Topic: Question about data (1 of 2), Read 9 times
Conf: General Discussion
From: Deer Park Middle Magner School (rgalitzer@bcps.org)
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:07 AM

You posted the word "pan" as your heating device for Colorado Aspen Middle School. A pan is a container. We would like to know what your actual heating device is. The word "pan" was quite confusing! Please be so kind as to verify the actual heating device that you used!

 
Topic: Question about data (2 of 2), Read 7 times
Conf: General Discussion
From: John Park (jpark5@stevens-tech.edu)
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:56 AM

You are very observant to pick up this discrepancy in the data! I have to say that I missed that entry myself.

The data that you are questioning was submitted in the spring of 2000 by students in Aspen, Colorado who were participating in the project. They went on a special field trip high in the Rocky Mountains to do the experiment. I included their data in the database that you recently received because it is not often that we are able to find someone to boil water at such a high elevation.

I looked back through my email from this school and I believe what they did was to put a pan on top of a wood burning stove that was in the hut where they did the experiment. So you can use "wood burning stove" as the heating device.

Here is an excerpt from the Letter of Introduction that the students wrote:

"We went on our outdoor education trip two weeks ago, and we went to the Shrine Mountain huts on Vail pass. We cross-country skied to the hut, it was so fun. We did the experiment there too. Our elevation at the huts was 11,200 feet and it boiled at 91 degrees."

I hope this helps with your analysis!

John Park
Project Leader