{"id":154,"date":"2016-03-26T03:34:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-03-26T03:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:37:24","slug":"root-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/root-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Root Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Root<\/a>
Root Rhapsody exhibit at SD Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David Lipson collaborated with a middle-school teacher and artist,\u00a0 Jason Rogalski, in an art-science educational and public outreach activity called Root Rhapsody. First, Jason helped describe the root system of San Diego’s dominant native shrub, Artemisia californica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/a>
Jason sketches while Bob uses pressure washer to expose root system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Lipson<\/a>
Lipson lectures about roots in Jason’s middle school class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hydroponic<\/a>
Hydroponic experiment with tomato plants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We then set up a hydroponic growth experiment in Rogalski’s classroom to demonstrate the impact of limiting nutrients.<\/p>\n

\"Roots<\/a>
Roots cast in resin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The roots were then cast in clear resin, creating sculptures.<\/p>\n

\"Student<\/a>
Student painting with roots cast in resin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students also created monochromatic paintings depicting a sample from the experiment. The sculptures and paintings were displayed at an event at the San Diego Public Library, along with another of Jason’s educational walk-in paintings, “Photosynthesis Fiesta<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\"Poster<\/a>
Poster accompanying Root Rhapsody exhibit at SD Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Lipson collaborated with a middle-school teacher and artist,\u00a0 Jason Rogalski, in an art-science educational and public outreach activity called Root Rhapsody. First, Jason helped describe the root system of San Diego’s dominant native shrub, Artemisia californica.   We then set up a hydroponic growth experiment in Rogalski’s classroom to demonstrate the impact of limiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sci.sdsu.edu\/lipsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}