Highlights of Lamont Open House 2022
More than 1,500 visitors of all ages came to visit on Saturday, October 8 open the door at Columbia Climate School Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryThere, they played with glacial slime, watched trash cans spew water and ping pong balls, and conducted hands-on science experiments—all while learning how Lamont researchers can help us better understand our planet, from the ocean floor to the atmosphere. superior. Here are some highlights from Open Day 2022.
#LamontOpenHouse came back! !The famous exploding trash can #volcano! #lamontrocks @LamontEarth pic.twitter.com/OhpaLKm5yJ
— Dr. Maureen Raymo (@moraymo) October 8, 2022
Hands-on learning about microplastics in water. Photo: Kyu Lee
A child is testing an important survival gear, often called a “Gumby” set because of its resemblance to a children’s toy.Photo: Olga Rukovic
huge nerd moment visit @CoreRepository exist @LamontEarth today. Millions of years of biogeochemical history are stored and translated through science. It doesn’t get any cooler than this. pic.twitter.com/ky4Z4i4GpQ
– Erin Maybach (@ErinMaybach) October 8, 2022
New York State Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick attended the meeting. Here he is with Maureen Raymo, director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate Institute.Photo: Janice Savage
Senator Reichlin-Melnick learns about ice with Christine McCarthy.Photo: Janice Savage
The slimy “oobleck” helps to show how the glacier flows.Photo: Sarah Fichte
The most common ash cone volcano model in the world.Photo: Tara Spinelli
Above: Volcanologist Einat Lev and her colleagues share incredible high-resolution drone footage of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption.
PhD student Caroline Juang shares some of her work promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM fields. Read more about her work. Photo: Olga Ruskovets
Artist and scientist Caroline Juang poses with several of her works on display.Photo: Sarah Fichte
A balloon that pops underwater shows how a hydrophone can record sound underwater. (Watch a computer screen to see peak sound levels.) By firing sound waves at the ocean floor and measuring how they are reflected, Lamont scientists were able to explore what the ocean floor looked like and see the rock formations below.
big girl fangirling @OceanCarbon + @LeapStc @LamontEarth (“She’s a scientist. She knows physics. And the ocean. Where dolphins live!”)
Great day out, be inspired.#WhoRunTheWorld#GurlsWhoScience#climatescience#LamontRocks pic.twitter.com/bCrPsqMRDi
— Katherine (@mcestoppel) October 9, 2022
Martin Stewart’s lecture on converting carbon dioxide to stone was packed.Photo: Caroline Adelman
Glaciologist Indrani Das and her team demonstrated real-world equipment for studying the structure of a glacier down to its underlying bedrock.Photo: Sarah Fichte
An installation showing earth-based building techniques, from Farm to Building Project Design Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Conservation and Planning.Photo: Sarah Fichte
Templates help teach kids about the different types of leaves.Photo: Tara Spinelli
Visitors brought soil and paint samples from their homes and communities for lead testing by Lex van Geen and his students.Photo: Tara Spinelli
A poster showing how surface temperatures have increased since the 1850s.Photo: Suzanne Camargo
In a new exhibit, the Tempestry Project shares how they turned climate data into impactful knitted visualizations.Photo: Elizabeth Sidor
A long tapestry shows global temperatures from AD 1 (left) to modern times.Photo: Sarah Fichte
Each row in this created by the Tempestry Project represents a year of temperature data starting at 1 AD. Mind you, things heat up quickly as we get closer to the modern age. Beads near the bottom mark appear every 50 years.Video: Sarah Fichte
Choosing strings of different colors, visitors made their own temperature reconstructions (see below).Photo: Sarah Fichte
Photo: Elizabeth Sidor
Photo: Sarah Fichte
Open day favorite: A trash can volcano, which showcases the most violent eruption, also known as the Pliny eruption. Photo: Olga Ruskovets
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me 20,000 people attended @LamontEarth and @columbiaclimate During the LDEO Open Day, they witnessed plankton swimming, volcanoes erupted, heard earthquakes, learned how trees tell stories and more. pic.twitter.com/4GaFGLRbI5
— Joaquim_Goes (@Joaquim_Goes) October 9, 2022
