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European Geosciences Union e st. 2002 GIFT – Geosciences Information For Teachers GIFT WORKSHOP 2014 OUR CHANGING PLANET Vienna, Austria, 27-30 April 2014 ROOM 29 - GREEN LEVEL Dear Teachers, Welcome to the 12th GIFT workshop of the European Geosciences Union! This year the workshop will reunite 86 teachers from 19 different countries around the general theme “Our Changing Planet”. Numerous geological, geophysical, geochemical and geobiological data acquired over many years have documented that on geological time-­‐scales, the Earth has continuously undergone significant changes. We know that plate tectonics have widely moved continents, that the chemistry of the atmosphere has changed, that the climate of the Earth has undergone hot and cold periods (the Earth has been so cold at some points that the term “Snowball Earth” has been used). The term “natural variability” is used to refer to this continuous evolution of our planet. A new trend in variability has been progressively documented for the last 100-­‐150 years of the Earth’s history, since the industrial revolution started. Many studies have demonstrated that new factors of anthropogenic origin are becoming important in controlling the environment of the Earth’s outer shells. These outer shells, containing air, water, ice, soil, plants and animals are precisely where we live. An impressive characteristic is that changes in the environment are occurring at a high rate and reaching values unprecedented in the Earth’s history, to the point that the term “Anthropocene” has been proposed for this new era of the Earth’s history. Awareness that human activities may be responsible for irreversible changes in the Earth’s environment, has led to the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that was created in 1988 by two United Nations Organizations: the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nation Environmental Program (UNEP). In September 2013, the IPCC published the first part of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), on the “The Physical Science Basis”. In a worldwide press conference, its co-chairman Thomas Stocker announced that the IPCC has concluded that “warming in the climate system is unequivocal” and that “it is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcing together”. All model simulations of future climate changes depend crucially of the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere, and predictions vary between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C depending on the different gas emission scenarios. In conclusion, the Fifth Assessment affirms: ”Limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions”. Given the major interest for human kind, there is no doubt that these questions will be discussed worldwide, in all the media. It therefore was clear to us that teachers needed to be provided with sound scientific information in order to answer the questions that will be asked by their students. The GIFT-2014 workshop takes advantage of the presence of many IPCC lead authors at the General Assembly of EGU in Vienna. We have asked them to address you about the different aspects of climate change, in its most general form (changes in the atmosphere and surface ocean, including ocean acidification, cryosphere, information from paleoclimatic archives to quantify natural versus anthropogenic variability, carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, clouds and aerosols, evaluation of climate models to ensure projections and predictability, sea level change…). We will also ask scientists who are not IPCC lead authors to address the teachers, in their field of expertise. The GIFT-2014 workshop will include hands-on activities led by science educators illustrating changing environmental factors, such as ocean acidification, and a parallel poster session “Science in tomorrow’s classroom” open to teachers and scientists attending the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. We would like to continue to offer teachers the opportunity to attend GIFT and similar workshops, but this depends upon us being able to show our sponsors that teachers have used what they have learned at the GIFT workshops in their daily teaching, or as inspiration for new ways to teach science in their schools. Therefore, we would ask you: 1. To fill out the evaluation form as soon as possible and send them back to us. 2. To make presentations of your experiences at GIFT to a group of your teaching colleagues soon after you return. 3. To send us reports and photographs about how you have used the GIFT information in your classrooms. We also encourage you to write reports about the GIFT workshop in publications specifically intended for geoscience teachers. Very soon, a “Teachers’ Corner “ will be uploaded on our web page, where all teachers will be able to post their opinion. Information on past and future GIFT workshops is available on the EGU homepage (http://www.egu.eu/education/gift/workshops/). At this link it is possible to download brochures (.pdf) of the workshops and the illustrated presentations given at the GIFT workshops for the last 8 years. Since 2009, web-TV presentations were also included, which may be freely used in your classrooms. We hope you enjoy the workshop and your stay in Vienna! Carlo Laj On behalf of the Committee on Education of EGU Acknowledgements The GIFT-2014 workshop has been organized by the Committee on Education of the European Geosciences Union. EGU has supported the major share of the expenses, but the workshop has also benefited of the generous help of: The European Space Agency Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig, Germany National Science Foundation William S. Goree Award 2GEnterprises And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this educational workshop and their institutions. European Geosciences Union Committee on Education CHAIR Carlo Laj Ecole Normale Supérieure Département de Géosciences Francesca Cifelli 24 rue Lhomond Dipartimento di Scienze 75231 Paris Cedx 5, France Università degli Studi Roma TRE [email protected] Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1 & Committee on Education 00146 Roma, Italy European Geosciences Union [email protected] [email protected] Francesca Funiciello MEMBERS Dipartimento di Scienze Eve Arnold Università degli Studi Roma TRE Department of Geological Sciences Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1 Stockholm University 00146 Roma, Italy S106 91 Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] [email protected] Stephen A. Macko Jean-Luc Berenguer Department of Environmental Sciences Centre International de Valbonne University of Virginia BP 97 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis cedex, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA France [email protected] [email protected] Phil Smith Friedrich Barnikel Teacher Scientist Network (TSN) Fachkoordinator für Geographie John Innes Centre Landeshauptstadt München , Colney Lane Germany Norwich, NR4 7UH Great Britain [email protected] [email protected] Anita Bokwa Annegret Schwarz Jagiellonian University Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer, Institute of Geography and Spatial Hospitalgasse 6, Management 55543 Bad Kreuznach, 7 Gronostajowa St. Germany PL-30-387 Cracow, Poland [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Angelo Camerlenghi Herbert Summesberger Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Natural History Museum Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche 1010 Wien, Burgring 7 Geofisica Sperimentale OGS Austria Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/C herbert.summesberger@ nhm-wien.ac.at 34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy [email protected] European Geosciences Union Committee on Education Eve Arnold Anita Bokwa Angelo Camerlenghi Carlo Laj Friedrich Barnikel Annegret Schwarz Steve Macko Francesca Cifelli Francesca Funiciello Jean-Luc Berenguer Phil Smith Herbert Summesberger Program European Geosciences Union – General Assembly GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS (GIFT) WORKSHOP Austria Center Vienna, 27-30 April 2014 ‘Our changing planet’ Sunday April 27, 2014 16:30 - 18:30 GUIDED TOUR OF THE VIENNA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY and ice breaker reception Herbert Summesberger and Mathias Harzhauser Vienna Museum of Natural History Monday April 28, 2014 08:30 - 08:45 WELCOME! Günter Bloeschl President of EGU PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WORKSHOP Carlo Laj EGU Committee on Education Chairperson: Carlo Laj 08:45 - 09:20 IPCC FIFTH ASSESSMENT RELEASED – CLIMATE CHANGE 2013: THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE BASIS Thomas Stocker Co-Chair IPCC Working Group I University of Bern, Switzerland 09:20 - 10:00 CLIMATE INFORMATION FROM ICE CORES (PART 1) Thomas Blunier Center for Ice and Climate University of Copenhagen, Denmark 10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK Chairperson: Phil Smith 10:30 – 11:15 CLIMATE INFORMATION FROM ICE CORES (PART 2) Valérie Masson-Delmotte Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette, France 11:15 - 11:30 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE POSTER SESSION EOS02 Eve Arnold Stockholm University, Sweden 11:30 - 12:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS 12:00 – 14:00 LUNCH (SANDWICHES) Chairperson: Francesca Cifelli 14:00 -18:00 HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Sally Soria-Dengg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany Francesca Ugolini Institute of Biometeorology-CNR Firenze, Italy Tuesday April 29, 2014 Chairperson: Stephen Macko 08:30 - 09:15 SPACE FOR CLIMATE: OVERVIEW OF ESA EARTH OBSERVATION MISSIONS
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