Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental SciencesCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder
A GSL team, 100th SOS installation
Profiles
People
Shilpi Gupta, Hilary Peddicord, Beth Russell
Year Awarded
2015
Type
Medal: Bronze
Affiliation
GSL
Geography
CIRES
CIRES staff in ESRL’s Global Systems Laboratory, were part of a NOAA team honored with a DOC Bronze Medal for achieving the 100th worldwide installation of Science On a Sphere®. SOS is a room-sized, global display system that uses computers and video projectors to display planetary data onto a six-foot-diameter sphere, analogous to a giant animated globe. Images of swirling atmospheric storms, climate change, and ocean temperature can be shown on the sphere to explain environmental processes, which can be complex, in a way that is intuitive and captivating.