Hurricane Force - NOW OPEN
Get blown away! Experience 78 mile an hour category I wind speeds in the Science Center's new hurricane simulator. Also learn about the make-up and formation of hurricanes, preparedness and historical hurricanes that impacted Connecticut.
Overview
There's one thing you can bank on about the Earth. It's always changing. Some times it's in small, everyday ways, like with our weather. And sometimes it's in huge, epic ways like when tectonic plates shift, causing earthquakes and tsunamis. Yet, in the middle of all this change there are people who try to predict what the future holds for us. In this exhibit, you get to step into their shoes and decide what will happen next.
WFSB Weather Station
If you don't like the weather forecast, create your own. In this exhibit, you get to watch WFSB's meteorologists deliver the noontime weather report from the station's studio on our gallery floor. After they're finished, you get to hop in front of the very same green screen and create your own weather reports from live data fed directly from WFSB weather instruments. Do you predict clear and mild, or stormy skies for tomorrow?
Climate Predictor
What can we learn from sifting through a bunch of mud and rocks? It turns out, quite a lot. These “fossils” contain evidence of past changes and clues to the future. Using a real seabed core taken off the coast of New Jersey, you'll learn how to read the information “encoded” in the debris layers and unlock the keys to forces literally shaping our world.
Dynamic Earth
Scientists talk about how the Earth is changing temperature, oceans are rising and mountains are forming. What are they looking at? Most of us don't see these things. Well, in this exhibit, you will. Our specialized projection of the Earth compresses the time scale over which shifts in weather, erosion and plate movements occur so you can better see the consequences of these shifts (some subtle and some gigantic) over time.