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Community Meetings
Oct 19, 2009
Bernie Zak, ARM North Slope of Alaska Program Manager, speaking at the Atqasuk Community Meeting.
In October, the ARM Education and Outreach Program held a community meeting in Atqasuk, Alaska, to discuss climate change with the elders and community and to tell them about ARM and ARM educational opportunities. It also provided [...]
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Successful Partnering Produces Award Winning Proposal for Native Education Project
Oct 15, 2007
In July 2007, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded funding to a proposal developed by ACRF Education and Outreach and WGBH Boston—public television's pre-eminent production house. The winning project, titled "Engaging Alaska Natives with the Geosciences," will add digital media and teacher [...]
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Climate Research Facility in Papua New Guinea Launches Kiosk
Jul 08, 2007
In 2004, ACRF Education and Outreach worked with Tradewind Communications to film interviews around Manus Island for the kiosk.
The Climate Change: Science and Traditional Knowledge kiosk project for the ACRF Tropical Western Pacific sites has come full circle. Four years ago, ACRF Education [...]
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Barrow Teachers Learn About International Polar Year
Apr 09, 2007
Two Barrow teachers, Gary Boen and Imelda Cabana, were sent to the NSTA conference in St. Louis.
Science teachers in Barrow, Alaska, know that climate change is something their students can experience simply by stepping out into their own back yards. But that doesn't mean teachers [...]
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ACRF Education and Outreach Presents Women in Science Conference
Feb 27, 2007
ACRF Education and Outreach staff attemded the Women In Science Conference at the Omniplex Science Museum.
ACRF Education and Outreach staff presented information about the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program at the Women In Science Conference at the Omniplex Science Museum. The event was sponsored [...]
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Oklahoma Science Fair: The Results are In!
Feb 24, 2007
Parker Stambaugh, a seventh-grader, won first place with his experiment, "Still Breathing Easy."
On February 24, 2007, two students walked away from the Oklahoma Mesonet/ARM Science Fair with a trophy in-hand. Parker Stambaugh, a seventh-grader at Emerson Junior High in Enid, and Giezi Flores, a sixth-grader [...]
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Last year's EarthStorm workshop included several mini field trips, including a tour of the ARM Central Facility in Lamont, Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Climatological will offer the EarthStorm weather institute for teachers again this summer in Norman, Okla. Limited to 20 participants, the workshop is a popular professional development resource for teachers who want to build [...]
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Children surround the newly installed kiosk at the Nauru airport.
Surround by the Pacific Ocean, the Republic of Nauru is a small island inhabited by people who have a keen understanding of the importance of weather and climate. Coastal erosion, drought and rising sea level are only a few concerns Nauruans have related to climate [...]
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Seventh graders tour the ARM SGP site in November.
On November 1, 2006, the SGP site hosted a group of 30 seventh graders from the local Deer Creek-Lamont school district. The students and their teacher, Deborah McFeeters, were on a mission to learn about the ARM Program and the exciting research taking place at the [...]
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ARM Education and Outreach installed an educational kiosk in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia.
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory is now home to the Climate Change: Science and Traditional Knowledge kiosk, developed by ARM Education and Outreach for the Darwin, Australia community. A crowd of [...]
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ARM scientists and graduate students visited a classroom at Wagaman Primary School in Darwin during the two-month TWP-ICE field campaign.
Many students and teachers in the Darwin community received first-hand information about ARM research and the exciting Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment that took place in January and February this year. ARM Education and Outreach arranged [...]
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Students look at science projects at the Oklahoma Climatological Survey science fair in February.
This year's best-of-show project on renewable energy.
The Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) hosted its 12th annual Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)/Mesonet Science Fair in February 2005. Nearly 100 students from across the state of Oklahoma participated in the fair. The students were mentored by [...]
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Bernie Zak, NSA ARM site manager, gives a tour of the NSA site.
In October, the ARM Education team met with several teachers and school administrators to reestablish a working relationship and to determine how to best enhance the existing ARM education outreach programs for the North Slope. Some of the current issues that the North [...]
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People view the new ARM Climate Change Kiosk at the NSA site.
The ARM Education and Outreach team had a very successful trip to the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) in October. The main purpose of the trip was to dedicate the new interactive kiosk titled "Climate Change: Science and Traditional Knowledge," now on permanent display [...]
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Teacher measuring temperature as a part of the "Arctic Microclimates" Lesson.
Carrie Talus telling the participating teachers about the ARM Project and the ARM Education Program.
Laura Marsh and Carrie Talus of ARM Education recently presented teachers' workshops in basic climate change science at three schools in the North Slope. Marsh's presentations included a discussion of global [...]
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