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EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 2006 IRIS 5-YEAR PROPOSAL Global Seismicity Monitor as an Interactive Museum Display Carolyn Rebbert • Bruce Museum of Arts and Science Louise Palmer • Independent Curator The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Connecticut, developed the family-friendly exhibition Great Women, Great Science that was on display from August 14, 2004 – April 10, 2005. Interactive displays engaged visitors in learning the science behind the discoveries of four prominent scientists from the first half of the 20th century. One of the most successful and popular displays was in the section featuring Danish geophysicist Inge Lehman. IRIS designed a website that provided visually attractive displays of global seismic events and is updated every 20 minutes. The site also provided information on past events both globally and locally, and provided a view of the seismic trace recorded by a local station. Visitors accessed the information through a touch screen where they could select the desired view. Within a given screen, touching a particular earthquake event produced a pop-up banner with data on the quake. The programmers at IRIS adjusted the design to make it fit our visitorʼs needs, coached us in adjusting the settings on our monitor, and all within our rather tight schedule. They were also available for consultation throughout the run of the exhibition, provided educational materials for our teacher workshop, and listened to our suggestions for some museumfriendly design changes. During the run of the exhibition, approximately 67,000 visitors came to the museum. The museum lead 25 tours of the exhibition for a total of 404 visitors including secondgrade girl scouts, other elementary and middle school student groups, and high school, college and adult groups. We plan on incorporating the touch-screen display in our permanent science gallery. 198
2006 IRIS 5-YEAR PROPOSAL EDUCATION AND OUTREACH IRIS/USGS Seismology Displays at the American Museum of Natural History, New York Edmond A. Mathez • American Museum of Natural History IRIS has become an important partner with the American Museum of Natural History in educating students and the public alike about earthquakes. There are two venues in which this education takes place. The first is in the Hall of Planet Earth, a permanent exhibit that opened in June, 1999. A significant proportion of the approximately 4.0 M people that visit the museum each year see HOPE, which therefore has an important influence on how the public understands our planet. HOPE was conceived as an educational exhibit. This means, for example, that information is presented in layers of differing sophistication, allowing accessibility to a wide audience. Also, the local k-12 earth science curriculum was partially restructured around the exhibit content. As a result, HOPE is used extensively by school groups, including undergraduate university students. HOPE was planned before the IRIS/USGS seismology display was available. Two years ago, with IRIS support, HOPE was retrofitted with the seismology display. Since it is presented in the context of the larger science, we sense that the display has been particularly effective in transmitting its message that earthquakes are part of the larger workings of the Earth. The display has also attracted the attention of the news media, and has served as a backdrop in our attempts to explain current events, such as the Sumatra- Andaman earthquake and accompanying tsunami. A nearly identical IRIS/USGS seismology display exists in the Discovery Room at AMNH. The Discovery Room is a permanent interactive exhibit that offers families, especially children between the ages of five and twelve, the opportunity to engage in the process of science. Children (accompanied by adults) explore an array of puzzles, games, artifacts, and specimens. These offer scientific challenges but also serve as gateways to the rest of the Museum. The IRIS/USGS display constitutes an important part of Earth science activities in the Room. The drums were installed at the eye level of grade school children, who are fascinated to learn that the pens they see moving are “taking the pulse” of the Earth. Older visitors are drawn to the screen showing the changing map and the color print of the tectonic plates beside it. After they have studied the display or heard an explanation by the Discovery Room staff, single visitors often run off to bring the rest of their party to see. Those visitors then become the explainers for others. Visitors have been fascinated by the Indian Ocean tsunami data and ongoing disturbances near Sumatra. On the bulletin board beside the drums is a 17 March New York Times article discussing the work of seismologists after the tsunami, including the speculation that another large quake could follow the December one. The drum sheets showing the M8.7 quake that occurred eleven days later are posted below. Other educational additions are a notebook of IRIS information sheets (“one pagers”), such as “Why do earthquakes happen?”; childrenʼs books on earthquakes; a slinky that staff use to illustrate P and S wave motion; and a diagram showing how to find the epicenter of a quake by triangulation. Over 100k visitors have used the Discovery Room each year since it opened in June, 2001. 199
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