Dr. Nathalie Zilberman visited a French high school class in Grossmont, CA during September 2015 where she used her native French to talk about Argo floats. She brought a demo SOLO-II Argo float to help explain how floats work. Here is where Grossmont is located:
Science and Society Honors Seminar at UC San Diego
Revelle College, which is one of the undergraduate colleges with UC San Diego, runs an Honors Seminar each quarter for high achievers among Revelle Freshmen. The theme for fall quarter 2015 was “Science and Society”, with different guest presenters each week. In the final week (December 1, 2015), Prof Sarah Gille brought along the Scripps demonstration version of a SOLO-II … Read More
Measuring the Ocean – Ocean observations and our life
On Saturday March 26th, 2016 a workshop was held by at Tohoku University, Sendai. The workshop had the title “Measuring the Ocean – Ocean observations and our life” and was sponsored by the Graduate School of Science and the International Research Institute for Disaster Science, both at Tohoku University. The event took place on one day only in the Aoba … Read More
Sea Days at Birch Aquarium
On October 21st, 2017 scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography did an outreach event at the Birch Aquarium for the general public. Nathalie Zilberman, Sarah Purkey and Megan Scanderbeg brought a sample Deep Argo SOLO float, LEGO Argo float models, and posters on Argo to the Birch Aquarium for visitors to see and learn about Argo. The animation produced by the … Read More
Ocean Warming: why it is happening, how we know it is happening and how technology can help the scientific community to clarify the different aspects of ocean warming
In January 2019, Daniela Faggiani-dias taught a middle school class in San Diego, CA about ocean warming using an Argo float. Her talk entitled ‘Ocean Warming: why it is happening, how we know it is happening and how technology can help the scientific community to clarify the different aspects of ocean warming’, was part of outreach activities sponsored by Stay Cool … Read More