b'Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Coral Reefs of the World Using Google EarthJessica Carreon, Cayla Harding, Nya Lumpkin, Koshi Noor, Bailyn Rowe, Jeremy Quintano, Cleanthi Greg Zuppas and Jose Camacho-CernaSponsor: Dr. Thomas Manning, Department of ChemistryThere are many factors that are negatively impacting our oceans including ocean acidification, plastic pollution, agriculture run-off, shoreline erosion. Since 2011 Google has expanded its map service to the worlds ocean. Google started with the ocean floor The ocean floors contain dramatic landscapesvolcanic ridges, lofty peaks, wide plains and deep valleys. Thanks to a new synthesis of seafloor topography released through Google Earth, armchair explorers can now view five percent of the deep ocean floor in far greater detail than ever before. Oceanographers at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory developed the new feature from scientific data collected on research cruises. Features that were visible as one-kilometer grids (.62 mile) now have a resolution tightened to around 100 meters (109 yards). The 100-meter resolution in the new views is still generally less than the resolution on land, which goes to centimeters in some areas. It later was extended to underwater photography of coral reefs around the world. This allows students to enter a number of ecosystems around the world and do species identification, and cross referencing the visual work with the scientific literature that focused on human impact within this specific ecosystem. This presentation will take the audience to coral reefs around the word and demonstrate the impact our species is having on these delicate ecosystems.23'