Climate.gov team produces visual highlights for 2015 Arctic Report Card
The Climate.gov team provided visual highlights to accompany the latest installment of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, released December, 15 2015.
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Climate.gov team supports 2014 State of the Climate rollout
On July 17, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society released the 2014 State of the Climate report. CPO’s Climate.gov team created highlights for this report in consultation with the report’s editors and authors.
NOAA unveils Climate Challenge: an interactive game to build and test climate knowledge
Have you ever wanted to test your climate prediction skills against the experts’? Now you can! Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate.gov team released Climate Challenge, a new educational online game that invites players to learn more about climate science and to test their knowledge.
CPO partners with Office of Education, National Ocean Service on White House Climate Education Initiative
On October 22, Holdren (and staff) posted a “Call to Action” blog which was essentially the start of the climate education initiative. NOAA’s Climate Program Office in partnership with the Office of Education and the National Ocean Service worked with OSTP to develop the initiative and submitted a number of commitments released in the White House Factsheet (Released Dec. 3).
Pulwarty invted to keynote at the VIII Americas Competitiveness Forum
Roger Pulwarty is an invited keynote speaker at the VII Americas Competitiveness Forum. Roger has been asked to speak on climate science and services: education and innovations.
Climate.gov staff, NOAA leadership attend Webby Awards
After winning three awards in the 2014 Webby Awards, NOAA Climate.gov was invited to give a five-word acceptance speech at a ceremony in New York City on Monday. David Herring and Frank Niepold of NOAA Climate.gov attended along with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan and Senior Advisor Christine Blackburn. Dr. Sullivan accepted the awards. Her speech: “Earth: Our home. NOAA’s mission.”
Moving toward collective impact in climate change literacy: the Climate Literacy And Energy Awareness Network
A CLEAN manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geoscience Education theme issue on climate literacy. In recent years various climate change education efforts have been launched, including federally (NOAA, NASA, NSF, etc.) and privately funded projects, as well as the development and deployment of the Climate and Energy Literacy frameworks, both reviewed and endorsed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.