In addition to providing station data online, Hello, Weather! partners with organizations to create workshops, lectures, exhibitions, presentations and other events for all ages.

Extreme Weather Snowglobes made of Recycled Materials

Participants at the Eyebeam Holiday Hackshop selected a historical or current extreme weather or climate event to remember in a snowglobe, researched the event online and made snowglobes out of recycled jars, photographs, electronic parts, lights and other notions, glitter and water. Extreme events included: Katrina, The 2004 Tsunami, the California forest fires, The Dust Bowl, El Nino, Sea level rise. the Melting of the Polar ice caps, the Bark beetle invasion and Bee Colony Collapse.

American Excess Temperature Gauge

Bored to read all numbers and would like to imagine the weather on your skin? The American Excess temperature gauge sticker changes color based on temperature and reminds you to conserve energy. Available at Eyebeam.

How’s the Weather? Broadcast at the Whitney Biennial

This summer we conducted a series of man-in-the-street interviews about personal climate change stories as part of the Neighborhood Public Radio live radio stream at the Whitney Biennial

Block Party Balloon Launch and Air Quality Bake Sale

At the Eyebeam Block Party on October 18th, we launched two weather balloons off the roof at the site of the weather station and Heidi Neilson and Natalie Campbell of the SPWS held an air quality bake sale to raise funds for our very own air quality monitor.

Sustainability Research Group Expert Meetings

A series of Expert Meetings are being held at Eyebeam in conjunction with this project. The first was on September 16th, 2008 and featured Tim Dye from the EPA/Airnow and Victoria Vesna from The UCLA Art/Sci Center. Above is a slide from Tim’s presentation and Eve Mosher, Tim and Adrienne Wortzel.

On October 21st, the research group hosted Ken Mankoff of Columbia University / NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Mary Arnold, Project Director PLANETNYC.org. Shown here is a Google Earth visualization showing weather stations around the world, color coded by warming or cooling trends. Click here to download the kmz file