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The CO2 Shuffle: Roles of the Ocean & Atmosphere in Earth’s Carbon Cycle – Feb 2, 2008
Presentation by Charles “Chip” Miller, Deputy Principle Investigator of the Ocean Carbon Observatory (OCO), Jet Propulsion Laboratory & California Institute of Technology (PDF, 1.71 MB)
Background Information
- Talking about pH (.doc) (Word, 26 KB)
- The pH scale (.xls) (XLS, 20 KB)
- Acidity and Alkalinity, Carbon Dioxide and Carbonate Cycles from Gross, M.G., Oceanography: A View of Earth, 6th ed., Prentice Hall, 1993, p85-87
- Dissolved Gases, Acid-Base Balance from Garrison, T., Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science, 4th ed., Brooks/Cole Thomas Learning, 2002, p178-182
- Carbon Dioxide Extends Its Harmful Reach to Oceans by Andrew Revkin, New York Times, July 20, 2004
- Climate Change Threatens Coral Reefs - OCEANSP@CE, Issue 127, Monday, April 4, 1999 (PDF, 68 KB)
- Marine Organisms Threatened By Increasingly Acidic Ocean from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute News Release, Sept 29, 2005
- Oceanography: Sick Seas - Nature News Feature, Nature 442, August 31, 2006, p978-980
- Some Like It Hot by W.Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American, Dec 1995, p28-29 (PDF, 102 KB)
- The Acid Ocean – the Other Problem with CO2 Emission - Real Climate: Climate science from climate scientists, 2 July 2005
- The Dangers of Ocean Acidification by Scott C. Doney, Scientific American, Mar 2006, p58-65
Lesson plans & Activities
- Litmus Paper – Advanced Organizer (Acid and Base Test) (.doc) (Word, 26 KB)
- pH paper – pH Lesson Plan
- Acids & Bases (PDF)
- Acid Rain and the Greenhouse Effect (Fluid Earth, Unit 4, Topic 6) (PDF, 5.64 MB)
- “I’m Melting!!” Lesson Plan (.doc) (Word, 41 KB)
- “I’m Melting!!” Datasheet Version 1 & 2 (.xls) (XLS, 25 KB)
- Carbon Dioxide, Coral Reefs, and Climate Change – Background Information and “Effects of CO2 on Coral Reefs” Lesson Plan
- What IS an Ecological Footprint? (1a and 2a are the same)
- CO2 Calculation for California (from “Confronting Climate Change in California Curriculum Guide”, Activity 2, Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Carbon & Ecological Impact Calculators (.doc) (Word, 35 KB)
Resources
Resource Suggestions from Dr. Miller:
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Ocean Iron Fertilization – Moving Forward in a Sea of Uncertainty - Buesseler, KO, SC Doney, DM Karl, PW Boyd, K Caldeira, F Chai, KH Coale, HJW de Baar, PG Falkowski, KS Johnson, RS Lampitt, AF Michaels, SWA Naqvi, V Smetacek, S Takeda, AJ Watson, Science, v 319, 11 Jan 2008, p 162.
- The Crucial Measurement by Amanda Haag, Nature, v 450, 6 Dec 2007, p785-787.
- CO2 Arithmetic by Wallace S. Broecker, Science, v 315, 9 March 2007, p1371.
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