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Monday, September 17, 2007 Climate Change Exhibit at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Wins Museum Design Award Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego  Birch Aquarium's Feeling the Heat Exhibit "Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge," Birch Aquarium at Scripps' newest interactive exhibit, has been named the Silver winner in museum design for the 2007 Event Design Awards. Sponsored by Connecticut-based Event Design Magazine, the annual awards recognize the best designs worldwide across events, exhibits and environments. Designed by Bowman Design Group, in collaboration with design director Ed Hackley, "Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge" explores the scientific facts of climate change, highlighting a half-century of global leadership in climate research from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The 2,600-square-foot exhibit opened in May with an official dedication by former Vice President Al Gore, who featured Scripps research in his Academy Award-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." The 2007 Event Design Awards drew entries representing every type of live event from designers and agencies worldwide. Deans from a dozen U.S. design schools judged the competition. Winners will be featured in Event Design Magazine's upcoming "Best of the Best" issue.  Birch Aquarium's Feeling the Heat Exhibit "Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge" explores the forces driving dramatic environmental changes around the globe and challenges visitors to discover ways to reduce their carbon footprint. They can magnify microscopic fossils to see how scientists track temperature across centuries, test their knowledge of whether everyday activities impact the planet's temperature and deliver the climate report of the future in the California 2050 Newsroom. The exhibit will be on display for at least two years. ### Visit Birch Aquarium at Scripps: Location: 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, Calif. Phone: 858/534-FISH Website: http://aquarium.ucsd.edu Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily Admission: $11 Adult, 18+ $9 Senior, 60+ $7.50 Youth, 3-17 Free Children, 2 and under Free Scripps Oceanographic Society Members Directions: From Interstate 5, exit at La Jolla Village Drive. West one mile. Left on Expedition Way. Parking: Birch Aquarium's parking lot offers three-hour courtesy parking. # # # Note to broadcast and cable producers: University of California, San Diego provides an on-campus satellite uplink facility for live or pre-recorded television interviews. Please phone or e-mail the media contact listed above to arrange an interview. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at University of California, San Diego, is one of the oldest, largest and most important centers for global science research and education in the world. The National Research Council has ranked Scripps first in faculty quality among oceanography programs nationwide Now in its second century of discovery, the scientific scope of the institution has grown to include biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical and atmospheric studies of the earth as a system. Hundreds of research programs covering a wide range of scientific areas are under way today in 65 countries. The institution has a staff of about 1,300, and annual expenditures of approximately $155 million from federal, state and private sources. Scripps operates one of the largest U.S. academic fleets with four oceanographic research ships and one research platform for worldwide exploration. |
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