This informal education project utilizes the Science on a Sphere (SOS) Network to enable meaningful interpretation of real-time weather and climate data by museum docents and visitors viewing SOS exhibits nationwide. The project will generate and provide real-time NOAA weather, climate and ocean data to the SOS Network along with appropriate training for docents. It will also provide data interpretation summaries, data discussions and concise talking points on a regularly updated blog. This project is being implemented by a collaborative team of two weather and climate centers of NOAA/NESDIS: the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), in association with the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory, the I.M. Systems Group, and the Maryland Science Center.
Funders
NOAA
Funding Program:
2010 - Environmental Literacy Grants for Informal/Nonformal Science Education
Award Number:
NA10SEC0080015
Funding Amount:
$1,001,637
NOAA
Funding Program:
2010 - Environmental Literacy Grants for Informal/Nonformal Science Education
Award Number:
NA10SEC0080013
Funding Amount:
$158,250
TEAM MEMBERS
Steven Ackerman
Principal Investigator
University of Wisconsin System / Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Phillip Arkin
Principal Investigator
University of Maryland / Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
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