NOAA and San Francisco's Exploratorium
have announced a five-year partnership to bring cutting-edge climate and ocean science to the public. Collaborating with NOAA scientists, including some from the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, the Exploratorium will develop interactive experiences to help explain and illustrate dynamic scientific discoveries.
“Some of society's biggest environmental challenges are the most difficult to convey and comprehend,” said Dennis Bartels, Ph.D., executive director of the Exploratorium. “This partnership will give the Exploratorium a direct connection to NOAA science, so together we can engage the public in these challenges.”
Known as a leader in hands-on informal education, the Exploratorium will take public audiences on an ocean journey from surface to bottom in real-time as if they were aboard NOAA’s high-tech ship, the Okeanos Explorer. Follow-on projects will bring NOAA’s advanced research, ocean, weather and climate science to the public with the Exploratorium developing interactive experiences to engage the public on some of the most critical environmental science issues of the day.
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