Your Future

What does the future hold for you?

Global Warming?

OR

Man-Made Disaster?

What difference can it make?

Did I hear you say: It doesn’t matter to me or you? Well, who will it matter too? Will the future of the world make more

of a difference to you or to me?

What tools can we use to help us become more aware?

Observation Documentation Experimentation Analysis of data …???

Scientific Tools

Microscope Submarines Satellites Computers Software Programs ??????

ImageJ: Image Processing & Analysis Program

A free Software tool used by scientists, mathematicians, teachers, students, and whomever desires to learn to use it, that is distributed by our government.

ImageJ

Free tool can be downloaded at:http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html

Measurement of images From microscopic images to large land forms

Time lapse animation of images Images taken over a time period

ARAL SEATRAGEDY

4th Biggest INLAND Lake

Now mostly a desert!

Images Over Time

Aral Sea as observed from space. From NASA Earth Observatory.

The Remnants of the Aral Sea in 2007

The Remnants of the Aral Sea from 1973 to 2000

The Remnants of the Aral Sea in 1973 to 2000

Animated Stack

QuickTime™ and aSorenson Video decompressorare needed to see this picture.

What did the scientists find out? The Soviet Union was diverting the Syr

Darya & the Amu Darya Rivers from feeding water to the Aral Sea.

The water was used for irrigating cotton crops and rice fields

AND, poorly built irrigation canals along with water evaporation caused 90% of the water loss.

What happened to the area? The sea level continued to drop each year

and over 40 years: 90 % = desert Lakes salt content was 33 g/litre and it

increased to 98 g/litre 73 species of birds either died or left the area 70 species of mammals either died or left the

area 24 species of fish died

What happened to the area? ALL the lakes fish & plant life died in that

90% of the Aral Sea Salt pans and contaminated runoff lakes have

appeared Crops that can grow are being killed off by the

heavy salt-laden particles falling on the good land

Winters have become harsher & longer Summers have become hotter & shorter

What happened to the people?

There had been 27 million inhabitants living in this area because there aren’t any jobs people have

left the area fishing industry that employed 60,000

people ended all canning plants closed jobs have gone away

Health Issues• Tuberculosis• Cancers• Other lung disease • infant mortality is • 30 times higher than it used to be.

• WHY?• drinking water is heavily polluted with salt• drinking water is heavily polluted with

fertilizers used to grow the cotton • drinking water is heavily polluted with

pesticides• The air quality is extremely poor!

Website Resources:

•Story of the sea and picture of the ships.http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/aral-sea.html

•Map of where the sea is located:•Satellite pictures of the area:http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/dyingseas.html

•The Health of the people:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/678898.stm

Video Website Resources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUyddi_5j8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWidOoFJN48&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSEdGusF3qA&feature=related