In 1856, a little known female scientist, Eunice Newton Foote, conducted a simple yet seminal experiment revealing carbon dioxide's role as a green house gas. While it took many years for the full implications of her findings to be appreciated and for the physical and chemical processes underlying this result to be uncovered, her work provided a critical foundation. This video introduces a Biophysics PhD candidate who works in the KC Huang lab in the Stanford Bioengineering Department, Rachel Porter. Rachel talks about her background and passion for the environment and created an experimental procedure to replicate Foote's work and supplementary learning materials with the goals of (1) demonstrating the historical contributions of female scientists, (2) enabling students to discover for themselves how the greenhouse gas effect works, and (3) providing a fun learning activity for students, scalable from elementary to college level courses.
nano@stanford labs- nanolabs.stanford.edu/
KC Huang lab- whatislife.stanford.edu/
Resource Document- docs.google.com/document/d/1ac8fhU6emSHJ5CgtTRv8F5jEhNJf0n-k9VowqgmIN4M/edit?usp=sharing