For seven years, the Cool Science program has shown that children's artwork is effective in teaching adults in the Lowell area about climate science.
Now, thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, Cool Science is expanding to include other Merrimack Valley cities and towns, the Worcester metropolitan area, Topeka, Kan., and the Kansas City metropolitan area, which includes Kansas City, Mo. That way, researchers can test whether it's equally effective in another region with different extreme weather concerns.
"It's Cool Science on steroids," says Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier , associate professor of education and co-principal investigator on the grant.
Cool Science began in 2012 as a research collaboration between Lohmeier, the late Assoc. Prof. of Education David Lustick and Bob Chen , a professor of oceanography who was just named interim dean of UMass Boston's School for the Environment! Cool Science Expands with $3 Million NSF Grant - uml.edu www.uml.edu /News/stories/2019/ Cool - Science -Grant.aspx For seven years, the Cool Science contest has asked children to communicate climate science through art, with the winning works displayed on Lowell buses. A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will expand Cool Science in Massachusetts and add two metropolitan areas in the Midwest.!! Stephen Mishol , an associate professor of art at UMass Lowell, joined the project first to help judge the artwork, and then later as a co-principal investigator.
While you're here, how about this:
Physics Nobel honors architect of modern cosmology, discoverers of other worlds | Science | AAAS
The universe is just 5% visible matter, something that Princeton University cosmologist James Peebles foresaw.
Peebles's many theoretical predictions have proved prescient. For starters, in 1965 he predicted the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago should have left an afterglow, radiation that would have stretched to microwave wavelengths as the universe expanded! Cool Science program expands with $3 million NSF grant ...cool - ...expands - 3 - ...grant For seven years, the Cool Science program has shown that children's artwork is effective in teaching adults in the Lowell area about climate science . Now, thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, Cool Science is expanding to include other Merrimack Valley cities and towns, the Worcester metropolitan area, Topeka, Kan., and the Kansas City metropolitan area, which includes ...!! That cosmic microwave background (CMB) was discovered the same year and has proved invaluable for deciphering the universe. "He was the guy in the early days," says Joseph Silk, a cosmologist the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom! McKinnons give $3 million to expand science at SFI | Santa ...3 - million - expand - science -sfi In one of the largest gifts in the nonprofit's history, Ian and Sonnet McKinnon have donated $3 million to expand fundamental research at the Santa Fe Institute. The gift, deposited in a single installment, will support core SFI science activities, in particular the highly diverse working groups and workshops that are the hallmark of SFI's collaborative approach to the challenges of ...!! He "put the physics into cosmology."
Others had suggested an afterglow; Peebles laid bare the details. He showed how its temperature is pinned down by the abundance of light elements in the cosmos! College of Education - University of Massachusetts Lowell www.uml.edu /education For seven years, the Cool Science contest has asked children to communicate climate science through art, with the winning works displayed on Lowell buses. A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will expand Cool Science in Massachusetts and add two metropolitan areas in the Midwest.!! He also predicted that the sloshing interplay between radiation, ordinary matter, and dark matter—the invisible stuff that was already thought to hold the galaxies together—would cause the temperature of the CMB to vary from point to point across the sky. Those tiny fluctuations were eventually spotted by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, which launched in 1989.
Cool Science: Shooting off rockets fuelled with ethanol | Watch News Videos Online
It’s always a fun morning when we get to play with fire-- High school chemistry teacher Michael Ng demonstrates how rockets work using ethanol, as explained in the book and movie “October Sky.”
A cool alternative to air conditioning | EurekAlert-- Science News
VIDEO: The team have manufactured a polymer film that could be used to cool buildings without using electricity. view more
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A low-cost passive cooling technology made from a polymer film could be used to passively cool buildings in metropolitan areas, avoiding the need for electricity.
Modern air conditioning systems consume significant amounts of energy to cool buildings during the daytime, generating significant amounts of greenhouse gases responsible for climate change! Heffernans expand fellowships with additional $3-million ...expand ...3 - million -gift A new $3 - million gift to the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering builds on their passion for entrepreneurship. This latest gift expands post-graduate fellowships and brings the Heffernans' giving to the Faculty to a remarkable $9.6 million .!! For example, air conditioning accounts for around 15 percent of total primary energy consumption in the United States and can be as high as 70 percent in extremely hot countries like Saudi Arabia.
Technologies that use radiative cooling to control the temperature of buildings, such as planar multilayered photonic films and hybrid metamaterial films, are attracting considerable attention because they do not use electricity; however, they are complicated and costly to manufacture.
Other things to check out:
How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust - The New York Times
Extraterrestrial events — the collision of faraway black holes, a comet slamming into Jupiter — evoke wonder on Earth but rarely a sense of local urgency. By and large, what happens in outer space stays in outer space.
A study published Wednesday in Science Advances offered a compelling exception to that rule. A team of researchers led by Birger Schmitz, a nuclear physicist at Lund University in Sweden, found that a distant, ancient asteroid collision generated enough dust to cause an ice age long ago on Earth. The study lends new insight to ongoing efforts to address climate change.
Earth is frequently exposed to extraterrestrial matter; 40,000 tons of the stuff settle on the planet every year, enough to fill 1,000 tractor-trailers. But 466 million years ago, a 93-mile-wide asteroid collided with an unknown, fast-moving object between Mars and Jupiter. The crash increased the amount of dust arriving on Earth for the next two million years by a factor of 10,000. Dr. Schmitz, Dr. Heck and their team found that the dust triggered cooling in Earth's atmosphere that led to an ice age.
Chevron donates supplies to local elementary school - KYMA
YUMA - Chevron partnered with Donorschoose.org and donated supplies to Pueblo Elementary School Monday.
The event is part of Chevron's fuel your school program which happens every year to help fund classroom materials.
The funds for this project are raised in the local community Chevron and Texaco stations, where during the month of October Chevron donated $1 and up to $120,000 per every 8 gallons of gas.
The program provided students with up to $1,275 worth of STEM learning supplies in order to inspire learning.
Science teacher Ms. Figueroa was the one who applied for Chevron to be able to donate these items.
The students were excited to be provided with material for hands-on learning in their science class.
An I'm just gonna preempt the complainers. No, it does not in any way take away from the cool science represented b… https://t.co/bRRYIGyvBa mbeisen (from 37° 14′ 6″ N, 115° 48′ 40″ W) Mon Oct 07 14:08:02 +0000 2019
Happy Birthday @NASA! While we keep our feet planted on public lands, we share your love of science & discovery. Al… https://t.co/KYjlrLaMFO Interior (from Washington, DC) Tue Oct 01 18:59:28 +0000 2019
This is such a great point. If every single climate activist, scientist and communicator boycotted cars, planes, el… https://t.co/ZRGsMcpNSw KetanJ0 (from Oslo, Norway (via Australia)) Sun Oct 06 13:01:51 +0000 2019
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