Outreach
Education and Community Engagement
We are eager to share our excitement for climate and geophysical fluid dynamics whenever possible. The Scripps Community Outreach for Public Education program provides opportunities for group members to participate in public outreach, including school visits and other community engagement events. We also have connections with several other San Diego-based educational outreach organizations, and have presented at local venues including Birch Aquarium and the Torrey Pines Docent Society Speaker Series Program.
We were thrilled to recently receive NSF support to purchase two HT3 DIYnamics tanks for outreach events, and are currently co-ordinating the first of these with Birch Aquarium. During the COVID lockdown we were able to secure LEGO DIYnamics kits for Spanish-language Zoom demonstrations at the Colonia La Esperanza school in Tijuana, Mexico.
Please get in touch if you are interested in organizing outreach or community engagement events together. We are currently able to support events in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin Chinese.
Emerald Tutu
The Emerald Tutu is an NSF-funded research project working to design and implement biomass-based coastal protection infrastructure for urban areas such as East Boston, Massachusetts. A floating network of interconnected, anchored massive organic growing modules dampens wave energy and reduces flooding, storm damage, and erosion on shore while improving nearshore water quality. These biomass modules are seeded with marsh grass at the surface, and are home to many seaweeds below the waterline, all of which add significant mass and frictional surface area and provide habitat for many types of creatures, human and non-human.
Collaborations with artists
Outside of research, we enjoy working on projects at the intersection of art and climate science. Examples include taking part in Exchanges with artists Michael Wang and Aki Sasamoto for Art in America, being a panelist for a discussion at Cooper Union Climate Week and collaborating with the slCollective architecture studio.
Michael Wang JEFF KOONS, Diamond (Blue), 2005-06, CARBON COPY, 2012.
Paper, colored pencil, glue, -7.64 tons CO2 Courtesy of the artist