Argo floats
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This minute video segment from Catalyst decade ago describes the Australian initiative, Argo, that has become a major international collaborative project to look at the world's oceans and help understand processes at depth - monitoring the pulse of the global heat balance and giving us vital information on the ocean's role in climate. Today there are over 3000 Argo Floats deployed around the world. This is an excellent example of how new technologies can change scientific understanding and help us understand the ocean and climate change.
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NSW syllabus outcomes
(SC5-13ES) explains how scientific knowledge about global patterns of geological activity and interactions involving global systems can be used to inform decisions related to contemporary issues
Australian curriculum content descriptions
(ACSSU176) Ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment; matter and energy flow through these systems
(ACSHE157) Scientific understanding, including models and theories, are contestable and are refined over time through a process of review by the scientific community
(ACSHE158) Advances in scientific understanding often rely on developments in technology and technological advances are often linked to scientific discoveries
(ACSHE160) People can use scientific knowledge to evaluate whether they should accept claims, explanations or predictions
(ACSSU189) Global systems, including the carbon cycle, rely on interactions involving the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere
(ACSHE192) Advances in scientific understanding often rely on developments in technology and technological advances are often linked to scientific discoveries
(ACSHE230) The values and needs of contemporary society can influence the focus of scientific research
More information
- Resource type:
- MovingImage
- ScOT topics:
- Technology, Climate change, Salinity, Continental shelf
- File type:
- text/html
- Language/s:
- en-AU
- Author:
- ABC - Catalyst
- Publisher:
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Date created:
- Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Resource ID: a4e6e857-469a-4e3a-a25e-1d4e285b6c5b