CA Department of Water Resources (DWR) & Water Education Foundation
RESOURCE LINKS – 2021
Understanding & Communicating Climate Change
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – Climate Change Basics
- NOAA: Earth System Research Laboratory – Global Monitoring Division / FAQs
- NASA Global Climate Change – Vital Signs of the Planet
- American Institute of Physics – The Discovery of Global Warming
- OEHHA Posters: – ‘Climate Change in California’
Going Green at Home
- Money Saving Guide to Going Green at Home – Reduce Water Usage
Videos & Visualizations
- NASA World of Change: Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – “A Climate of Change”
- Climate Lab Book Blog – Spiraling Global Temperatures / Other Visualization Climate Resources
- NASA Animation – ‘Earth’s Long-Term Warming Trend, 1880-2015’
- Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network – Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Over 800,000 Years
- Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network – Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Combustion
- NOVA PBS – ‘Understanding Natural Climate Cycles’
- DWR Climate Conversations – ‘Tribal Perspectives on Climate Change’
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – ‘Atmospheric Rivers Research’
- Global Weirding – I’m Just a Kid, There’s Nothing I Can Do About Climate Change, Right?
Climate Data Sources:
- US Drought Monitor – California
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – California Data Exchange Center (CDEC)
- Natural Resources Conservation Service – SNOTEL (snow data)
- US Geological Survey – USGS Mapper (stream gage data)
- com – U.S. Climate Data (climographs & monthly temps)
- NOAA – Western Regional Climate Center (precipitation & temperature data records)
- Cal-Adapt – Climate Tools (Current & future climate trend data)
- PRISM – Climate Data
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory – Mauna Loa CO2 Data
- NOAA – ‘PaleoClimate Datasets’
- TreeFlow – Tree-Ring Reconstructions
California Project WET & Other Curriculum Resources Discussed During the Workshop
- ‘Understanding Climate Change’ Resources
- Project WET Online Activity Resources
- California Activity Modifications
- California Project WET Gazette – e-newsletter focusing on use and application of PWET activities
- CA Dept. of Water Resources School Education Resources
- USGS Water Science for Schools
K-12 Citizen Science/Climate Action Opportunities
- Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network – CoCoRAHS
- California Phenology Project – CPP / Nature’s Notebook
- CA Coastal Commission – California King Tides Project / Photo Gallery
- Cool California – Climate Calculators for Schools
- US Forest Service – i-Tree
- EarthEcho International – Water Challenge
- Project Drawdown – Solutions (There are solutions K-12 students are tackling in the solution bank)
- En-ROADS – Climate Solutions Simulator
- Additional Carbon Calculators – EPA Carbon Footprint Calculator / Carbon Footprint Ltd
Climate Change in California
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – Climate Change Program / Climate News Digest
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – Annual Hydroclimate Reports
- OEHHA – Indicators of Climate Change in California
- Cal-Adapt – Exploring California’s Climate Change Research
- CA Natural Resources Agency – Safegaurding California
- California Climate Assessment – Statewide Reports / Region Reports
- Pacific Institute: The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast – Sea-Level Rise Maps
- CA Dept. of Water Resources – Water-Energy Nexus
- CA Air Resources Board – CoolCalifornia –> Households & Schools
- Water Education Foundation – Aquafornia
California Adaptation & Mitigation Projects
- CA Natural Resources Agency – California EcoRestore
- CA Department of Water Resources – Delta Conveyance
- CA Coastal Commission – Climate Change
- California Air Resources Board – California Climate Investments Project Map