Education

Browse community-built educational content here!

Education for Grade School Students

These tools teach mathematical concepts for glaciology and ice sheet science aimed at K-12 students.

 

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Visualizing Glacier/Ocean Changes

A simple 1-D glacier model to teach students about glacier/ocean changes.

Education for Graduate Students

These tools teach mathematical concepts for glaciology and ice sheet science.

 

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Regression on Ice

Code demonstrations with visualizations of some basic regression / machine learning concepts for glaciology.

 

 

Educational Videos

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The EGU-sponsored PROTECT Project (Projecting Sea Level Rise: From Ice Sheets to Local Implications) aims to assess and project changes in the land-based cryosphere, with fully quantified uncertainties, in order to produce robust global, regional and local projections of SLR on a range of timescales. The project also provides educational content and videos that are viewable on YouTube and available for download on Zenodo (see links below)

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Episode 1: Sea level science – how can we predict sea level rise in the future?

Download video at the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12177316
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Episode 2: Antarctica, a game changer for sea level rise

Download video at the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12179209
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Episode 3: Vanishing glaciers: a cause of sea-level rise and a threat to water supply

Download video at the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13383551
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Episode 4: Exploring the Vulnerability of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Download video at the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11060158

 

VESL visualization tools

These striking visualizations, hosted on NASA JPL's Virtual Earth System Laboratory (VESL), use the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) package.

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Greenland Basal Friction simulation

Enables users to explore the effect of friction at Greenland's ice-bedrock interface.
ISSM logo, vesl.jpl.nasa.gov

Greenland Geothermal Heat Flux simulation

Enables users to explore Greenland ice sheet's sensitivity to geothermal heat flux at the ice-bedrock interface.
ISSM logo, vesl.jpl.nasa.gov

Sea Level Rise simulation

Presents ISSM simulations of sea-level rise from the present day to 500 years into the future, as the Twaites Glacier retreats inland.

Links

Here are additional resources available to bring the science to others:

 
VR Glaciers and Glaciated Landscapes - Hosted by Dr. Des McDougall, this program provides an immersive virtual field environment for visitors to explore the field, see glacial landforms up close, and gain valuable experience working in the field from their desktops.
EricPitman.jpg Eric Pitman Workshop in Computational Science--hosted by UB CCR since 1998.
Snow on Ice: "Scientists are Superheroes"
Ice Future Research Group - Datasets and Products
Greenland-melt NSIDC's Greenland Today
Greenland-melt NSIDC's Arctic Sea Ice News
Greenland-melt Ice Flow Games
PROTECT Logo PROTECT: Save the glaciers! game PROTECT: Expedition Sea Level game

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