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SUNY Sustainability: A Climate Changes Solutions Curriculum

Robert Malmsheimer

SUNY


The project seeks to create a new course focused on global climate change solutions. A hypothesis central to the curriculum development is that a one credit web-based course provides essential ingredients that can serve as the basis for students to continue engaging climate change solutions after completing the course. It is anticipated that up to 1,000 students per year (by year five) may be enrolled in a SUNY-wide course on climate change dynamics, its current and potential impacts on regional and global ecosystems, and how sustainable solutions could be constructed. This estimate is conservative given SUNY current undergraduate enrollment and an initiative to make the course available to the more than 300,000 students on SUNY's sixty-four campuses. SUNY-ESF is uniquely positioned to lead the development and delivery of this course. As one of only nine doctoral-granting institutions in the SUNY Systems, all of ESF's undergraduate and graduate programs focus on environmental science and natural resources management.

Funding agency NASA
Through the funding program GCCE

Award Numbers NNX09AL88G

Selection Year:
2008

Award Period:
7/1/2009 - 6/30/2011

Products

2 online courses for undergraduates: 1) Climate change and sustainability (1 credit) for non-science majors and 2) Climate change nand environmental meteorology for science majors.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

Audience Type: Students

Product Type: Curriculum, Professional Development

YouTube videos explaining climate change concepts to general public using NASA, NOAA, etc. resources.

Audience Type: Neighborhood/Community Org

Product Type: Electronic Media & Tools, Video/Radio/Webcasts