Selected Links and Publications for More Information about Methane Hydrates

From a www.dlese.org search with key words "methane hydrates":
 

What's the Big Deal?: Methane Hydrates (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03windows/background/education/media/...

In this lesson, students learn about the occurrence and significance of methane hydrates on the Blake Ridge offshore Charleston, South Carolina. They will be able to define methane hydrates and describe where these substances are typically found and how they are believed to be formed. Students will also describe at least three ways in which methane hydrates could have a direct impact on their own lives, and describe how additional knowledge of methane hydrates expected from the Blake Ridge expedition could provide human benefits... Full description. See reviews, teaching tips, related resources, etc. This resource supports educational standards.

This resource is in these collections: DLESE Community Collection (DCC), CRS Annotated Collection

Grade level: High (9-12) Resource type: Classroom activity, Lesson plan Subject: Biological oceanography, Chemical oceanography, Physical oceanography

 

Gas Hydrates: It's a Gas http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02hudson/background/edu/media/hc_...

In this activity, students will discover the importance of carbon, where carbon is stored on Earth, and that the largest reservoir of carbon is in the form of gas hydrates where methane and other hydrocarbon gases are trapped in a lattice of water molecules in deep sea sediments. Students will learn how climate change is related to the greenhouse effect... Full description. See reviews, teaching tips, related resources, etc. This resource supports educational standards.

This resource is in these collections: DLESE Community Collection (DCC), CRS Annotated Collection

Grade level: High (9-12) Resource type: Lesson plan Subject: Climatology, Chemical oceanography, Physical oceanography

The Big Burp: A Bad Day in the Paleocene http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03windows/background/education/media/...

This lesson focuses on global warming and a possible connection with the Paleocene extinction event. Students will explore how a global warming episode associated with the release of methane from methane hydrate deposits could have been responsible for the Paleocene extinction event 55 million years ago... Full description. See reviews, teaching tips, related resources, etc. This resource supports educational standards.

This resource is in these collections: DLESE Community Collection (DCC), CRS Annotated Collection

Grade level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8) Resource type: Classroom activity, Lesson plan Subject: Climatology, Paleontology

Life Without Light http://www.bio.psu.edu/People/Faculty/Fisher/cold_seeps/

Life Without Light presents material describing the unique animal communities surrounding deep-sea methane seep habitats in the Gulf of Mexico. Visitors can study numerous photographs and brief text descriptions of tubeworms, mussels, ice worms, and other organisms that inhabit an ecosystem that exists in total darkness... Full description. This resource supports educational standards.

This resource is in these collections: Digital Water Ed Library (DWEL), DLESE Reviewed Collection (DRC)

Grade level: High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16), Graduate / Professional Resource type: Photograph, Video, Ref. material Subject: Ecology, Biological oceanography

Selected Other Sites :

Ocean Drilling Program Leg 204: Drilling Gas Hydrates On Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Continental Margin http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/BRG/ODP/ODP/LEG_SUMM/204/leg204.html

ODP Leg 164 Gas Hydrate Sampling on the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise Logging Report
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/BRG/ODP/ODP/LEG_SUMM/164/leg164.html

NOAA Ocan Explorer Expeditions: Deep East -- Background http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/background/fire/fire.html

National Energy Technology Laboratory Methane Hydrate Newsletter: Fire in the Ice
http://www.netl.doe.gov/scngo/NaturalGas/hydrates/newsletter/HMNewsFall04.pdf

"Methane Hydrates and Abrupt Climate Change" by Gerard Dickens, Geotimes Nov 2004
http://www.geotimes.org/nov04/feature_climate.html

"Don't Try This at Home" Joint Oceanographic Institutions in the Classroom (www.joilearning.org) http://www.oceandrilling.org/Education/Curriculum_Activities/Dont_Try_this.pdf

The Earth Scientist Summer 2005 NESTA (National Earth Science Teacher Association) http://www.oceandrilling.org/Education/Curriculum_Activities/TES_Summer05.pdf

Publications

Paull, C.K., et al, 2000, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Volume 164 Scientific Results Gas Hydrate Sampling on the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise. National Science Foundation & Joint Oceanographic Institutions.

Trehu, A.M, et al, 20003, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Volume 204 Initial Reports Drilling Gas Hydrates on Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Continental Margin. National Science Foundation & Joint Oceanographic Institutions.