Discovery on Wheels: the Biobus


need most right now,” Dubin-Taler says, “is money.” Financial donations are critical to sustaining Dubin-Taler’s non-profit organization; they allow the Biobus to visit schools that can’t afford to pay, the schools the Biobus was built to serve. “Poor grad students and post-docs should come volunteer in lieu of a donation,” Dubin-Taler says. Tere are other ways for scientists to get involved, too.


Dubin-Taler’s newest project, called Microglobalscope, is an online forum designed to start a dialogue between students and scientists all over the world. To get that dialogue going, Microglobalscope sent science kits—digital cameras, collecting equipment, and microscopes—to ten schools around the world and began issuing challenges. “We’ll say, ‘Okay, this week, go out and get all the bugs you can find,’” Dubin-Taler says, “and the kids in Australia will go out and get bugs from Australia, and the kids in China will go out and get bugs from China, and the kids in Hawaii will go out and get bugs from Hawaii . . .” Te students post their findings on the online blog, and scientists can log on and post comments. “We really need scientists who are interested in being a part of that online forum,” Dubin-Taler says. “We want to change the way that students and scientists see each other.” You can find both projects on the web. Go to http://biobus.


Figure 4: Ixe on the Biobus at Earth Fair 2009.


org for information about donating and volunteering. To find out how you can get involved with Microglobalscope, go to http://microglobalscope.com.


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