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News Items for Science On a Sphere®

27 May 08
Science on a Sphere's® First International Installation

The National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung City, Taiwan, is now exhibiting the first international installation of NOAA's science outreach tool Science On a Sphere® (SOS).

2 May 08
NOAA Supports Top Honor in Government Communicators Competition

NOAA's SOS® was a key component in the award-winning California Department of Water Resources' "Climate Change and California's Water" exhibit at last year's California State Fair.

13 Dec 07
SOS is the Centerpiece of the New Ocean Explorium Exhibit

The 18th Science On a Sphere® (SOS) was installed at the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the week of December 3.

20 Aug 07
Science On a Sphere® Awarded Registered Trademark

Some three years after submitting the application, ESRL's Global Systems Division received an official certificate of registration dated July 31, 2007 for the trademark Science On a Sphere.

10 May 07
Queen Elizabeth Views Science On a Sphere™

NASA presenters gave a very special NOAA Science On a Sphere™ (SOS) demonstration to HM Elizabeth II, Queen of England and her husband, HRH Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and other members of the Royal Family on Tuesday, May 8.

10 Jan 07
Science On a Sphere® at the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i

The new 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i now features a Science On a Sphere® that was installed in November.

14 Jul 06
Sanctuary Visitors View Science in a Unique Fashion

A team from GSD's Technology Outreach Branch installed a Science on a Sphere® exhibit that opened to crowds of nearly 10,000 on July 4th at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena, Michigan.

17 Mar 06
NOAA's Science on a Sphere® Opens at the Tech Museum in California

View from Space, the newly installed Science On a Sphere® exhibit, opens on March 31st at The Tech Museum of Innovation located in downtown San Jose, California.

9 Mar 06
Another Museum Gets SOS®

A team from GSD's Technology Outreach Branch installed NOAA's Science On a Sphere® at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu during the week of February 20th.

27 May 05
NOAA's Science on a Sphere™ Unveiled at The National Maritime Center

NOAA and Nauticus officials unveiled NOAA's Science on a Sphere™ at The National Maritime Center in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 2, 2005.

28 Jul 04
NOAA's Science On a Sphere™ Centerpiece at G-8 Summit

The display of Science On a Sphere™ dominated the press center at the Sea Island G-8 Summit.

14 Jul 04
Inaugural Demonstration of NOAA's Science On a Sphere™ at a Public Museum

In its first public museum exhibition, NOAA's Science On a Sphere™ was showcased at the Maryland Science Center from June 15-30.

05 Apr 04
NOAA's Science On a Sphere to be Exhibited at the G8 Summit

NOAA's Science On a Sphere (SOS) has been invited to exhibit at the G8 Summit, June 8-10 on Sea Island, Georgia.

20 Feb 03
NOAA Science On a Sphere™ Featured Attraction at AMS
Approximately 2000 attendees took the time to see the half-hour presentations by NOAA scientists who explained the NOAA satellite and model imagery displayed on the sphere.

20 Nov 02
FSL Brings Science on a Sphere to Broomfield Heights Middle School

Over the past year, NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) in Boulder, Colorado, has developed Science on a Sphere, an educational program that projects images from environmental satellites, output from computer models of the atmosphere, and data on land-surface and ocean-bottom topography onto a large, suspended sphere.