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…

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…

ARM scientists and graduate students visited a classroom at Wagaman Primary School in Darwin during the two-month TWP-ICE field campaign. ARM file photo. 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…

The Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) will host the EarthStorm Weather Institute July 18-21 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. This free four-day workshop will give K-12 teachers an opportunity to investigate weather and improve their skills in preparing students to design and implement science fair projects. For more information, see the EarthStorm website.

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…

With a new school year looming, ARM staff involved in the Education and Outreach Program worked with the ARM communications team to develop and implement an updated Education website. The redesigned website includes updated content and a fresh look to complement the recent ARM website redesign. For continuity, the website still features the familiar faces…

This spring, ARM Education and Outreach helped the local community of Northern New Mexico by judging science fairs with other educators and scientists. Margo Bachman went to the Santo Domingo School of the Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico to assist judging projects from 5, 6, 7 and 8 graders. Tina Summer and Janet Lynch went…

Expanding Your Horizons is a technical career workshop for young women to increase their interest and awareness of math and science and also to provide students an opportunity to meet and develop contacts with women working in traditionally male occupations. This year Janet Lynch and Margo Bachman gave a morning and afternoon presentation on Climate…

Recently the term “coastal erosion” has been popping up in the news, but what does it mean? If you look up the word erosion in the dictionary, it references the root word “erode,” which means to “eat into, wear away, or disintegrate.” So coastal erosion is erosion that occurs along coastlines. With about half of…

People view the new ARM Climate Change Kiosk at the NSA site. ARM file photo. 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,”…