• About AMIDST
• Digital story telling
• Geoscience content
• Diversity

• About the school
• The Joy team
• Teachers workshop
• Field trip
• Class practicum
• Student products

• About the schools
• The Nome team
• Teachers workshop
• Field trip
• Class practicum
• Student products

• Assessment
• Publications
• Photo gallery
• External links

• Partners
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Geoscience Content

Climate Change and Alaska

The impact of global climate change can be felt by all. However, the changes in Alaska’s landscape are so pronounced, and are occurring so rapidly, that residents can witness them in a single lifetime and quantify them based on personal experiences. These personal experiences can be shared to serve as a foundation for inquiry-based learning of geoscience concepts and for understanding processes operating in the Earth system.

Geoscience Contents Addressed in the Project

Participants involved with the AMIDST project learn geoscience content in the broad topical areas of Earth system studies, climate change, carbon cycle, land surface composition and change, landscape ecology, remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS), global positioning system (GPS), field techniques.

They also learn about geoscience themes particularly relevant to their immediate surrounding. For example participants from interior Alaska learn about permafrost and forest fires.
Participants from Nome learn about changing sea ice patterns, increased methane emission from Arctic lakes and degrading permafrost, and all about gold in the Nome area.