Category: A New World View

Staying current for Chapter 4 { A New World View Contents } 2022-04-29. A Lidar’s-Eye View of How Forests Are Faring. By Van R. Kane,  Liz Van Wagtendonk and  Andrew Brenner, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Success in Yosemite is driving the wider use of lidar surveys to support forest health and wildfire resilience, study wildlife habitats, and monitor water resources. […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { A New World View Contents } 2015-12-10. The northern spotted owl is in danger again. And this time it’s from another owl. By Darryl Fears, the Washington Post. For GSS A New World View chapter 3. Excerpt: …Across that gorgeous emerald range, federally protected northern spotted owls and invasive barred […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 { A New World View Contents } To: Non-chronological resources…. 2024-02-15. Seeking clear skies and quiet, astronomers put telescopes on U.S. Moon lander. [https://www.science.org/content/article/seeking-clear-skies-and-quiet-astronomers-put-telescopes-u-s-moon-lander] By DANIEL CLERY, Science. Excerpt: Small scopes on IM-1 mission would be first optical and radio observatories on the lunar surface. …Astronomers have long eyed the […]

Articles from 2005–present 2023-08-18. Why—and How to—Engage Artists in Science. [https://eos.org/opinions/why-and-how-to-engage-artists-in-science] By Kimberly Blaeser, Dwight Owens, Sarah Zhou Rosengard, Kathryn Semmens and Mika Tosca, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Breaking down the artificial barriers between science and art can lead to collaborations, broaden the understanding of problems facing communities, and grow engagement to explore solutions…. 2022-07-21. Nobel Recognition for the Roles of Complexity […]

Chapter 6 { A New World View Contents } This final chapter asks you to apply the concept of a sustainable world to the ecosystems that you have been studying—aquatic ecosystems in a bottle, old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, and tropical rainforests. You will be asked to think about the major themes of […]

{ A New World View Contents } { All GSS Books } Adapted from USGS Earthshots – http://www.usgs.gov/Earthshots Satellite images used in this Investigation show a portion of the state of Rondônia, Brazil, in which tropical deforestation has occurred in the Amazon rainforest.  In the Investigation, Measuring Old Growth Forest Loss (Chapter 3) you determined quantitatively […]

Chapter 5 { A New World View Contents } When thinking of the world as interwoven systems it’s easy to understand that places really remote from us can have rather direct effects on our daily lives. Most people in the United States don’t think of ecology in Brazil, New Guinea, or Australia as affecting them […]

Chapter 4 { A New World View Contents } The U.S. Change Global Research Program An important aspect of our new world view is that everything is connected to everything else.  Changes in forest ecosystems affect rivers and streams, as well as the atmosphere and climate.  Therefore, it is important for scientists who research Earth […]

Chapter 3 { A New World View Contents } The historical summary in the previous chapter may seem remote and not our doing. It happened a long time ago, and there isn’t anything we can do about it. But as you’ll see in this chapter, people continue to make decisions about whether or not to […]

{ A New World View Contents } { All GSS Books } As you’ve seen, people’s perception of trees have changed over the past 200 years.  The first white settlers saw the forests as barriers to travel; then as sources of building materials and personal wealth.  More recently, some have recognized the special role that […]