MPE Sustainable Planet Curriculum Workshop

October 20 - 22, 2011
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Midge Cozzens, DIMACS, midgec at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Eugene Fiorini, DIMACS, gfiorini at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College and the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN)

Abstracts:

Title: Wet Labs in Climate Science and Modeling

The most important step in both science and mathematical modeling is validation -- comparing the predictions made by models with real world observations and experiments. This is difficult in climate science because we have only one Earth and it doesn't fit very well in our classrooms. Even worse, the very definition of climate as opposed to weather precludes short experiments. We will do some experiments that build understanding and often have surprising results and that fit our classrooms, classhours, and budgets.

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