Project EDDIE: MODELING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON LAKES USING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Instructor’s manual This module was initial developed by Carey, C.C., S. Aditya, K. Subratie, and R. Figueiredo. 1 May 2016. Project EDDIE: Modeling Climate Change Effects on Lakes Using Distributed Computing. Project EDDIE Module 4, Module development was supported by NSF DEB 1245707 and ACI 1234983. Version 1. .” This module was first created by Cayelan Carey for her graduate-level ‘Freshwaters in the in Spring 2015, and modified from subsequent use in her Anthropocene’ course at Virginia Tech undergraduate Freshwater Ecology course at Virginia Tech and Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) graduate student workshops. Overall description: Climate change is modifying the thermal structure of lakes around the globe. In this module, students will learn how to use a lake model to explore the effects of altered weather on lakes, and then develop their own climate scenarios to test hypotheses about how lakes may change in the future. Once the students have mastered running one climate scenario for their lake, they will learn how to use distributed computing software to scale up and run hundreds of different climate scenarios for their lakes. The overarching goal of this module is for students to explore new modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts about how climate change will affect lakes. Pedagogical connections: Phase Functions Examples from this module Engagement Short introductory lecture Introduce topic, gauge students’ preconceptions, call up students’ schemata Exploration Engage students in inquiry, scientific Development of hypotheses of how discourse, evidence-based reasoning climate change affects lakes; testing of these hypotheses by forcing lake models with climate scenarios to see how the lakes respond Explanation Engage students in scientific In-class discussion of the effects of the discourse, evidence-based reasoning different climate scenarios Expansion Broaden schemata to Using the GRAPLEr software to create students’ account for more observations hundreds of different climate scenarios Evaluation Assess understanding, In-class discussion of how climate students’ formatively and summatively change can affect lake thermal structure Learning objectives: Set up and run the General Lake Model (GLM) in the R statistical environment to
Project EDDIE: MODELING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON LAKES USING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Instructor’s manual This module was initial developed by Carey, C.C., S. Aditya, K. Subratie, and R. Figueiredo. 1 May 2016. Project EDDIE: Modeling Climate Change Effects on Lakes Using Distributed Computing. Project EDDIE Module 4, Version 1. .” Module development was supported by NSF DEB 1245707 and ACI 1234983. This module was first created by Cayelan Carey for her graduate-level ‘Freshwaters in the Anthropocene’ course at Virginia Tech in Spring 2015, and modified from subsequent use in her undergraduate Freshwater Ecology course at Virginia Tech and Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) graduate student workshops. Overall description: Climate change is modifying the thermal structure of lakes around the globe. In this module, students will learn how to use a lake model to explore the effects of altered weather on lakes, and then develop their own climate scenarios to test hypotheses about how lakes may change in the future. Once the students have mastered running one climate scenario for their lake, they will learn how to use distributed computing software to scale up and run hundreds of different climate scenarios for their lakes. The overarching goal of this module is for students to explore new modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts about how climate change will affect lakes. Pedagogical connections: Phase Functions Examples from this module Engagement Introduce topic, gauge students’ preconceptions, call up students’ schemata Short introductory lecture Exploration Engage students in inquiry, scientific discourse, evidence-based reasoning Development of hypotheses of how climate change affects lakes; testing of these hypotheses by forcing lake models with climate scenarios to see how the lakes respond Explanation Engage students in scientific discourse, evidence-based reasoning In-class discussion of the effects of the different climate scenarios Expansion Broaden students’ schemata to account for more observations Using the GRAPLEr software to create hundreds of different climate scenarios Evaluation Assess students’ understanding, formatively and summatively In-class discussion of how climate change can affect lake thermal structure Learning objectives: Set up and run the General Lake Model (GLM) in the R statistical environment to