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Updated: April 15, 2025 @ 8:16 pm
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Library Services is hosting a free collaborative Climate Stripe Bracelet Making and Discussion event in the Library on April 22 from 2-3:30 p.m. in honor of Earth Day and spreading environmental awareness.
According to the event description on the Middlesex College website, this event is co-sponsored by the Earth Science and Sustainability Club, Department of Natural Sciences and Middlesex College Honors Program.
Linette Espinosa, president of Earth Science and Sustainability Club, said the #ShowYourStripes event is about engaging the college community in making a bracelet that brings awareness to climate change.
Espinosa said since 1860 scientists have monitored climate change using a chart, with blue typically being in the good range, and over the years it has turned red.
So, the chart ends up making a color scheme, and the bracelets are put together to show this change, she said.
Espinosa said she thinks a lot of people know their basics about climate change and global warming but no one really goes in-depth about it, so this event is a nice way to spread awareness of climate change throughout the college community.
“Earth Day is celebrated everywhere, not just by Earth Science majors. So, it’s a fun event to share with everybody,” she said.
Kelsey Gallagher Mambach, assistant director of Library Services, said Library Services is going to provide materials like beads and such for students to mimic the climate change warming chart with bracelets and keychains.
She said Earth Day falls on April 22, and snacks will be provided by the Honors Program.
Espinosa said that caring for our Earth is a top priority because it is our home.
“If we have no Earth, we have no home. As we know, it’s slowly not looking good for us, and a lot of things are starting to change very rapidly. So, we have to really reverse that to kind of keep our way of living going,” she said.
Mambach said Claire Condie, adviser of the Earth Science and Sustainability Club, is also going to be leading a discussion on climate science and climate change.
Condie said, “I’m really excited about our Earth Day event.”
She said last summer she attended an advanced program for college professors through the school of ice where she got to work with other people in natural science careers that have worked in Greenland and Antarctica to learn how ice is used to decipher the past.
“So they drill ice cores, and then depending upon the gases that are trapped in the ice and their depth, it tells you a different story about what has happened in both the geologic and climate past on our planet,” she said.
She said that’s why her presentation at the library is related to discussing the techniques we use today to collect data from ice cores that help inform people about what temperature’s were like in the past and how to use this data to shape our future on Earth.
Condie said air bubbles that could range up to 1,000 years old get formed between layers of ice, so scientists can go back in time and study the gases that are trapped in the air bubbles.
Seeing how much carbon dioxide or methane are in the atmosphere can help scientists determine Earth’s past temperature levels, she said.
Condie said another topic that is going to be talking about is the different compositions of the water molecule, where people can look at the elements themselves and figure out what the temperature was like.
She wants to give people the knowledge to comprehend where climate change data comes from so people can understand how to analyze the data, Condie said.
Condie said students from both the Oceanography course and Climate Science course are sharing their research papers, so there is going to be a poster session where students will have their posters printed up and displayed.
She said the Earth Science and Sustainability Club is also making seed pods to be given out, and the art department had hoped to try to make some art on the trees that have been cut down and put that on display at the event.
Condie said the idea to bring the Earth Day and climate change event to Middlesex College came up last year, and she has been working with staff members from Library Service to bring the event together.
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