Last summer, Nick van de Giesen, Rolf Hut, and John Selker submitted a position paper about TAHMO and its goals to Wiley. With this publication, they hope to shed more light on the importance of TAHMO’s activities. The entire paper can be found here.
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Sep
Six enthusiastic middle school students at East Junior High in Boise, Idaho, kicked off the TAHMO School-2-School Program at the end of 2013 by forming their very own weather club. Their group, the International Climate Team – East Jr. High, will serve as the first U.S. school in TAHMO’s sister school partnership program. The TAHMO School-2-School (S2S) initiative aims to foster international school partnerships and science education, utilizing on-site automatic climate monitoring technology to collect weather data and allow schools to compare their local environments with partner schools around the world. At East Junior High, students have begun by exploring, testing, wiring, and programming tipping buckets, air temperature sensors, and solar radiation sensors.
08
Sep
Last April, TAHMO was invited to join the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) expo in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This expo featured the latest in climate monitoring technologies, and coincided with the UNDP’s “Multi-Country Support Program to Strengthen Climate Information Systems in Africa”. In its essence a climate change adaptation conference, the event helped connect delegates from African countries with companies that sell climate monitoring technology. TAHMO displayed a 3D printed model of the newest Decagon weather station currently in development, and visitors were impressed by its small size and possibilities. The expo proved to be a very fruitful networking event for TAHMO and resulted in a number of connections that may lead to future collaborations.