THE HORIZONS PROJECT
@ PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY:
COLLABORATIVE TEACHER-STUDENT-
FACULTY ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
Mt. Hood
Partners in Science Conference
San Diego, CA
January 12, 2001

Rosa Hemphill
Oregon Episcopal School
Portland, Oregon
hemphill@teleport.com

Dr. Linda George
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
h61@pdx.edu

Online Atmospheric and Climate Research and Related Educational Web Sites:

Horizons Resources:

http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/horizons/ Portland State University Horizons Project Site, with resources in science education, atmospheric research and public policy.
http://web.pdx.edu/~hgdj/HORIZONSa.html Horizons Climate Web Resources, by Dr. Dan Johnson.

http://web.pdx.edu/~hgdj/HClim1.html A climate information WWW activity.
http://web.pdx.edu/~hgdj/HClim2.html A WWW activity on global warming.
http://web.pdx.edu/~hgdj/HClim3.html A WWW activity on El Niño and La Niña.

http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/horizons/education/inquiry.html Horizons-related inquiry project suggestions for teachers to use in their classrooms.
Examples Data Campaign Web Data and Resource Pages written by teachers for the 2000 Fall Data Campaign:

http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/horizons/education/mc/mc2000/visibility/index.html Cloud Visibility Study 2000.
http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/horizons/education/mc/mc2000/nox_study/index.html NOx Research Resources 2000.
http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/horizons/education/mc/mc2000/Emissions/index.html 2000 Auto Emissions Study.
http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/horizons/education/mc/mc2000/nrg_user/other/Project%20Ideas.htm Project Ideas from the Residential Energy Use Study 2000.

Atmospheric Resources from other sites:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ National Climatic Data Center with archived climate data.
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/science/air.html NASA's Earth Science Themes: Atmospheric Chemistry.
http://www.gac.sr.unh.edu/ University of New Hampshire Global Atmospheric Research Group resource page.
http://www.cac.yorku.ca/intro.html An Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry from York University.
http://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/ PMEL Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Change homepage.
http://www.enviroyellowpages.com/chemicals/globalwarming2.html The Chemistry of Atmospheric Pollutants.
http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/Atmospheric/intro.html Research in Atmospheric Chemistry at Leeds.
http://www.shodor.org/cas/outline.html A Shodor online class on atmospheric chemistry. An excellent resource.
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/ATM_CHEM/ac_outline.html A NASA page on atmospheric chemistry.
http://www.canby.com/hemphill/airquality.htm A 1999 set of URL resources on Air Quality.

Science Curricular and Inquiry Resources:

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/6d.html National Science Education Inquiry Standards.
http://www.fno.org/sept96/questions.html "Framing Essential Questions," From Now On, 1996.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/workshops/lab_activities.html How to Make Lab Activities More Open Ended.
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/esi/1998/r/el-nino/resource.htm Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute Teacher Resource page on El Niño.

R. Hemphill
Handout for Murdoch Partners in Science presentation
1/12/2001, San Diego, CA.