GMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

Biology/Environmental Sciences

• Monday 22nd March 2010 - John Leggott College, Scunthorpe

Curriculum areas covered during masterclass:

• Introduction to the biosphere
• Biotic and abiotic components - use of satellite data
• Animal migration and GMES data
• EM spectrum applied to ecosystem observation
• Effects of uV as a mutagenic agent
• Chirality of amino acids
• DNA extraction
• Climate change and the enhanced greenhouse effect
• Case studies of thermal stress on aquatic species
• Use of Google Earth in biology/environmental science teaching
• Applications to exobiology and the search for life on Mars

Course tutor:

Chris Carr (Biology/Environmental Sciences)

Chris Carr is a Space Academy Lead Educator based at John Leggott Sixth Form College, North
Lincolnshire.

Currently seconded to the Space Academy, he has used his experience of teaching biology and
environmental science, together with a lifelong interest in space science to produce this
masterclass.

Chris has taught for nine years in both the secondary and further education sectors and is a
member of the Institute of Biology. He now teaches both A-Level Biology and GCSE Applied
Science to students across a full range of abilities and has specific responsibilities for the
support of gifted and talented students and the use of technology for learning.

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