of garbage and plastics, and the use of pesticides. These toxic contaminants may produce a variety of adverse effects on coral reefs and possibly on human health, as well.

For more information, visit http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/, or contact ginger_garrison@usgs.gov or (727) 803-8747