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Weather Service Office Pohnpei visit and tour

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On Thursday 26 June the SC 130/1 physical science class visited the Weather Service Office in Pohnpei. Weather Service Specialist Wallace Jacob began by introducing the students to the services provided by the Weather Service Office.  Mr. Jacob explained the operations side of the office. Jonald, Rusty  Clayton, Eray listening  Jonald, Rusty, Clayton, Eray, Ruthy, Emars, Mary-ellen in a group photo. Weather balloon tracking station.  Current air pressure readings. Earthquake map, Ruthy and Emars listening. Tsunami monitoring station showing oceanic buoys. WSO Pohnpei is responsible for issuing tsunami warnings based on the earthquake and buoy data.  Forecasting model displaying precipitation, possible thunderstorms, here running the GFS model. Outside, Mr. Jacob showed the class the min/max thermometer, the air temperature thermometer, and the dew point thermomet...
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Rocks, Snapseed, Google Slides

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As a summer experiment, laboratory eight was shifted from submitting a document with ten Rick characterized to a Google Slides presentation with five rocks characterized. Three videos led off the laboratory on rock types , minerals , and characterizing rocks . Then a presentation on how to use Snapseed to reduce image size, move to Google Slides, and submit in Moodle. An image of a rock was captured with the Tripltek tablet and then the process outlined in the slide deck was demonstrated on the tablet while mirrored to the Smartboard.  This variation on laboratory eight went well and made lab eight more useful to the students. During the regular term this will segue to a lab nine labelled cloud images slide deck. The lab went long wrapping after two o'clock. The last students left at 14:36. Jonald Some phones, including a Tecma (Android) and an iPhone 12 running iOS 16 were unable to run Google Lens. The Tecma displayed a message that Google Lens was not c...
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Arcminutes of longitude

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With rain bands rolling over the ridge during the morning session, the class was instructed to meet at the dining hall. At 11:30 the sky was fairly clear. Satellite photos suggested further rain bands were headed towards Pohnpei. Given that the five data points from 0 to 120 meters at 30 Meyer intervals would be sufficient, start was shifted to near the bookstore. An early morning sortie had determined that the health clinic fence was on the ground at North 06° 54.578', East 158° 09.637'. This provided a way to extend alongside and beyond the health clinic off of a bookstore start.  Not actually true East. East is to the left. At the bookstore a North 06° 54.578' line of latitude was obstructed out around 60 meters by a Terminalia catappa.  A northward shift cleared the Terminalia catappa. The rough starting point. Looking east, wide angle Looking east, 1.0x At 2.0x from the shifted location, the Termin...
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