news on the hill NASA-funded conference addresses climate change Discussions about climate change are often domi- public about scientific research related to climate nated by opinion, with authenticated information change. He discussed the efficacy of climate mod- harder to come by. What have scientific research- els in predicting future conditions, concluding that ers learned about the current state of our climate, while such models are by no means perfect, they can how do they collect data about the seas and atmo- be very useful. sphere, and how do they test their conclusions? Dr. Keith Mountain of the University of To help answer these questions, Bellarmine’s Louisville’s Geography/Geosciences Department Center for Regional Environmental Studies (now discussed what his work in the world’s ice fields has the School of Environmental Studies) held a free revealed about past climatic conditions. daylong symposium on climate change in Frazier Hall on In the afternoon, 35 teachers attended a workshop hosted Sept. 22. The symposium was funded by a grant from NASA by Drs. Kate Bulinski and Kristin Cook of Bellarmine on Kentucky’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive effective ways to teach climate change in the K-12 classroom. Research. They participated in five stations demonstrating and con- The keynote speaker was Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a climate ducting experiments on important climate science concepts scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies who and received a collection of lesson plans, both primary and co-wrote Climate Change: Picturing the Science in 2009 and secondary, that were developed by Shawn Marshall and received the American Geophysical Union’s inaugural climate Tracy Law, both students at Bellarmine and teachers at local communications prize in 2011 for his efforts to educate the schools. Photo by Bill Luster 12 BellarMine Magazine
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