Projects from the DeArmond Makerspace, Price Science Commons, and Dean Walton
We are quite lucky here at the University of Oregon to have a node of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The colleagues here are wonderful and always willing to help explain the seismic activity...
It would be difficult to miss news about the recent Ridgecrest earthquakes in California that erupted on the Fourth of July. Five days later there have been hundreds of smaller earthquakes in same...
Seismic data from today’s 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador. Our seismometers (one in the Price Science Commons) picked up the 2:17 am quake signal at about 2:27 am PST, so about 10 minutes later. ...
Although, it might be too late to attend today’s Shake Alert conference for educators, you might want to track on the link and conversation. The University of Oregon’s Earth Science Department is a...
In an early post we wrote about a project where we helped science teachers from around our community build sensitive, yet inexpensive, seismometers based on a kid’s slinky and some neodymium magnets. Here...
As educators interested in outreach, we do outreach where we can. For the last four years we have helped host an educational outreach booth at the Oregon Country Fair where we show off maps...
We work closely with the University of Oregon’s STEM CORE Program and here we have partnered with them (under the direction of Bryan Rebar and Dean Livelybrooks) to host a workshop on building Slinky...