Connecting Researchers with Teachers" Earth2Class at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

The Earth2Class program at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science of Columbia University has provided an effective strategy to connect research scientists engaged in climate change studies with classroom teachers and students. Lamont scientists are among the leaders in their fields, and have been willing to provide easy-to-understand conversations with middle and high school teachers and students on Saturdays to explain recent advances in climate change and related geoscience topics. In recent years, many of these presentations have been presented through a zoom or hybrid format, and recordings have been posted on the E2C youtube website (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCadTrEtrumYSGOEcfMB4h-w). In earlier years, archive versions of the E2C programs were included in the E2C website (https://earth2class.org/site/). One offshoot of the E2C program at Lamont has been E2C em Diamantina (https://earth2class.org/site/?p=12652), a cooperative program between Lamont and the Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri in Diamantina, M.G., Brazil, which has included a student conferece dealing with climate change in Brazil. The E2C program, and related activities, provide examples of easily-duplicated programs at other insitutions.