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Chapter 1 { Digital Earth Watch Contents } Of our five senses, sight provides near-instantaneous information over a large range of distances and space. So it is no coincidence that people use a plethora of images to convey a rich variety of data: photographs, maps, drawings, paintings, movies, text documents, signs, etc. With the inventions […]

The Digital Earth Watch (DEW) project grew from a NASA grant project titled Measuring Vegetation Health. Its goal was to teach about how monitoring the health of vegetation can be done at various scales: from individual plants to large scale ecosystems. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Challenges 1. Digital Image Basics 1.1 How Is Light […]

{ To Index of GSS Books } Self-Organizing Systems: A Unifying Paradigm for Science Education  Richard Golden and Cary Sneider April, 2013 Nature, in the systems view, is a sphere of complex and delicate organization. Systems communicate with systems and form supersystems. Strands of order appear and out of increasingly complex levels of organization novel properties […]

{ All GSS Books } Implications for Achieving Science Literacy by Dr. Cary I. Sneider, Vice President for ProgramsMuseum of Science, Science Park, Boston, MA 02114-1099 Presented at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2000, IEEE) Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 24-28, 2000. In the post-Sputnik era the goal of science education in the United […]

{ All GSS Books } Frequently Asked Questions How do I get and implement GSS? Are there PDF versions of the GSS books that are better for printing?    Is GSS up to date/How does GSS stay up to date? Answers:  If I have suggestions for improvement, find errors, or notice issues (links that don’t […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 See non-chronological resources { Population Growth Contents } 2024-10-04. These Are Boom Times for ‘Degrowth’. By Ephrat Livni, The New York Times. Excerpt: There’s long been one mantra in mainstream economics: Growth is good. Gross domestic product — the monetary value of a country’s goods and services — is used […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { Population Growth Contents } 2022-07-01. For scientists, Roe’s end raises concerns about personal safety and professional choices. [https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-roe-s-end-raises-concerns-about-personal-safety-and-professional-choices] By Katie Langin, Science Magazine. Excerpt: When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on 24 June, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion and handing decisions about abortion access to state legislators, the […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See non-chronological resources { Population Growth Contents } 2025-02-27. Deep Groundwater Might Be a Sustainable Solution to the Water Crisis. By Claudia Bertoni, Fridtjov Ruden, Elizabeth Quiroga Jordan and Helene Ruden, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Groundwater supplies 50% of the world’s drinking water and 25% of the water used globally in agriculture. …in arid regions of Africa, the Middle […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 See non-chronological resources { Population Growth Contents } 2024-04-02. Population tipping point could arrive by 2030. [https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-point-could-arrive-2030] By TYLER SANTORA, Science. Excerpt: Two point one: That’s how many children everyone able to give birth must have to keep the human population from beginning to fall. Demographers have long expected the […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Population Growth Contents } 2024-01-05. Protecting and connecting landscapes stabilizes populations of the Endangered savannah elephant. [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk2896] By RYAN M. HUANG , CELESTÉ MARÉ, ROBERT A. R. GULDEMOND , STUART L. PIMM, AND RUDI J. VAN AARDEA, Science. Excerpt: African savannahs cover …almost half of the continent, of which 10% is protected (1) and …16% sustain globally Endangered savannah elephants […]