Crossroads: Education through Spherical Projection Systems

Overview

• Content

• Format

• Module Details

• Advisory Group

• Kiosk

• Other Spherical Displays

• Evaluation

Content

• Global Climate Change

• Restless Earth

• Exploring Weather & Climate through Time

• Real-Time Planet Earth

Format• Live public program

– 20 minute program for the general public

• Live school program– 25-minute program for school children for grades 5 – 12– aligned to national & Hawai‘i science content standards– Pre/post visit lessons working in partnership with DOE

• Automated program– 4 to 8 minutes– Audio narration and music

• Kiosk mode

Global Climate Change

• Science and impacts of climate change• Mitigation and adaptation efforts• 2007 IPCC climate models

(different scenarios)– temperatures– precipitation– sea level rise

• Environmental decision making

• Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis

• Historical and current

• Tools and technology– Seismics– Buoys– Satellites

Restless Earth

Exploring Weather and Climate through Time

• Weather vs. climate

• Time scales– Daily weather– Seasons– El Nino– Global Warming– Glacial/ Interglacial

Real-Time Planet Earth• Updated view of the

planet in near real time• Weather, precip, surface

temp, sea surface temp • NEW: wind speed and

direction, ocean currents, degree-heating weeks, volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunami propagation (more info at Imiloa).

Advisory Group (NOAA, UH)• NOAA

– Bill Thomas, Director of Pacific Services Center– Eileen Shea, Director of Integrated Data and Environmental Applications

Center– Donald Kobayashi, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Island

Fisheries Center– Robert Ballard, National Weather Service, Central Pacific Hurricane

Center– Dr. Nathan Becker, National Weather Service, Pacific Tsunami Warning

Center – Dr. John Barnes, Mauna Loa Observatory

• University of Hawaii at Manoa– Dr. Fred Mackenzie (Department of Oceanography)– Dr. Malia Rivera (Institute of Marine Biology)– Dr. Axel Timmermann (International Pacific Research Center)– Dr. Jim Potemra (International Pacific Research Center)

Kiosk

• Visitor choice• Sphere can be

manipulated• Global vs. local• Mission-oriented• Statistics

compiled

Output to Other Spherical Displays

• Google Earth

• NASA Worldwind

• Magic Planet

Evaluation

• Pacific Resources for Education and Learning

• Formative and summative at Bishop Museum and Imiloa Astronomy Center– Clicker feedback– Kiosk statistics– pre/post program surveys

• Auto-run vs. live programming vs. kiosk-mode

Questions?

• Leon Geschwind

• lgeschwind@bishopmuseum.org

• 808-848-4165