Alberto Troccoli

Alberto Troccoli

December 19, 2019 at 1:47 pm #10799

The C3S Climate & Energy Education Demonstrator is now live! Access the tool here: https://c3s-edu.wemcouncil.org and find out more on the project page:  https://www.wemcouncil.org/wp/projects/c3s-climate-and-energy-education-demonstrator/

Alberto Troccoli

November 15, 2019 at 1:49 pm #10405

COP25 has moved to Madrid, Spain. See https://unfccc.int/cop25 for more details.

Alberto Troccoli

November 11, 2019 at 11:55 am #10318

The Data SIG’s core team will be meeting on Monday 18th November at 14:00 GMT/UTC (15:00 CET/UTC+1) and WEMC members who have expressed an interest in Data SIG activities are cordially invited to participate.

The provisional agenda is:

1. Brief overview of the Data SIG and expression of interest
2. Data SIG engagement (use of WEMC members forum etc)
3. Public webinar (June 2019) and ICEM2019 workshop – brief overview and matters arising
4. Machine learning and data standards/platforms
5. Other issues – what should we prioritise?
6. Energy modelling (outcomes of discussion with CLIM2POWER team at EMP-E 2019 conference)
7. AOB

With specific reference to item 3, you may find it helpful in advance to read the summary (and watch the recording if you wish) of the public webinar at https://www.wemcouncil.org/wp/why-data-sharing-is-important-a-summary-from-wemcs-data-sig-public-webinar/.

The outcomes of the ICEM workshop can be found under ‘Downloads’ at https://www.wemcouncil.org/wp/icem2019-workshop-data/. Please register for the meeting at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/5f2994fa095273ee7c24e00bf0acd2b8.  

Alberto Troccoli

October 18, 2019 at 10:05 am #10196

Thanks for sharing Casie, and nice coincidence! I had the fortune of working at the Exploratorium for a couple of months during my year off. A magical place! Here’s a teacher training lesson (with materials) that Lori Lambertson and I did about graphing climate change: https://geogramblings.com/2018/03/07/how-to-make-a-graph-the-talk-of-the-town/

Alberto Troccoli

October 16, 2019 at 11:23 am #10192

Tuesday 15th October: SIG Meeting for TEACHERS

Please find here the link to the minutes from the ‘teachers meeting’ held on Tuesday 15th October 2019: https://1drv.ms/w/s!AqNXayFZWY1O_TW0dlVLKzkw-HFy?e=M7bayr

Recording: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqNXayFZWY1O_UNta-f5eXJHmXjH?e=IGszRm

Action items are highlighted YELLOW. Action items for individuals were agreed in the meeting. Action items for everyone are always optional, but your contribution to them would be exceptionally helpful. They are:

• ACTION: ALL – Spread word about RMetSoc’s “Come Rain or Shine” FutureLearn online course to whoever may benefit (teachers, trainees etc)
• ACTION: ALL – Please contribute at least one resource or link to the forum – in-kind benefit! : https://www.wemcouncil.org/wp/forums/topic/educational-resources/
• ACTION: ALL – Let Kit know if you are attending the Geographical Association Conference 2020 and whether you think it’s worthwhile them organising an Education SIG meet-up
• ACTION: ALL – If you are interested in engaging your students to test for the new Education Climate & Energy tool, and/or help with teaching resource creation please contact Kit directly.

Please see the minutes document for the context in which these action items were set.

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Alberto Troccoli

August 2, 2019 at 11:48 am #9806

I will add to this list as I come across more good examples! – Kit 

General resources:

• Royal Meteorological Society’s MetLink (United Kingdom): https://www.metlink.org/
  • Categorises resources by age group, syllabus and topic
• Geographical Association collation of climate change resources (United Kingdom): https://www.geography.org.uk/teaching-resources/weather-climate-change/investigating-climate-change 
• United Nations CC:Learn (Global): https://www.uncclearn.org/learning-resources 
  • Also is piloting a teacher ‘accreditation’ programme, although from experience it’s a bit buggy at the moment: https://www.unccteacheracademy.com/

Tools:

• IEA Statistics Browser (Global): https://www.iea.org/statistics/
  • Can drill-down into specific countries, exploring data such as energy supply, renewables etc…
• ECEM Demonstrator (Europe): http://ecem.wemcouncil.org/
  • WEMC is leading the development of an education version, which will include global datasets
• CarbonBrief’s “The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond” (Global): https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-two-degrees/
  • Stunningly presented, but very simply gives key statistics
  • Useful in conjuction with this map: https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-every-part-of-the-world-has-warmed-and-could-continue-to-warm
• Our World In Data (Global): https://ourworldindata.org/
  • Datasets and graphical representations for: CO₂ and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Energy Production & Changing Energy Sources; Fossil Fuels; Renewable Energy
• The 2 Degrees institute (Global): https://www.2degreesinstitute.org/
  • Interactive graph that can display carbon levels, temperature, sea-level rise etc
• Global Wind Atlas & Global Solar Atlas (Global): https://globalwindatlas.info/ and https://globalsolaratlas.info/
  • Technical, but very useful for enquiries into renewable energy (solar and wind)

Publications:

• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming (Global): https://www.drawdown.org/the-book (ISBN: 978-0-141-98843-6)
  • Very accessible and based on research, can use for place-based case-studies

 

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August 1, 2019 at 1:57 pm #9762

Tuesday 9th & 23rd July 2019: SIG Kick-Off Meetings

Please find here the link to the combined minutes from the two KO meetings that took place on Tuesday 9th & Tuesday 23rd July 2019.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AqNXayFZWY1O73pjcVgUjFP59Pz2

Action items are highlighted YELLOW. Action items for individuals were agreed in the meeting. Action items for everyone are always optional, but your contribution to them would be exceptionally helpful. They are:

• ACTION: ALL – Please contact Kit Rackley (KR) by Thursday 15^th August if interested [being a co-lead] and want to know more. Can the discuss a role description, expectations etc.
• ACTION: ALL – If you are aware, or become aware of a very good meteorology, energy, climate etc resource/resources that are relevant to your location/country/culture etc, then to post it on the WEMC Education SIG forum: https://www.wemcouncil.org/wp/forums/topic/educational-resources/

Please see the minutes document for the context in which these action items were set.

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Alberto Troccoli

July 15, 2019 at 2:04 pm #9587

Hello! I’m Kit (pronouns: they/them), WEMC’s Education & Program Officer, and the lead facilitator of the Education SIG. I have over a decade of experience teaching high-school in the United Kingdom, specialising in Geography, and the Natural/Earth/Environmental Sciences and Social Sciences, and I ams also a teacher trainer and educational author with a number of published articles. The Education SIG provides a fantastic opportunity for educators (at all levels), academics and experts working in industry to collaborate in a manner or ways towards a number of objectives, and it’s something I’m excited to be leading! In my spare time I maintain an educational and resource blog – https://www.geogramblings.com – which also gives you a good idea of my knowledge, expertise and educational style, I suppose!