Resources for Coastal Fieldwork 2014-15

Picture from the Gulf News

Dubai Coast from the air

These are some resources that you might like to refer to in preparation for your fieldwork and coursework.


Another site
Dubai Municipality article

Also worth a read

Integrated Coastal Zone Management

http://www.dubaicoast.ae/ for local up to date information including live web cams at various points along the beach

Useful PDF article what can be accessed here. I’ve printed off a copy.

http://91.74.184.65/videoplayer/MESSINA%20-%20Component%202%20-%20Case-Study%20-%20Dubai.pdf?ich_u_r_i=9d3136494e991d399f263ab932998449&ich_s_t_a_r_t=0&ich_e_n_d=0&ich_k_e_y=1445108916750863042419&ich_t_y_p_e=1&ich_d_i_s_k_i_d=2&ich_u_n_i_t=1

Google Earth allows the coast to be explored historically back to about 2003

Also, search google images for Dubai beach erosion

Gulf News article with fome excellent maps and photographs http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/saving-dubai-s-beaches-1.217282

From the National newspaper

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/developments-like-jumeirah-are-speeding-up-erosion

This site for a pretty hefty synopsis of the current situation

https://coast.noaa.gov/cz/CZ05_Proceedings/pdf%20files/Smit.pdf

Coastal Care with some good video

http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/dubais-staggering-growth-a-nasa-video/

Need for sand for Dubai’s beaches

http://www.itp.net/482085-

Another useful site

https://sites.google.com/site/palmislandsimpact/environmental-impacts

The Causes of Aridity

A Postcard to the Geography Department

If you are somewhere nice or unusual this summer the Geography Department would love to hear from you.

Please send your postcard to:

The Geography Department,
Dubai College,
P.O.Box 837,
Dubai
UAE

Holiday Work for Year 10 JS class

• Internet research
• Find out about the demographic transition model
• Answer these questions:
• what does it show?
• explain what is happening at each stage
• answer question 2 on page 236
• why is this model useful when studying population?

Lucidchart test

Lucidchart

9NL Padlet wall

Click the link and add 2 amazing facts about Africa - one of which MUST be positive

http://padlet.com/wall/ftsrvm7k79do

‘The last free people on the planet'

In small pockets around the world live isolated indigenous communities. It’s important for humanity these peoples exist… they’re the last free people on this planet.’

Research Questions
What numbers are we talking? How many isolated tribes have been discovered? How many are there estimated to be? Have the tribes been given names?

Where in Brazil? Specific areas? Have areas been zoned off or protected by the Brazilian Gov't?
Are there dedicated gov't organisations whose job it is to identify & protect these people?

Many of these groups have tragic histories of encounters with outsiders — too much ‘contact’ — where they fought to preserve their isolation and, usually, came up much worse off than their more numerous intrude6rs.


Are there any success stories? Tribes successfully protected ........
Are there any tragic stories where tribes have been wiped out in recent history?

The uncontacted tribe in theBBC video you watched has been monitored by the Brazilian government for 20 years, and lives in a reserve set up to protect uncontacted tribes........WHERE? WHO?

FUNAI (Brazil’s National Foundation of the Indian) - What do they do, how do they do it? Are they successful?

Take a look at these:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm

more to follow......keep refreshing

MAKE SURE THEY ARE UNCONTACTED TRIBES.
***** IF THEY ARE ON YOUTUBE CLOSE UP THEN THEY ARE NOT COMPLETELY ISOLATED AND UNCONTACTED*****