Melting glaciers

Melting glaciers – a new website that is part of the project Icelandic Glaciers – a natural laboratory to study climate change, Melting Glaciers for short. The Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources has appointed the Vatnajökull National Park in cooperation with the Icelandic Meteorological Office to implement the project, in collaboration with the South East Iceland Nature Research Center and the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Iceland. The goal of the project, which is a part of the government’s climate change agenda, is to increase awareness about climate change and the associated consequences for glaciers in Iceland and elsewhere.

The FRIENDS of Vatnajökull Association funded part of the educational website.

An attractive website worth a look.

Earth Primer for Mac

A few years ago, I was intrigued by news of an excellent app called Earth Primer which ran on iPads and offered the chance to play with the earth's processes... a sort of geomorphological sandbox. To reach this stage involved 'playing' through a range of chapters which introduced the different elements of the earth's systems, starting with the interior, where you had the chance to play through a number of activities to unlock tools and scenarios.
Tjere were some excellent individual tools, such as shaping sand dunes, and seeing biomes adapt as you raised the temperature, or added a patch of ice.

The reason for posting was to say thanks to Chaim Gingold, creator of the app, for letting me have a preview copy of the app for an early look. It's just as good as the original iPad, but from today, Earth Primer is also available for Mac.  

The price is £14.99, and it is available for Family Sharing.

You'll have the whole world in your hands...

Yukon Landform Atlas

Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff.

Earth Primer: the soundtrack...

The Earth Primer app is now out (see previous post) and should be an essential addition to your iPad app collection.
The music is cool, and would make good 'mood music' for your Geography classroom, to help when students need a bit of inspirational music while working...
The soundtrack, by Cliff Caruthers is now on Bandcamp.