[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 117 (Thursday, June 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 34900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14730]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Prize Purchases
AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce
(DOC).
ACTION: Notice of prize purchase.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the intention of the Communication and
Education (CommEd) Division of CPO to purchase and distribute prizes (1
t-shirt and 1 mug per month) to the monthly winners of the Climate
Challenge--the social media game with a purpose.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Social Media Game with a purpose was
developed for several reasons:
1. To help improve public climate literacy (which is a Climate.gov
requirement).
2. To engage Climate.gov's publics in a fun & challenging way,
while also growing our readership (another req).
3. To test the hypothesis that there is ``wisdom in the crowd'' by
comparing the crowd's averaged best guesses to experts' best guesses as
well as real-world observations.
4. If we find evidence that there is indeed wisdom in the crowd,
then that begs consideration of a next step: development of approaches
for leveraging and focusing the crowd's wisdom in decision-making
contexts for societal benefit.
Climate Challenge allows players to guess future climate-related
conditions, such as the annual Arctic Sea Ice minimum coverage or a
monthly average global surface temperature. The game also allows
players to compare their answers to the experts' and, when available,
see how both predictions compare to real-world measurements. There will
be one climate-related question per month, and whoever comes closest to
guessing the actual values will be that month's winner. For an added
twist, participants can also compete against their friends, colleagues,
or family members.
Climate Challenge also helps to build climate science literacy by
encouraging players to explore online links to materials related to the
topics addressed by each game question. Players who want to increase
their chances of winning are encouraged to visit the links to gather
information that may help them improve the accuracy of their guesses.
NOAA's Climate.gov team will publish the real-world measurements once
they become available, as well as short summaries of the methods that
the experts used to make their guesses.
Matters To Be Considered:
Prizes will be distributed monthly. The prizes that will be given
to each winner (one per month) are a black T-Shirt with the Climate
Challenge Logo on the front and a mug consisting of the same logo as
the t-shirt.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Herring, Division Chief,
Communication and Education Division, CPO, NOAA, Rm. 12104, 1315 East-
West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. (Phone: 301-734-1207, Fax:
301-713-0517, Email: [email protected]). Please feel free to visit
the Climate Challenge Web site using the following link:
www.ecoresearch.net/climate-challenge.
Dated: June 3, 2015.
Jason Donaldson,
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, Office of
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-14730 Filed 6-17-15; 8:45 am]
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