Tower Educational Opportunities at Liberty Science Center...

Science and Technology of Broadcast Communications
• The building that houses the broadcast equipment, its staffing and operations as a unique interactive component of modern technology.
• Exhibition and programming links as part of a new communication theme experience that includes editing and broadcast studios, a video wall featuring TV images of science and technology happenings around the world, explanations of digital sound, the electromagnetic spectrum, sound frequencies, radio and TV transmission.

Geography
• Aided observation of pre-human regional geography, shoreline changes with urbanization/reclamation, Liberty State Park's history, ocean-estuary-bay interactions.
• Urban planning, transportation systems, sprawl, congestion, trends, collaborative environmental planning, sustainability considerations.

Lower Atmosphere
• Instrumentation to give continuous data feeds of weather, UV, pollen, and pollution variables at various heights for interactive live displays and regional broadcasts, urban microclimates.
• Solar energy, Earth's annual revolution and daily rotation, sunlight and the seasonal control of day length, geometry of tower shadows in the form of a giant sundial.
• Hurricanes, nor'easterns and thunderstorms as the region's main natural hazards.

Migratory Birds
• Monitoring of this tower's impact as a research contribution.
• Nesting sites provided up on the tower with videocams.
• Flyway routes, why and how birds migrate, endangered species.
• Impact of tall structures, clearinghouse for research that better understands bird impacts of skyscrapers and towers and ways to mitigate their effects.

Construction
• Time lapse photography and other filming of construction to document the event.
• Meaning of vertical and gravity.
• Engineering, tools, equipment, industry careers.
• Sway and vibration of tall buildings.

Science of Scale
• Mathematics, powers of ten, macro and micro scales.
• Height, weight, distance.
• Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic modeling.

Remote Control and Virtual Reality
• Personally control and zoom cameras of predefined and interpreted famous features in the panorama that illustrate science and technology principles.
• Virtual reality headsets to simulate in 3D and high-definition the nature of atmospheric turbulence and hang gliding off the tower to visit and understand major science and technology features in the region.
• Latest surveillance technologies.

Emplyn Koster, PhD, President and CEO, Liberty Science Center; 11/02