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Great Lakes Science Center

Case study, museum

The Great Lakes Science Center is a science museum in Cleveland. Its Cleveland Environmental Dashboard combines the museum's own sensors, Lake Erie data from the USGS, and an EPA air quality station. Oberlin College environmental studies students worked on the Cleveland Foundation grant behind the exhibit.

Students and staff pose in front of a dashboard screen and a touch tablet at the Great Lakes Science Center

Dashboard workshop at the Great Lakes Science Center.

What feeds the Cleveland Environmental Dashboard

Where
Cleveland, Ohio
Data
Museum sensors, Lake Erie (USGS) and Cleveland air quality (EPA)
Students
Oberlin College environmental studies students
Public dashboard
Cleveland Environmental Dashboard
3live data sources in one public dashboard
6.4trust score for museums, second only to friends and family at 6.6

What feeds the Cleveland Environmental Dashboard

The museum's own sensorsEnvironmental monitoring equipment at the Great Lakes Science Center
Lake ErieLake data from the US Geological Survey
Cleveland's airAn EPA air quality monitoring station

The dashboard is public, so the exhibit and the website show the same live data.

Modes of information delivery

How people use it

Students

Oberlin College environmental studies students worked on the Cleveland Foundation grant behind the exhibit. In October 2019, students and staff held a workshop at the museum.

Anyone online

People can open Cleveland's lake and air data at home after a visit.

A group discussing the dashboard display and touch-screen exhibit at the Great Lakes Science Center

“The dashboard signage is stitching together the work of Cleveland organizations to make the team effort apparent”

Scott Volmer, Great Lakes Science Center

Origin Story

Dates for the Great Lakes Science Center only. Community Hub's own history since 2000 is on the About page.

  1. October 2019

    Students and staff hold an Environmental Dashboard workshop at the Great Lakes Science Center.

  2. Today

    The Cleveland Environmental Dashboard is public online, and it's live further down this page.

The Cleveland Environmental Dashboard

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Participants in an Environmental Dashboard workshop at the Great Lakes Science Center