Boulder Day 2

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.

Circulations, from above.

Close up.

Explaining how this works.

And making sure that it works!

Practicing Bernoulli

Building the tornado chambers.

Working through weather trivia cards.

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!