A snippet from the title page of our BAMS paper.

We DIYnamicists are thrilled to share that the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society —- BAMS as its more commonly known —- a prestigious journal that publishes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in meteorology, climate science, and weather/climate science education, recently published an article all about DIYnamics. It was written by several of us in the first half of 2018 and accepted for publication a few months later, and was then published as part of BAMS’ December 2018 issue. (Academic publishing does not operate at lightning speed!)

Titled “Affordable rotating fluid demonstrations for geoscience education: The DIYnamics project”, it provides an overarching summary of the whole endeavor: why rotating tanks are valuable teaching tools, why there’s a need for cheaper devices and easy-to-use teaching materials, how our platform works, past outreach events that we’ve done (see many other blog posts for details on those), and so on. As academic journals go, BAMS is very not stuffy, and we deliberately wrote the article so that anybody could read it and understand it…since that’s basically the whole point of DIYnamics anyways!

This was a major honor for us, and we sincerely hope that more and more people will learn about DIYnamics and take it seriously thanks to this. In fact, already at least one community college professor emailed me who plans to use it in one of his classrooms. Huge thanks go to the BAMS editors, publishing staff, the two peer reviewers who provided really valuable suggestions (one was anonymous, the other was Prof. Paul Williams of the University of Reading), and to everybody else along the way who has made this possible.