Museums and science centers

The Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland runs an Environmental Dashboard, combining the museum's own sensors with Lake Erie data from the USGS and an EPA air station.

Products and Services

Live exhibit screens

A large screen and a touch kiosk, showing your region's live data.

A drawing of your city or watershed

Oberlin, Toledo and Cleveland each have their own Citywide Dashboard illustration.

A phone remote and a public web version

Visitors take over a screen from their phone, then keep reading at home.

Museums rank second in public trust, just behind friends and family

Friends and family6.6
Museums6.4
Scientists6.1
NGOs5.3
Local news5.1
National news4.8
Government4.5
Business4.4
Social media3.8

From a national survey of 1,200 US adults.

The Cleveland Environmental Dashboard, live

Great Lakes Science CenterEnvironmental monitoring equipment at the center

Lake ErieLake data from the US Geological Survey

Cleveland airAn EPA air quality monitoring station

Cleveland Environmental Dashboard

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Cleveland Environmental Dashboard 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

Common questions

Can visitors keep exploring after they leave?

Yes. The Cleveland Environmental Dashboard is public on the web, and pieces of it can go on your own website.

Do you draw our city or watershed?

Yes. Oberlin, Toledo and Cleveland each have a Citywide Dashboard drawing in the same hand-drawn style.

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

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