A group of nine volunteers from the school community and members of the Bolivar Garden agreed to help water the cacao plot and new terrace during our hot Christmas vacations. From the 15th December till the 6th January these volunteers came and used a newly purchased tube system – courtesy of the Don Simon Coffee […]
Finally as part of sustainability week I worked with all the 7th grade students explaining them how our Davis Weather Station works, seeing it in action and analysing the raw data that it collects. I linked this to an in-progress Walter Leith Climate Diagram that was used to explain how climate data could be shown, […]
Our Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station has a suite of sensors that are used to measure and calculate a variety of climate data. The sensors incorporated into the weather station are as follows: UV Sensor: a photodiode, that measures UV in the range of 280 to 360nm. It gives values of minimum, low, moderate, […]
We now have a really expensive and highly technological piece of equipment at the school – our Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather Station. In this post I am going to inform you about the weather station, how you can get links directly to the data, and what this data actually means. If you have any […]
On another bright and sunny day the location of the Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather station was discussed with input from maintenance, IT, STEAM, Sustainability groups and the science department. After considering a number of locations the site settled for was behind the SWALL between the G and H blocks, just lower down from the […]
In 2022 we were on the cusp of finally purchasing a meterological weather station when unfortunately, the school was hit by a huge cyberattack and the plan had to be put on hold. Last year a census of how a weather station could be used by staff in their classrooms was made and the results […]
