Regional Events

Upcoming Events in Your Area

Colorado

Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to do about it

Speaker: Dr. Robert Glennon, University of Arizona

When: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7pm

Where: Tivoli Student Union Turnhalle Room, University of Colorado Denver

Visit NCAR's Mesa Lab

NCAR's Mesa Lab, located at the west end of Table Mesa Drive in Boulder, Colorado, is a working research laboratory that welcomes the public seven days a week. Admission is free. The building and the adjacent weather trail are both wheelchair-accessible. The inspiring setting is worth a visit in itself. We maintain the site as a nature preserve. Mule deer, fox, and other wildlife range over the area and adjoining mountain parks. NCAR's laboratory offers a wealth of hands-on educational exhibits that visitors are welcome to explore on their own, on a tour, or with an audiotour.

Kansas

Half Pint Science at Union Station Kansas City

On Thursdays the Union Station has science activities geared toward children ages three through six. Activities are hands on and include make-and-take projects. Each month there is a new theme, but no two weeks are the same. For more information please click here.

75th Anniversary of the Republican River Flood

May 30, 2010 will be the 75th Anniversary of the Republican River Flood that occurred in Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado. The National Weather Service in Goodland, KS is planning a special program to commemorate this event. Do you have a story about the flood that you would like to share? If so, please contact Joy Hayden at 785-899-6412 or by email at joy.hayden@noaa.gov.

Nebraska

Climate change, vertebrate fossils, and human history in Southeast Alaska

Speaker: Dr. Timothy Heaton, University of South Dakota

When: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 3:30pm

Where: 117 Bessey Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Future Exhibit: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

The earth sustains us, protects us, and makes life possible; but it also humbles us with its dramatic power. Created by The Field Museum, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters explores natural disasters through stunning displays, state-of-the-art animations, poignant, large-scale images, and cultural artifacts that reveal the dynamic relationship we have with the Earth.

Visitors are in for a memorable and powerful experience. They can witness what it's like to stand inside a roaring tornado; trigger an underwater earthquake and simulate a tsunami; create a virtual volcano; touch and examine real rock and lava specimens that tell of past geologic events; discover how people adapt to living at risk; and be inspired by the resiliency of disaster survivors.

This hands-on exhibit allows visitors to interact with four types of disasters and see the effects first-hand. Visitors can learn about the more than 100,000 earthquakes that occur across the globe each year through an interactive display that allows them to manipulate real-time earthquake data, such as location, time, magnitude, and depth. To delve deeper into the forces behind tsunamis, Nature Unleashed lets visitors trigger a virtual underwater earthquake to see how a tsunami develops and spreads around the globe. One of the highlights of the exhibit is an engaging interactive display that lets visitors control levels of gas and silica in a volcano's magma to create their own virtual volcanic eruption.

The exhibition stresses that storms, volcanoes and other forces of nature are completely natural phenomena. Whether they're disasters or not depends on the choices we make. Nature Unleashed examines how we can prepare for, and in some cases minimize, the impact of nature's fury.

The exhibition organized and developed by The Field Museum, will be on display at The Durham Museum May 22 through September 6, 2010.