Fwd: [COPUS News] FREE Understanding Science Flowchart posters, weather, climate, and more!

[Kevin Saldanha]

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Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Subject: [COPUS News] FREE Understanding Science Flowchart posters, weather, climate, and more!
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Highlights from the August Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science newsletter, the COPUS Clarion, (available online at http://www.yearofscience2009.org/about/COPUS-Clarion-August2009.pdf)

1. Two awesome opportunities!

FREE Understanding Science flowchart poster!!  Thanks to a generous contribution from DEJANSEO in Australia we are able to give away free posters to help rev up Year of Science for an exciting fall!   Sign up using this form (http://yearofscience2009.wufoo.com/forms/understanding-science-poster-giveaway/) to receive copies of the poster.  The cool grassroots twist is that in signing up, we will send you 11 posters -- so that you can share them with your friends and family, schools, libraries, and museums!  (Quantities are limited.  Posters will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.)

Zine-a-thon Contest --  trying to figure out what to do with the remaining lazy days of summer? As you sit poolside contemplating all things science, why not design your Zine (the mini - magazine that packs science in the palm of your hand)! Don't forget that there will be fabulous prizes for winning submissions.  The deadline is November 1.  http://www.yearofscience2009.org/about/zine-contest.html

2. This month Year of Science participants are celebrating Weather and Climate!

In this month's pages you can:

• Read blog posts by Meteorologist Robert Henson, who is a science writer at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Bob's interest in weather and climate was stoked by the tornadoes, dust storms, and vivid sunsets he witnessed in his childhood hometown of Oklahoma City.
  
• Visit the Fun Zone to take the Weather Channel's Golf Simulation test or solve weather slider puzzles.
• Read about five weather/climate scientists and ask them questions.
• Get Involved in Weather and Climate! Citizen science asks countless individuals to contribute their observations of a particular thing -- birds, frogs, flowers and, as you'll see, much more -- to a central database, which trained scientists analyze.

AND TONS MORE... http://www.yearofscience2009.org/themes_weather_climate/celebrate/

3. Featured Programs from the COPUS Clarion: Have you hugged your local broadcast meteorologist today?
 
Sara Espinoza, Program Director, and Ann Posegate, Outreach Coordinator, both for Weather & Environment at the National Environmental Education Foundation, encourage each of us to get to know our local meteorologists.  Even in a wired era when many have Internet access in their pockets, the most common source for the weather forecast remains television, making local broadcast meteorologists prominent community figures. Increasingly, broadcast meteorologists in the U.S. are taking on the role of "station scientist," covering a range of important weather, environment and climate topics for their viewers. Learn more by reading this month's Clarion:
http://www.yearofscience2009.org/about/COPUS-Clarion-August2009.pdf

4. Don't forget to check out August's downloadable resources:

- One Page handout highlighting the Weather and Climate theme of the Year of Science, which can be used in your business, classroom, library, museum, facility.  One side is blank for your own organizational YoS message!
http://www.yearofscience2009.org/themes_weather_climate/YoS09AugustOnePage.pdf
- Understanding Science Flow Chart as an 18" x 24" poster. http://www.yearofscience2009.org/about/us_poster_vert_1_13.pdf

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