{"id":1750,"date":"2016-05-19T17:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2017-02-09T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:44:58","slug":"canada-wide-science-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Canada-wide Science Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1747\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4862.jpg 374w, http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4862-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I was the departmental coordinator for the Canada-wide Science Festival, which was held at McGill this year. Geared at high school students it is also a great outreach opportunity for university departments to provide information to prospective students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4868.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1746\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4868.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4868-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Things got quite crowded during the day with the weather in a tank set-up being a magnet for students and teachers alike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4861-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4861-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4861-2.jpg 374w, http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/wp-uploads\/img_4861-2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A can of ice is placed in a rotating water tank. The temperature gradient together with the rotation creates flows (visualized with food coloring) that are strikingly similar to atmospheric patterns in the mid-latitudes, where the temperature gradient is caused by the warm regions near the equator and the cold poles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There was also a display about how melting sea ice does not contribute to sea-level rise, but melting glaciers do. We also demonstrated the sea ice albedo effect with a lamp and thermometers placed near black and white paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the departmental coordinator for the Canada-wide Science Festival, which was held at McGill this year. Geared at high school students it is also a great outreach opportunity for university departments to provide information to prospective students.&nbsp; Things got quite crowded during the day with the weather in a tank set-up being a magnet &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/?p=1750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada-wide Science Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}