Set up of the sea-level rise exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum

The UW is creating a display at the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park that illustrates how projected changes in sea level due to climate change could affect Seattle's waterfront, as well as other more vulnerable waterfront cities elsewhere in the world.

University of Washington outreach crew setting up the exhibition.

Blue line for the sea level in the present day 2009.

 The red line shows the predicted 2100 sea-level.

Lake Forest Park Elementary Science Night

A team of 3 graduate students set up a table at Lake Forest Park Elementary's Annual Science Night with information about careers in the atmospheric sciences. Kelly McCusker, Kristen Rasmussen and Reid Wolcott manned the table and performed lab demos for interested children and their parents. 

A student learns about air pressure from this hands-on demo

Kelly talking to kids and their parents about a can crushing demonstration

Kelly's excitement while doing a can crushing demonstration

Kids line up to see the can crushing demo

Kristen explains the current radar image to children and their parents