Photos from Previous Open Houses
“The best part for me has always been seeing so many kids being turned on to science!” – Open House attendee
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Slide 1: The remains of tiny fossil plants from land and sea can be viewed under microscopes. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 2: A plankton net of nylon stockings, string and a paper cup is used to fish for plankton. The catch is later analyzed under microscopes. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 3: Kids learn how to build their own plankton nets
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Slide 4: In his “Bathtub Science” demonstration, geophysicist Marc Spiegelman shows how cornstarch mixed with water, like rocks at different depths, can be solid enough to dance on but also viscous enough to flow. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 5: The goopy consistency of cornstarch and water is a popular draw for kids. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 6: Bathtub science
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Slide 7: In tray after tray, some 20,000 sediment cores from every sea and ocean on earth fill the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 8: Scientists are on hand to discuss recently published research. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 9: The borehole research group
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Slide 10: Examining aquatic organisms
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Slide 11: researcher explaining aquatic organisms to group of people
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Slide 12: Examples of the three types of rock found on earth—igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary—are on display for visitors to see and touch. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 13: In the rock touching room
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Slide 14: In the rock touching room
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Slide 15: parent picks up child
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Slide 16: In “Sounds of Seismology," Ben Holtzman speeds up recordings of earthquakes to let visitors experience how sound waves travel through the planet and across its surface. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 17: In a simulation of Strombolian eruptions, visitors increase gas pressure inside a volcano by blowing into a tube and forcing magma out of the cone. Photo by Wade Martzall
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Slide 18: Ping pong and Wiffle balls stand in for lapilli and volcanic bombs in other eruption demonstrations. Here, visitors restock the next “trash can” eruption. Photo by Wade Martzall.
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Slide 19: Playing in the lily pond
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Slide 20: Drawing a map
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Slide 21: children play on laptops
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Slide 22: group of attendees and Open House poster
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Slide 23: In the Core Repository visitors get a chance to examine different types of sediment from the world’s oceans and learn about the Earth’s past.
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Slide 24: Students examine microfossils (shells of plankton) found in deep-sea sediments.
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Slide 25: The Hyperwall in the Core Repository displays short videos about Earth and its climate.
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Slide 26: Racks of sediment cores dominate in one of three lockers in the Core Repository.
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Slide 27: A beautiful display of microfossil images by Dee Breger in the Core Repository.
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Slide 28: Curator Nichole Anest explains how a series of sediment cores provide evidence for the impact theory of the mass extinction ~65 million years ago.
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Slide 29: A group of local boy scouts learn how sediment cores and microfossils teach us about events in Earth’s history.
