•A Museum that started to be build without own facilities.

•Recognition of importance of offering distinctive learning opportunities.•Experience in outreach programs:

•Challenge Workshop •Olympiads on Brazilian History

Exploratory Science Museum

www.mc.unicamp.br

Citizen Meteorologist

Challenge Workshop

Olympiads on Brazilian History

Context of Citizen Meteorologist Program

•A large country with large socio-economical disparities.

•An educational system with the worst performance in comparative assessment.

•A big concern with climate problems •Educational programs focused on

indoctrination and behavior

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Meteorology Program

•Permanent exhibition;•A professional analogical

meteorological station;•Citizen Meteorologist : outreach

program.

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Data Collection Goals of theCitizen Meteorologist Program

•To collect weather data contributed by citizens;

•To collect data related to cities micro-climate;

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Educational Goals of the Citizen Meteorologist Program:

•Involve fundamental and high school students in long term learning of

meteorological issues;•To provide to collectors a feedback

capable to promote the understanding of:•Relations among meteorological variables;•Impact of urbanization on micro-climate.

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Standard School Weather Station

Development of a low cost standard weather station including:

• Meteorological shelter•Thermometer (temperatures)

•Barometer (air pressure)•Anemometer (wind speed and direction)

•Hygrometer (humidity)•Rain Gauge (precipitation)

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Decentralized administration

•Local coordinators at each city can:•Subscribe new teams

•Support and teams at their work•Give feedbacks

•Administrate the blog

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Information inCollecting Data

•Data may be send by internet or

phone

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Information inStation Blog

Citizen Meteorologist

•Presentation of the school team and equipments•Posting pictures

and videos of meteorological

phenomena•Opportunity of

interchange with other teams

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Information outSelecting a worldwide location and measurement

•Choose country, state,

city in googlemaps•Choose type

of meteorological

data

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Information outViewing micro-climate maps

•Meteorological data seen as a translucent

mesh over the map

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Information outViewing and comparing data graphs

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Information outComparing weather with climate

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Internet interface: Administrative toolsViewing and comparing data graphs

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br

Thank you for your attention! More details and a test version of the software will be

available from January in our website:

Citizen Meteorologist

www.mc.unicamp.br