Communicating Climate Change

The C3 (Communicating Climate Change) component is based on a grant from the National Science Foundation and run through the Association of Science and Technology Centers, in partnership with 12 other museums nationwide.  Teens participate in a citizen science project in which they record frog calls at a local pond in Forest Park.  The data is then entered into a nationwide database, FrogWatch USA.  The teens use what they learn about the timing of frog calls to communicate the effects of climate change to visitors at the Saint Louis Science Center.  Climate change may cause frogs to call earlier in spring; it may also affect the flight times of butterflies, budburst in plants, the migrations of birds, and various other local species.