November 9, 2009

In conjunction with ESA's first Millennium Conference, which is covering the theme "Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought & Environmental Justice," EcoEd Digital Library is debuting a special collection, Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services. Do you have photographs, figures, tables, data, video, or activities that could be used to teach ecological topics related to drought? We encourage conference attendees and anyone else with research products that could be adapated to teach on this topic to contribute to the collection! More information on submitting for this special collection is available here.

Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection

Photo collection: "The effects of drought on Lake Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya." Margaret Mwangi, The Pennsylvania State University. Link to catalog.

Photo collection: "Drought adaptation using Acacia by the Maasai Pastoralists of southern Kenya." Margaret Mwangi, The Pennsylvania State University. Link to catalog.

Dataset: "Lake levels and drought indices in northern Wisconsin: data, graphs, and photographs." Emily Stanley, University of Wisconsin. Link to catalog.

Classroom activity: "Exploring relationships between river discharge and remotely sensible properties of the coastal ocean" Lawrence B. Cahoon, Kristin M. Hardy, and Dustin M. Allen. University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Link to catalog.

Classroom activity: "The partitioning of evapotranspiration into evaporation and transpiration: an experimental design assessing the effects of changes in vegetation cover." Juan Camilo Villegas^1,2, Clayton T. Morrison¹, Katharine L. Gerst¹, Carol R. Beal¹, Adriana Quirós². 1--University of Arizona, 2--Biosphere 2. Link to catalog.

Classroom activity: "Using Writing Pedagogy to Teach the Science and Policy Aspects of Drought and Water-Ecosystem Services in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (California, USA)." Sandra Cooke, Duke University. Link to catalog.

Case study video: "Extreme droughts in the southeast- How do we sustain ecosystem services?" Alan Covich¹, Amber Ignatius¹, Kyle McKay¹, Julie McIntire¹, Ted Gragson¹, Steve Golladay², Steve Opshahl². 1-- University of Georgia, 2-- Joseph Jones Ecological Research Center. Link to catalog.

Videos:

Ann Michel¹ , Phil Wilde¹ , Linda Lilienfeld² and David Kirschtel². 1-- Insights International, Inc., 2-- CUASHI.