CIMSS Partners with Aldo Leopold Nature Center
The Aldo Leopold Nature Center (ALNC) in Monona recently acquired a NOAA Science On a Sphere (SOS) exhibit in their state of the art new facility. The timing couldn't be more perfect, as the CIMSS EarthNow project was recently launched. EarthNow will provide timely weather and climate connection stories and data visualizations to the SOS Network (over 80 installations around the world).
By having an SOS exhibit nearby, we now have the ability to test stories and visualizations on the suspended 6-foot diameter spherical display.
As part of the new partnership, CIMSS' Patrick Rowley used the SOS experience he gained at Nauticus (a maritime science and industry museum in Norfolk, VA) to conduct an "SOS 101" session for ALNC's education staff and volunteers. Further, Patrick Rowley and Margaret Mooney will be using SOS to discuss recent global climate analyses at WICCI's (Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts) upcoming meeting at ALNC on 01 December 2011.
CIMSS and ALNC are also working together to create an SOS lecture series to start in the spring.
Submitted by: CIMSS Outreach
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