NOAA Campus |
Stacey (REU '10) talks about her summer 2011 Hollings research. |
A NOAA scientist came out to greet us and briefly overview the NOAA
lab structure. |
Space Weather is both operations and research. |
Space weather operations floor. |
We also heard about tree ring and coral analyses to go beyond the
human temperature/precipitation record. |
Amber studies the rings of a happy (well hydrated) tree. |
Various samples around the table for us to look at while we listened. |
After seeing their Science on a Sphere, we took some pics before
driving to Foothills Lab. |
Wouldn't you like this view as you walk to the parking lot? |
After lunch we met up with the SOARS protégés to practice
for our
joint outreach activity. |
Alex and Curtis |
Working out the activity. |
Carl explains what he has in mind. |
Simulating atmospheric circulations.
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Circulations, from above. |
Close up. |
Explaining how this works.
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And making sure that it works! |
Practicing Bernoulli |
Building the tornado chambers. |
Working through weather trivia cards. |
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Adam seems a natural. |
Ooo, yeah. |
Getting some CCN into the bottle. |
As does Eric. |
He caught it! |
Magnet activity. |
Fun to play with! |
Giving the tornado some extra umph. |
Science is cool! |
Tornado close up. |
Trivia table. |
Travis was quite animated. |
Kids got a prize if they completed their cards. |
Closing remarks. |
Time for a good dinner! |
Hamming it up. |
Giver her a hand, please! |
Thanks! |
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