Young climate detectives from all over France had the opportunity to take part in the Climate Detectives Challenge closure event organised by CNES at the Cité de l’espace in Toulouse. The Climate Detectives project gives students the chance to carry out research and scientific activities to understand the causes and consequences of climate change using satellite data and ground-based measurements.
During the day, the hundreds of students in attendance took part in a panel discussion led by the Instant Science association, where they learnt how CNES studies the Earth using satellites, drawing on examples from pop culture. The panel discussion also featured Sébastien Fourest and Claire Tinel, two engineers from CNES’s Lab’OT. The Climate Detectives teams then presented their research findings to the other teams and the CNES experts.
The research projects of French detectives
Among the students present, three teams presented their research to the other students, the CNES experts and the ESERO France team. This allowed all participants to learn about the work carried out by the French Climate Detectives teams. The students were able to attend the following presentations:
- Pupils in CM2 and 6ème at Lezat/Leze have been working on adapting their schools to mitigate the impact of heatwaves. As part of this project, they have created a full-scale model of their schools, which will be presented to the local council.
- The French-speaking Clonlara School, which took part in the Climate Detectives Kids project to find out how satellites can be used to study our planet.
- Students from Alexis Monteil High School who presented their research on the impact of climate change on phytoplankton blooms. These students will also have the opportunity to present their work at the European Space Agency’s European summit.
The whole ESERO France team would like to congratulate all those who took part in the closure event and the Climate Detectives project!
