{"id":63238,"date":"2010-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduate-school-of-oceanography-to-host-saturday-afternoon-science-festival-june-26\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduate-school-of-oceanography-to-host-saturday-afternoon-science-festival-june-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/06\/uri-graduate-school-of-oceanography-to-host-saturday-afternoon-science-festival-june-26\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography to host \u2018Saturday Afternoon Science\u2019 festival, June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTours of labs and Inner Space Center, science talks, hands-on demos<\/p>\n


\n\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 June 10, 2010 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host an afternoon of science fun featuring tours of the Inner Space Center and other research facilities, presentations about oceanographic research, demonstrations of scientific equipment, and much more on Saturday, June 26 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus in Narragansett.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cSaturday Afternoon Science at the Bay Campus will provide the public with a brief glimpse at the important and exciting research that we do here, and give Rhode Islanders an opportunity to chat with scientists and engineers about our activities,\u201d said Helen Czerski, a 溏心vlog免费B站 postdoctoral fellow and organizer of the event.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cScience research can often appear mysterious and complicated, so this event is intended to bring it out into the open and make it more accessible,\u201d added David Farmer, dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography. \u201cWe will be opening the doors to some of our wonderfully exciting facilities that few non-scientists ever get a chance to see.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAmong the many facilities that will be open to visitors will be the Inner Space Center, which will show live pictures of explorer Robert Ballard\u2019s research expedition in the Black Sea; the nuclear science center, a nuclear reactor used for scientific research; the Cap\u2019n Bert, a research ship that will display the marine life it catches during its weekly trawl in Narragansett Bay; the rock and core facility, where marine geologists study seafloor sediments; and the research aquarium where fish are raised for a wide variety of studies.<\/p>\n


\n\tSix short presentations by oceanographers will be offered throughout the afternoon about exciting research topics, including \u201cMonster Waves of the Deep\u201d by David Farmer; \u201cThirty Days Amongst the Ice in the Bering Sea\u201d by Ted Durbin; \u201cMysteries of Volcanic Ash\u201d by Steven Carey; and \u201cSecrets of Narragansett Bay\u201d by Tatiana Rynearson.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition, scientists and graduate students will fill the quadrangle with demonstrations of scientific equipment and illustrations of their research. Visitors will be able to look into microscopes to observe Narragansett Bay\u2019s tiniest creatures, learn how scientists use liquid nitrogen to measure the age of microfossils; and observe the release of a weather balloon to collect data on atmospheric ozone. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe center of operations for the festival will be the Nautilus Caf\u00e9, located at the ground level of the Ocean Science and Exploration Center at the entrance to the Bay Campus, where visitors can find maps and timetables of events for the afternoon.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor additional information about the event, visit http:\/\/www.gso.uri.edu\/saturday-science<\/a> or call Helen Czerski at 401-874-6506.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tours of labs and Inner Space Center, science talks, hands-on demos NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 June 10, 2010 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 will host an afternoon of science fun featuring tours of the Inner Space Center and other research facilities, presentations about oceanographic research, demonstrations of scientific equipment, and much more on Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}