Natural & Physical Sciences

Professional-grade sound level meter measuring noise and assessing hearing loss risk for workers, safety professionals, and researchers.

WindNinja Mobile provides wildland fire managers high-resolution wind simulations that account for terrain to improve operational fire forecasts.

Educational tool preparing students and teachers to explore Biosphere 2 facility and design computer-modeled biospheres through guided virtual experiences.

Hellbender Havoc is an educational game teaching the public about North American Hellbender Salamander lifecycle and conservation to support protection efforts.

Citizen science app enabling public to submit ground-level precipitation observations that help NOAA researchers refine weather radar algorithms and forecasting.

PhET Simulations provides interactive game-like tools for exploring science and math concepts, significantly improving student test scores and engagement.

Quarked! Cross introduces elementary and middle school students to subatomic vocabulary through crossword puzzles and engaging educational content.

Skin & Bones uses augmented reality to animate Smithsonian vertebrate skeletons, making scientific concepts more engaging for museum visitors and students.

Educational puzzle app providing daily encrypted messages to teach students and enthusiasts how to solve historical ciphers.

Global citizen science project enabling birdwatchers to record observations, contributing to a quality-controlled database for scientific research and conservation.

iRain UCI visualizes real-time global satellite precipitation and tracks extreme weather events for researchers, city planners, and the public using validated.

Marine Debris Tracker enables citizens to collect and map standardized litter data, contributing to a global open-data platform on plastic pollution.

Quarked! Baryon Blaster teaches elementary and middle school children fundamental particle physics concepts through interactive educational gameplay.

Quarked! Catcher makes particle physics accessible and engaging for elementary and middle school children through an educational game.

Educational game teaching elementary and middle school children fundamental physics concepts like mass and density through interactive challenges.

Educational game for children exploring particle physics by constructing atoms from quarks, making subatomic concepts accessible and interactive.

Quarked! Photon Invaders is an educational game for children that introduces particle physics concepts through a photon-catching challenge.

NOAA app making hundreds of environmental datasets like climate models interactive and accessible for educators, students, and the general public.

Aquation challenges players to solve global water shortages by managing wealth, building infrastructure, and exploring how choices impact freshwater equity.

Mobile reference tool providing high-resolution surface water current maps for San Francisco Bay, helping recreational and professional maritime operators optimize safety.

Citizen science app enabling public to track harmful algal blooms by submitting three geo-located photographs from single vantage points.

Provides public access to Cassini mission images and data from Saturn's magnetosphere, revealing radiation belts and plasma injection discoveries.

Catch Reporting lets recreational and commercial fishermen log Atlantic Highly Migratory Species catch data, ensuring compliance with federal fishing regulations.

Interactive gallery exploring NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discoveries, showing cosmic objects across different wavelengths for public education.