African Dust Links

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

African Dust Storms, in AIRS Near-Real Time, and A-Train Imagery
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/AIRS/additional/gallery/african-dust-storms

NOAA - OSEI African Dust 2010 Index
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust

Microbes Hitch Ride on African Dust (11/5/2003)
http://www.archive.org/details/CIL-10008

NASA - African dust leads to large toxic algal bloom
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp_docs/African_Dust.pdf

USGS - African Dust Carries Microbes Across the Ocean:
Are They Affecting Human and Ecosystem Health?
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/ofr-2003-028.pdf

NASA - Educational Publications
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/for_educators/educational_publications.php

USGS - Coral Mortality and African Dust Photo Galleryhttp://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/gallery.html

USGS - Coral Mortality and African Dust - SeaWIFS and NOAA Satellite Imagery
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/satellite.html

NRL - Dust Storm in Sahara, February 3-4, 1999 and Transport to N. Atlantic and South America
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol/Case_studies/19990203_sahara/19990203_sahara.html

What's in the wind?
Scientists say dust blowing from Africa may be bringing disease to the Caribbean and United States.
By David Ballingrud © St. Petersburg Times, published September 5, 2000
http://www.sptimes.com/News/090500/Worldandnation/What_s_in_the_wind.shtml

 

Online and Classroom Resources

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/

Hurricane Central
A problem-based learning (PBL) module about Hurricanes.
http://cas.hamptonu.edu/outreach/sos/hurricaneModule/sScenarios.html


Download NASA World Wind

NASA Summer of Innovation Web Site
http://www.nasa.gov/soi

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

Journey to the Stars
Science @ NASA: June 7, 2010
Kids love to make things explode in science class. How about an entire star?
Thanks to NASA, supernovas will soon be going off in classrooms around the country—no safety glasses required. It's done via a DVD called Journey to the Stars. Teachers can request a free copy along with supporting lesson plans and activity sheets at journeytothestars.org.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/07jun_journeytothestars/

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