CAMEL's intent is to improve undergraduate education on climate change causes, consequences, and solutions. It will do so by engaging a community of faculty members and students in developing an extensive, vetted online collection of high quality educational materials about the adaptation and mitigation of climate change and the science at its foundation. The project will help prepare faculty to teach about climate science and solutions; developing a cyber-infrastructure built upon NCSE’s Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/) which provides public access to continually expanding and improving scientific resources.

MILESTONE
More than 130 educators have
signed on as potential CAMEL partners.

Introductory Presentations (CEDD Workshop - July 7-9, 2010)

Overview of CAMEL (video) - David Hassenzahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Content Development (video) - Arnold Bloom, University of California, Davis

CURRENT PROGRESS

Created prototype framework and beta website
Held workshop convening over 60 PIs of CCE projects funded by NSF, NASA, and NOAA in Spring 2010 (www.trunity.net/cce)
Established "Tracking the CAMEL" website
Developed a survey to identify community and faculty development needs and opportunities
Identified cyberinfrastructure (Encyclopedia of Earth – http://www.eoearth.org/)
Presented at CEDD summer 2009 and winter 2010 meetings, Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)
Representaed at an international conference in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (June 7-9, 2010)

NEXT STEPS

2010: Orient “pilot participant group" to CAMEL and solicit their participation and recommendations.

June & July -- Showcase CAMEL at AESS and CEDD workshops
Introduce CAMEL at national and international meetings in Climate Change Educations

2011 – 2012: Expand CAMEL user-base

Launch CAMEL website (January 2011)
Expand the CAMEL community to become a primary resource for climate change education

CAMEL LEADERSHIP

David Hassenzahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas/NCSE
Barry Benedict ,University of Texas, El Paso
Arnold Bloom, University of California, Davis
David Blockstein, NCSE/CEDD
Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College

Andy Jorgensen, University of Toledo / NCSE
Jean MacGregor, The Evergreen State College
Peter Saundry, NCSE
Ginny Brown, NCSE
Evaluation: Anne-Barrie Hunter, University of Colorado, Boulder

For more information contact Virginia Brown: Ginny@ncseonline.org | 202.207.0020