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Oceans & Water

Is pure water colorless?

To paraphrase French philosopher René Descartes: "I sink, therefore I am."

Let your electrolytes shine.

Make your own heat waves in an aquarium.

Create a convection cell inside a CD case.

Underwater, what you see is not what you get.

Buoy your understanding of density.

Make a portable cloud in a bottle: Now you see it, now you don’t!

Model the carbon cycle and its principal reservoirs and flow rates using rice.

Watch the rise and fall of hot and cold fluids.

Gravity doesn’t care if you trip.

Change the atmosphere to change the water below.

What do you do if something looks odd in your data?

See why ocean acidification may be giving some marine organisms shell shock.

How are water temperature and salinity tied to the San Francisco Bay’s tidal cycle?

Build a simple model to explore the influence of the sun and moon on our tides.