--------------------------------------------------------------- The following message was sent to you via AVO Web Email System: --------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Adam Blankenbicker Email Address: BlankenbickerA@si.edu Subject: Smithsonian Education programming on geology and volcanoes Message: Good Afternoon-- The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC will be opening a new 10,000 sq ft. hands-on education space in the Fall of 2012. The space, called Q?RIUS, will include 1000’s of real objects covering our research departments (mineral sciences, entomology, vertebrate zoology, invertebrate zoology, anthropology, botany and paleobiology), and many different types of activities and programs for public and school groups. The reason for this email is that we are looking for digital media to add context to the specimens we have, including photos, videos, diagrams, and audio. Visitors will be able to scan a QR code attached to each specimen, and information and images will appear on a screen, including this digital media. The real specimens being used come from our education collections, not research collections, so we definitely have some holes that need to be filled in the future... One of the activities I am currently working on focuses on the variety of products that come out of volcanoes. While the list is not 100% comprehensive, some of the objects we plan to include are ash (St. Helens), aa, pahoehoe, peridotite xenolith, scoria, pumice, obsidian, & reticulite. And maybe a jar of gas to represent the gases that are given off, as well. We are definitely missing some key pieces (i.e. rhyolite), but this is mainly due to our what we have in our collection. Would your observatory be able and willing to pass along to us digital media related to these objects, and the permission to use them in our education center and online collection associated with it? Video or photos of lava flows, collecting specimens in the field, finding peridotite xenoliths, various eruptions, etc… I would also like to ask about the possibility of gathering actual specimens for our education collection and how we might get them here to DC. If you have any questions, please contact me via email or phone (see below). Thanks for your time. Cheers. -Adam- Adam Blankenbicker Education Specialist - Geology Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History BlankenbickerA@si.edu Tel. (202) 633-1123 ---------------------------------------------------------------- REMOTE IP ADDRESS: 127.0.0.1 USER AGENT/BROWSER: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) REFERRING PAGE: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/contact.php