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Albedo Effect in the Clay High School Parking Lot
Organization(s):Clay High School
Country:United States of America
Student(s):Bradyn Hendrickson
Dillon Spetz
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Member(s):Joseph Carstensen
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Report Type(s):Virtual Science Symposium Report
Protocols:Surface Temperature
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Language(s):English
Date Submitted:2026-01-30
Our research question was “Does the albedo effect pertain to black and white painted parking lots?”. Every school day in the months of October and December we took the temperature of a spot painted white, and a spot painted black. We measured the temperature with an infrared thermometer which gave us our results in Celsius. We then took our results and compared them to find our final results. Our conclusion is that the Albedo effect does apply to painted parking spots.