Yesterday, however, was a great day as we visited Pulaski High School and brought our friends from the Center for Severe Weather Research with us with their Doppler on Wheels (DOW).
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| Courtesy Jamie Hefti/Pulaski High School |
If you think teenagers don't think science is cool, drive this beastie into their parking lot sometime and you will see their eyes light up. Especially when they go inside.
Sometimes you get lucky with visits like this. If you want to take a bunch of kids outside to learn about snow crystals, it's best if it is snowing very lightly so that it is manageable. That's what we found when we arrived, plus we learned that they had a bunch of small magnifying glasses in the classroom, so we did some crystal identification and some exercises in snow water content (a.k.a., density).
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| Courtesy Jamie Hefti/Pulaski High School |
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| Courtesy Jamie Hefti/Pulaski High School |
Turns out the students were interested in avalanches, so I ended up taking them on a virtual trip to Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon and showed them all that goes on to keep the road open during winter. This was perhaps my only hope of competing with the DOW!
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| Courtesy Jamie Hefti/Pulaski High School |
Back into the field tomorrow. No rest for the weary!
My name is Bonnie Boutelle and I work for a weeklies newspaper in central New York and Pulaski and Sandy Creek are part of our area of circulation. I was wondering if you would like to give the Salmon River News (or our full circulation papers) some comments about your activities in New York, specifically the Tug Hill Plateau.My email is beboutel@yahoo.com. Thank you for your consideration in this.
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