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 | And Adventures Written by Paul Doherty Explore the world. Do experiments. Examine scientific images. Paul Doherty, the celebrated teacher and senior scientist at San Francisco’s Exploratorium museum, died in August, 2017, after a return of cancer that had been in remission. Here is a wonderful tribute to Paul written by Danielle Venton of KQED Science. | 
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| I was invited to give a lecture in Dharamsala, India at the conference on Cosmology and Consciousness. All the presenters were welcome by the Dalai Lama. | 
 
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         Explorations SFUSD workshop August 2016 New Teachers 2016   AAPT Worksop July 16, 2016 Waves of light sound and gravity With LIGO   Attend
               a Summer Institute on
                 the Web.                TI
                 Supply carts, these crucial carts full of
                 simple supplies are necessary when doing hands-on
                 science. 30 January 2016 Coursera 2016 for Explainers 2016 31 October 2015 Symphony Workshop Wave Workshop Alumni Summer Institute  Alumni Summer Institute   Prototype LIGO 2015 Planets Orbits and Seasons The Brain first meeting of a 4 week course. 4  April 2015 18 March 2015 6 March 2015 Build an LED point source and find the location of  images of it.  13 December 2014 Exploring The Brain  Exploring the Brain with 15 November 2014 NGSS STEM conference 21 November 2014 The Exploratorium Teacher Institute works with Science leader monks and nuns as well as Geshes in Dharamsala India. Summer 2015 Summer Institutes 2014 High School AM Summer Institute 2014 index to resources Katie's Activities Afternoon elective sections   6 June 2014 Skeptical  31 May 2014 MakerFaire 2014 Dissect the radiofrequency spectrum 17 May 2014 Flax 10 May 2014   Coursera Re-Engineering your science curriculum NSTA Boston 2014 Domino Fall   29 March 2014 Solar Cells Class outline Solar Brightness/Solar Constant 23 Nov 2013 Sea Level rise San Francisco 19 Oct 2013   Trajectories 28 Sep 2013 and Electromagetic Spectrum Summer Institutes 2013 High School AM Paul's website The Institute 2013 PM sections   12 June 2013 11 May 2013 11 March 2013 8 February 2013 17 Nov 2012 CSTA 2012 Exploratorium Observatory    Science Museum Presenter Master Class Questacon 2012   University of Denver 2012   Tides The tides on earth are pulled up by the gravity of the moon which decreases from the near side of the earth to the far side, creating two tidal bulges each day.   A TI workshop February 2012 A lecture series for Geshes, Dharamsala 2011 Americas Cup San Diego, 17 Nov 2011 Workshop November 2011 LIGO 2011 A workshop at Flax 22 Oct 2011 Learning Astronomy in the 21st Century Mobius Explorations   15 September 2011     Colorfest   High School Science at the Exploratorium. Science For Monastics: Monks Present Gray Step postcard .png Developing Material Science Activities for Everyone Build airplanes of paper and styrofoam. Explore the physics of flight. Paul Doherty Peter Hopkinson Nano activities Exnet
               Trainings Exnet is a partnership of museums who have sets
                   of Exploratorium Exhibits. Here are some activities
                   associated with these exhibits which we do at
                   teacher professional development workshops at the
                   Exploratorium. Exhibit Set 3 subset Perception, LIGO, Sep 2010. Exhibit Set 1,
                 Omniplex, Oklahoma, March 2005 AMNH, Exhibit set
                 D, New York. Exhibit Set A (Draft) Los Angeles Exhibit set #2
                 (Draft) Rochester NY Exhibit set #3
                 (Draft) COSI Toledo Exhibit Set #5 (Draft) Fort Worth Exnet exhibits. LLNL Discovery Museum Exhibits Group D. Fresno Met, Sept. 2006     Material Research Society Snackbook 2Ed. Paul, Don Eric and Modesto present the new improved Snackbook. Gray Step January 30, 2010   Build and study a telescope. December 5, 2009   Atom explorations  December 5, 2009   Flow Wave explorations October 24, 2009   Wave explorations August 2009   Activities about water. Iron Science Teacher, Nuts and Bolts, 26 June 2009   Explorations.28 March 2009 Explorations.28 March 2009 Explorations.28 March 2009 Explorations.21 March 2009 Motion Explorations.13 March 2009 17, 18, 19 February 2009 Three days of science explorations for middle school teachers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.   14, 15 February 2009   How glacier ice records the temperature versus time over the last few hundred thousand years. 14 December 2008   The atmospheric greenhouse effect is not the greenhouse effect that occurs in greenhouses. 22 November 2008   Converting potential energy into kinetic energy. 15 November 2008   A colloquium about the physics of the Sun. 5 November 2008 Exploratorium   Learn Science by Doing Science 1 November  2008   Measurement A TI workshop on 18 October 2008   Searching for the meaning of weight. A TI workshop on 11 October 2008   Play music to the rhythm of pendulums The math behind pendulums and palm pipes.   Light activities in our darkroom.   Baseball Physics Finding
                   the Center of Mass of the bat. Finding
                 the Sweet Spots of the bat and throwing a curve ball. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Electricity Static and Dynamic Paul Doherty, Julie Yu Museums on the Web 2008 Montreal  April8, 2008 Teacher Institute workshop April 26, 2008 Jamylle Carter and Paul Doherty 
          Arkansas 2008 Eye Workshop and powerpoint Magnetism
                  and Electrostatics Activities Activities
                  for the Science Standards grades 7 through
                  9 Balance and Center of Mass (draft) Paul Doherty 2007 workshop for the CMC Asilomar
                  Conference Jamylle Carter and Paul Doherty Zoom
                  :Scaling and image processing with Jamylle Carter A workshop Nov 5 -6 2007 Bay Area Mathematics Project, 20 October
                  2007 A keynote lecture by Paul Doherty Pola bear fur is hollow and is rough inside.
                  This makes it scatter light. Thus it is the
                  opposite of a fiber optic. Physics
                  Teacher's Inventions Fair August 27 , 2007 I gave a presentation of
                  science explorations using simple materials in
              Prague , The Czech Republic. Explore magnetism 19 May 2007 Starring Curt Garielson and his mighty Roach
                  motor Electric Force, Field, Potential Energy and
                  Potential A workshop about building museums in Second
                  Life. 
          AAAS 2007 Webcam Workshop at the Exploratorium, on
                  Newton's Laws. Terminal
                  Velocity F= ma Free
                  Fall action and reaction. 
         
     Workshop at the Exploratorium, on weather and
                  climate. Global
                  Climate ChangeWeather Now  Webcasts and
                  workshops. LIGO Museum Grand
                  Opening A
                  workshop on the new exhibits. Paul Doherty, Tom Humphrey, Using high tech gadgets to
                  explore science:digital cameras see in the
                  Infrared, computers as sound analyzers, polarized
                  light sources and strobscopes. A Workshop Given on 22 April 2006 Teacher workshops to prepare for the CSET
                  exam. 
            Color Diffraction
                  Grating, look through it at lights. A workshop presented at RAFT 15 May, 2004. A lecture presented in Italy for Astronomy Week,
                  in April 2004. The lecture was given in Naples,
                  Rome and Perugia. This lecture was given in Pavia and Naples. Polar Bear fur is fiber optic. NOT Glass is a liquid. NOT Workshop 7 February 2004. Magnetism Workshops at Technorama My Technorama Forum Lecture on Magnetism. 2000
                  Years of magnetic discoveries, in 40
                  minutes. Here are teacher workshop activities on
                  magnetism. Hanging a magnet and pointing north. 
         
      
          A useful site for all science teachers,
                  Graph
                  paper as PDF files for your own printer:
                  rectangular, logarithmic and more. To See Older Explorations Go to the
         Archive.     Outdoor
         Adventures 
          Morresa and Martin take me and Paul Morgan to the end of the earth to sea Kayak Tierra del Fuego and hike the W trek in Torres del Paine park. Hiking down from Mirador Cerro Fitzroy   Paul Morgan and Jim Sulivan take me with them from Bishop to Mt. Whitney as they finish the John Muir trail.   Hal and I introduce Galen to adventure climbing.
                  Or as Hal says 5.7? Bob Ayers introduced me to the exploration of
                  slot canyons in June 2007. We Explored the Escalante country. Read about it here. In September 2006, Martin and Morresa Meyer
                  invited me to join them on a three week adventure
                  free climbing and climbing Via Ferratas in
                  Switzerland and in the Dolomites of Italy. The first installment is now posted. Backpacking a 24 mile stretch of the California
                  Coast inaccesible by road. With Paul Morgan, Leslie Warren and Cole the
                  Dog. May, 2006 Paul Morgan and I hiked, climbed and mountain
                  biked in the Owens Valley and around Moab for two
                  weeks in 2005.   Here are tales of our adventures. Daniel McColgan joins me and Hal Murray and Eric
                  Wegryn on his first multipitch outdoor climb.
                  2005.     Paul Doherty leading on Squaw Dome, Southern
                  Yosemite. Up Lyell and around it via the Sierra High
                  Route. Right, Paul Morgan climbs the ridge of Mt.
                  Lyell.-> 50 miles in 5 days. Adventure on trail and off. Hal Murray and I visit Southern Yosemite in
                  search of climbing and find interesting rocks. June 1, 2003 On our 25'th wedding anniversary Ellen and I
                  took a trip to Bishop and visited some interesting
                  local hot spots. Teton
                  Traverse on Telemark Skis Martin and Morresa Meyer and I were guided by
                  Glenn of Rendezvous Ski Tours on a traverse of the
                  Tetons from Victor, Idaho to Jackson Hole, Wyoming
                  on 19-20 March 2003. The image shows us near the
                  end of the traverse, our route is in the
                  background. After many years away I joined a team of 5 other
                  leaders and returned to Joshua Tree. The weather was perfect, 60 F days and 40 F
                  nights. We climbed from dawn to dusk and had a
                  great time. In this photo we are leading routes on the north
                  face of Stirrup Rock. with Paul Morgan September 2002. Long fun climbs! West Face, II 5.7 With Hal Murray and Chris
                  Hibbert.  Fun climbing up a sea of
                  chickenheads. 20 July 2002 The Old Original Route in the Pinnacles of
                  California. With Joe Hastings and Chris Hibbert. June 30,2002. February 2000. Hal and I experienced telemark
                  skiing down perfect powder snow from a summit in
                  the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia. My
                  first week at the Durrand Glacier Chalet. February 1999. Earning my turns near the Durrand
                  Glacier Chalet high in the Selkirk mountains. Seven
                  Continents. When I landed in Australia in
                  February 2002 I touched my seventh continent. New Zealand January, 2002 with Bob Ayers In September, Martin and Morresa Meyer and Paul
                  Morgan joined me for a climb of the arete variation
                  of the CMC route on Mount Moran in The Tetons of
                  Wyoming. We also climbed Wolf's
                  Head in the Wind Rivers. September 2001 Six of us visited the Grand Canyon. We "hiked" from Swamp Point to Crazy Jug point .
                  Some of the hiking was actually canyoneering. We covered 8 straight line miles in 6 days. June 2001 We did it! We completed the first ascent of a 6100
                  m, 20,000 foot high Andean peak: Sierra Nevada de
                  Lagunas Bravas. On 12 December, 2000, Bob Ayers,
                  Paul Morgan, Tony Brake, and I went where no one
                  had gone before. Read
                  about it here. Lunch
                  Ledge, Joe Hastings and I climbed the oldest technical
                  rock climbing route in Yosemite Valley. Here is the view up the south face of Washington
                  Column. This climb leads up left of Yosemite Falls. See Martin Meyer climb the final chimney.   Writing, Media, Awards   In December I was a presenter at the Cosmology and Consciousness conference in Dharamsala, India. The conference was opened by the Dalai Lama who is shown here greating the speakers. My talk was my Boundaries of Science lecture, reduced to 20 minutes.More     My postdoc Stephanie Chasteen asked me to preside at her wedding to Terry on September 10, 2011. She asked for a science reading, so I chose to read from Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume 1, chapter 3  page 10. "The Universe in a glass of wine."      Powerpoints I was invited to give the Keival lecture at Cornell. Explorations demonstrated during the lecture.   Saltwater battery Activities to accompany an article in the Physics Teacher Magazine.   Physics
               Teacher's Invention Fair Here is the web
                 page of the Fair, 27 - 29 August 2007, Charles University, Prague,
                 Czech Republic I delivered the keynote lecture at the 2007
                 Invention Fair in Prague. Learn
                  Science by Doing Science here is a link to my
               powerpoint presentation and here are links to the demonstrations that I presented. To celebrate the 75'th anniversary of the
                  founding of the American Association of Physics
                  Teachers, the members selected 75 physics teachers
                  to write about what they thought was important to
                  the future of physics education. I was honored to
                  be chosen. Paul Doherty In September of 2006 the Exploratorium Published
                  the Exploratopia, a 384 page collection of science
                  explorations for children 8 years old and
                  older. I was the science advisor to Pat Murphy who
                  created the book. This book was the work of dozens
                  of people at the Exploratorium. It creates new
                  activities and harvests older ones. Light refracted by airflow over the wing Novaya
                  Zemlya-like Sunset images A sunset over the Pacific on December 3, 2006
                  results in a long lasting bar hanging over the
                  horizon for nearly two minutes. Great
                  Moments in the History of Science Some of my favorite short science stories. A live webcast of the transit was streamed into
                  Second Life. Total Solar Eclipse, Side, Turkey March 29 2006 GIREP: The
                           International Group for the Teaching of
                           Physics, 2005 The 3rd International GIREP Seminar in
                           Ljubljana Slovenia 5 to 9 September 2005,
                           invited me to be a speaker. Scientific
                  American Magazine
                  presented their Science and Technology web awards
                  for 2004 in the category of astronomy the winner
                  was the Exploratorium's Cassini-Huygens website. We
                  beat out NASA!  In the award
                  notice online they
                  mentioned me by name suggesting that viewers watch,
                  "riveting webcasts by Paul Doherty, the most
                  enthusiastic astronomer ever to don a headset, and
              his game sidekick, NASA's Eric Wegryn. " Iron Science Teacher Cardioids Contrail Shadow image a solution to a puzzle on
                  Astronomy Picture of the Day. A contrail, its shadow on the ground and on the
                  air. Click to enlarge.   Skateboard science Explore listening with strings, balloons cake
                  racks, paper towel rolls and more. Ellen and I went to
                      Costa
                  Rica in August of
                  2004. Paul makes a pattern with floating coins as
                  Alejandra translates. June 7, 2004 Transit
                  of Venus Program at the Exploratorium See the crushing effects of the hot, dense
                  Atmosphere of Venus, see what happens when sulfuric
                  acid rain touches carbohydrates, feel a simulated
                  air blast from a meteor on Venus. by Paul Doherty and Eric Muller April, 2004 Italy Paul was invited to be a lecturer for the Fifth
                  Astronomy Week in Italy. I lectured in: Calitri,
                  Avellino, Naples, Rome, Florence, Perugia, Pavia
                  and Milan. I also got to see
                  ScienzaViva,
                  a legendary science museum in Calitri, and to meet
                  Pietro Cerreta, Canio Toglia, and Lucia Corbo. At the National Science Teachers National
                  Convention of 2003 I was given the Faraday Award
                  for excellence in science communication. I was honored to be recognized by fellow science
                  teachers and science communicators for work which I
                  love to do. February 141,2004 In April 2004 I won the "Red Tape" battle at the
                  Education Summit in Washington DC. On October 12, 2001 A special version of Iron
                  Science Teacher with just 2 contestants, me and Ken
                  Brecher. Ken is a physicist/teacher from Boston
                  University and also an MIT physics alumnus. On July 28 2000 the secret ingredient was
                  aluminum foil. A monthly program of science experiments
                  demonstrated by the world's greatest science
                  teachers. Iron
                  Science Teacher at the NSTA National Convention
                  2003 I used the secret ingredient of NSTA convention
                  catalog covers to make a huge bell for my straw
                  oboe. The sound that comes out is astonishing. I was a writer in the 2001-2002 NSF Artists and
                  Writers Program in Antarctica. I went as part of an
                  Exploratorium Webcast team. Here are the stories of some of my experiences
                  plus a few images. Passing the
                  physical You can also read our Field Notes on the
                  Exploratorium web site. by Don Rathjen and Paul Doherty It is a continuation of the Exploratorium
                  Science Snackbook Series with 30 brand new
                  experiments. Square Wheels was chosen as one of the best
                  books of 2002 for teenagers by the New York Public
                  Library. See the Exploratorium
                  website for ordering information. Book by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty Published by Chronicle Books, September 2000 A guide to seeing the effects of time on the
                  world. From the daily opening and closing of a
                  California poppy, through the yearly growth rings
                  of trees, to the million year long cooling of magma
                  which forms the large crystals in the granite of
                  Tuolumne meadows. I write a quarterly science column with
                  Pat
                  Murphy. It's a great honor writing for a column that was
                  once authored by Isaac Asimov. Gravity
                  for the Adventurous, how to fall faster than g.
                  Close
                  Encounters of the Gravitational Kind, This Australian Road sign is an appropriate
                  warning when dealing with tuning forks. I was shocked to see a sign on a walk around
                  Punakaiki Rocks on the west coast of the South
                  Island of New Zealand that proudly proclaimed one
                  of my favorite sayings. I'm back from Zambia, Africa, where the
                  Exploratorium team webcast the total solar eclipse
                  on June 21, the solstice. It was the most spectacular eclipse of the 6
                  central eclipses I have seen. Check out our adventures here and on the
                  Exploratorium
                  Eclipse site. You can watch the archive of our webcast at the
                  same site too. Ready
                  to Go See how I became a Vogue fashion
                  model. My cousin Pat says of all the adventures on my
                  web page this one is the hardest to believe! I appeared in Vogue L'oumo, Italian men's Vogue,
                  in the May/June 2000 issue. In an article on "Men
                  of Science." Waves Shadows and much more. To See Older Material go to the
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                  Look at lights reflected in a CD.
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                 Over 150 physics teachers gathered to share their
             latest hands-on physics explorations.
              
        
             Paul Doherty plays the bag whirly.
            
         
         
         
                
         
                 
                  
                   
            
               
           
            
         
         
         
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
 of a commercial airliner.Shock Wave
         
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                   
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
            
                     
                   
                         
                  
                            
                        
                             Paul plays the aluminum rod at Bistra
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                           I presented a paper
                           on the Exploratorium Teacher Institute and
                           did a science
                           performance after the conference
                       dinner at Bistra Castle.
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                  
            
                    Pauld Doherty and "Sidekick" planetary scientist
                  Dr. Eric Wegryn.
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                   
            
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                  I was invited by Alejandra Leon of Cientec and
                  sponsored by Jack's to be a speaker at the sixth
                  congress of science and mathematics in Liberia, a
                  city in Guanacaste province in northern Costa
                  Rica.
                  
                  
                   
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                  Battle
                  Chocolate.
                  I presented an exploration of how foil shapes sink
                  in air and water and won the coveted title of Iron
                  Science Teacher.
                                  
            
            
          
                
         
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                                  
               
                   
             Paul
                  and Ron in the webcast theater with the Mars Rover
                  model, and a cart full of science demos.
Paul
                  and Ron in the webcast theater with the Mars Rover
                  model, and a cart full of science demos.
            
         
         
         
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                                  
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
               
                  Leaving
                  Home
                  On the
                  Ice
                  To The Ice
                  Caves
                  Paul's
                  Notes from McMurdo
                  Survival
                  School
                  Mt. Erebus
                  The
                  Flying Geologists
                  Climbing
                  Castle Rock
                  Hiking the Dry
                  Valleys
                   
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
            
                  Square Wheels
            
         
         
         
                
         
                   
            
                  Hawaiian lava flows into the sea. ©
                  2000William Neill
                  Traces
                  of Time
                  photographs by William Neill
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                   
            
                  how does a gravity assist work?
                  Messing
                  with your Mind Memory research
                  Mirror,
                  Mirror,
                  Mirrors and right-left reversal
                  The
                  Shadow Knows,
                  seasons and the analemma
            
          
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
            
          
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                   
            
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                  Arrival in
                  Zambia
                  The Dance of
                  the Earth and the Moon
                  Kubu
                  Cabins
                  A Day at
                  Sausage Tree Camp
                  What we
                  need is a Physicist.
                  Are the Rays
                  Real?
                  In the
                  Dark
                                  
            
            
          
                
         
                   
               
                   
            
            
         
         
         
                
         
                  
                  
                   
               
                                  
            
Final image 2014

The summit of Liberty Cap, Yosemite. A Kite photo with Curt Gabrielson and Bill Maney.
| Scientific Explorations with Paul Doherty |  | 20 August 2013 | 
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