{"id":70667,"date":"2002-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-geologist-tracking-cosmic-dust-with-help-of-local-teachers\/"},"modified":"2002-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-geologist-tracking-cosmic-dust-with-help-of-local-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/10\/uri-geologist-tracking-cosmic-dust-with-help-of-local-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 geologist tracking “cosmic dust” with help of local teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — October 10, 2002 — Every day tiny particles from meteorites fall to Earth and come to rest in backyards, schoolyards, parking lots and abandoned lots. In fact, according to Daniel Murray, a professor of geosciences at the 溏心vlog免费B站, “every night you\u2019re likely to find one on the hood of your car and on every other surface the size of the hood of your car. That\u2019s how the planet accumulates material.” <\/p>\n

\tWith the help of local middle and high school teachers and a grant from NASA and the Eisenhower Foundation, Murray and his colleague Jim Sammons are tracking these cosmic dust particles and other materials that travel around the globe on Earth\u2019s weather patterns. <\/p>\n

\tFor the last two summers, Murray and Sammons have offered workshops to teach local science teachers how to collect, analyze and identify micrometeorites and other cosmic dust. They hope to recruit hundreds of teachers around the country to their effort, eventually posting their findings to a website and comparing the patterns of what they find with global weather patterns. <\/p>\n

\t“This activity will provide my students with the opportunity to conduct real science in the classroom, not just canned, known-outcome book labs,” said South Kingstown High School science teacher Kristin Klenk. “Kids at this age think that we — teachers, scientists — have all the answers. The idea that no one has all the answers will be one of the biggest learning experiences in this project. If we had all the answers why would anyone conduct research? We dont know what we\u2019ll find.” <\/p>\n

\tOther teachers from South Kingstown, North Kingstown, Narragansett, Exeter, Providence, Middletown, Portsmouth and West Warwick have also participated in the workshops and learned how to incorporate the lesson into their science curriculum. <\/p>\n

\tThe activity was the brainchild of Sammons, a retired Jamestown teacher who now develops innovative science programs for educators. “I\u2019m always looking at science topics that get short shrift in middle and high school science classes,” he said. “Astronomy is one of those topics where, after learning the names of the planets, most schools don\u2019t get into any of the more detailed processes. Recently there has been tremendous improvement in the understanding of micrometeorites, so I started wondering how easy it would be to catch one of them. And it turned out to be very easy. The program grew from there to an open-ended investigation.” <\/p>\n

\tMurray said that micrometeorites aren\u2019t the only dust that students are likely to collect in their science lesson. Soot from power plants, pollen from trees and plants, and bug parts are also commonly collected, among many other things. <\/p>\n

Last year Murray and Sammons traced a dust storm in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and found that dust particles found their way to the eastern United States in just two weeks. Dust from the Sahara Desert in North Africa commonly blows across the Atlantic Ocean and ends up on the eastern seaboard as well.
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\nTeachers interested in learning more about Murray\u2019s workshops and his cosmic dust activities can contact him at 874-2197 or dpmurray@uri.edu.
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\nMedia Contact: Todd McLeish 874-7892\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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