Analyzing Earth’s History Using Sediment Cores
Students will practice the skill of interpreting scientific data by describing and finding patterns in ocean sediment core samples that…
Using Image Data to Explore Paleoclimate
Iceberg of Antarctica Book
Inspired by Expedition 382, Iceberg Alley, Iceberg of Antarctica follows an iceberg’s formation and journey from snowfall, to ice stream…
Antarctic Log Comic – Expedition 379: Amundsen Sea
A team of 116 ship crew, scientists, technicians, and communicators took to the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica’s fastest-warming sea aboard the…
Antarctica and Neogene Global Climate Change
In this chapter you will build basic geographic and geologic knowledge of Antarctica and use geologic reasoning. In Part 11.1, you will…
A Tale of Two Teeth
This lesson is a storytelling activity—a story that has characters (including a villain), a series of mysteries (starting with unexplained…
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in Review
Since 1968, scientific ocean drilling has tapped into a considerable archive of Earth history, and in doing so has revealed…
Tahitian Sea Level Change Core (IODP 310)
The two 30cm replicas of 310-20A-22R-2 display coral sandstone and massive coral (Porites) in growth position with interbedded microbiolites (organosedimentary…
Saanich Inlet Core Model (ODP 178)
The sediment cored at Saanich Inlet off Vancouver Island, British Columbia contains evidence of catastrophic flooding events – called Jokulhlaups…
Palmer Deep Core Model (ODP 178)
This model shows seasonal layers (laminae) composed of different diatoms species that were deposited during the late Holocene and provides…