| Charles Keeling & Measuring Atmospheric CO2 by John Leaf
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VISUALS title 1950s' home Charles "Dave" Keeling, around 1955 [courtesy of Keeling family & Scripps Institution of Oceanography] manometer Keeling's instrument Big Sur State Park West Coast sampling sites Charles Keeling (1958) [courtesy of Keeling family & Scripps Institution of Oceanography] Gilbert Plass Harry Wexler Roger Revelle Charles Keeling (1958) [courtesy of Keeling family & Scripps Institution of Oceanography] Mauna Loa -- map Mauna Loa observatory (1956) infrared analyzer infrared analyzer -- diagram Keeling at Mauna Loa, 1958 early CO2 data, 1960 earth vegetation Mauna Loa Keeling (1964) [courtesy of Keeling family & Scripps Institution of Oceanography] smog, New York City [Life magazine] CO2 data through 1964 smog, (Pasadena highway, 2007) CO2 data through 1969 Keeling (1967) [courtesy of Keeling family & Scripps Institution of Oceanography] NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) drought [Richard Lord, UMCOR] NSF (National Science Foudation) CO2 data through 1976 DOE, NOAA, NSF & SIO isotope results glacier collecting CO2 sample [NOAA, 1982] Ronald Reagan Al Gore Keeling & measuring instrument [date?] Mauna Loa station the "Keeling Curve" Keeling's sources of funding, 195 Keeling's instruments political context Keeling's collaborators and supporters Keeling, young and old Activities [student data sheets] Activity 1--data | view Activity 1--images | view Activity 1--map Activity 2 | view Activity 3 | view Activity 4 | view Activity 5 | view THINK exercises: THINK: reasons for variable CO2 measurements THINK: role of precision in Keeling's 1955-56 findings THINK: comparing measurements of different instruments THINK: role of precision in Keeling's 1958-60 findings THINK: benefits of collaborating on CO2 measurements THINK: interpreting CO2 data 1957-1964 THINK: interpreting CO2 data 1957-1969 THINK: concerns about calibration and competing researchers THINK: interpreting CO2 data 1957-1976 THINK: political context of funding science