EPO Working Group Report

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EPO Working Group Report
Stephanie Stockman Jeannie Allen Ernest
Hilsenrath Aura Science Team
Meeting Pasadena, CA March 2005
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Aura EPO Components

• American Chemical Society
• GLOBE School Program and Teacher Workshops
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• EarthObservatory website
• Aura website network

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• Fourth issue of ChemMatters under development
• with the American Chemical Society
• Aura science and engineering.
• Early results and validation.
• Aura science and engineering teams will be
  contacted to contribute
• Issued in upcoming fall semester

http//www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay
.html?DOCeducation\curriculum\chemmatters\issue_a
rch.html
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Aura Poster - Developed with the American
Chemical Society
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Two New Publications on NASAs Earth
Observatory Web site
1. Aura Fact Sheet http//earthobservatory.nasa.g
ov/Library/Aura/
2. Article Enhancing Research and Education
through Partnerships http//earthobservatory.nasa.
gov/Study/Partnerships
A total of six articles now appear in the
EarthObservatory site
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GLOBE Atmospheric Sciences Workshop for Teachers
July 2004 at CSU

• 40 middle and high school teachers from the
  United States and France
• Participants learned GLOBE protocols for surface
  ozone, aerosols, and clouds. .
• Teachers have given regional workshops in New
  England, Virginia, Maryland, and Hawaii.
  Teachers in Texas and Arizona have set up
  stations and are very active.
• Funded jointly by Aura, CALIPSO, and CloudSat

"This workshop will have a huge impact in my
classroom," "I gained a new understanding and
appreciation for Earth science as a whole
system. Betty Strong, science teacher at the
Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington, NM.
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A-train workshop participants 2004
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Regional workshop at Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore,
MD January 26, 2005
July 2004 Colorado workshop participant Mary
Ellsworth, Gallaudet University, teaches
atmosphere protocols
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NASA and U.S. National Park Service
Partnership Earth to Sky Workshops

• Train the Trainers Workshop, September - 26
  NPS Interpreter Trainers (Rangers) trained on
  Aura science education resources
• Interpreters Workshop, October - 52
  Interpreters trained (26 on East coast and 26 on
  West coast)
• Jack Fishman provided 90 minute session on air
  quality during October workshop.
• Aura EPO arranged Climate Change Panel, six
  scientists, two hours, video conference with both
  coasts

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Surface Ozone Project Ozone Biomonitoring
Gardens (I. Ladd and J. Fishman, LaRC)
Ozone biomonitoring garden program developed by
LARC, and U.S. National Park Service, Great
Smoky Mountains NP The Aura EPO is helping to
set up sites for ozone monitoring stations and
ozone biomonitoring gardens at federal research
visitor centers GSFC Visitor Center U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Services Patuxent Wildlife Visitor
Center
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Collaboration with NOAA Emerging Scientists
Program

• Pilot project of the NOAA Office of Education and
  Sustainable Development
• Utilizes available NOAA Corps vessels as sampling
  platforms for teachers to work on research
  projects designed and directed by students.
• Aura is exploring the feasibility and value of
  NOAA ships crew and teachers making daily ozone,
  UV, and/or aerosols measurements

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Smithsonian NMNH ExhibitChange is in the Air

• The exhibit will answer three main questions
• What is the atmosphere?
• How the atmosphere formed, its properties, how it
  works, and how it is connected to other global
  systems.
• How is the atmosphere important to our lives?
• How the atmosphere has changed over the last 100
  years and impacted our culture how do those
  changes affect human and environmental health
  and what can individuals and societies do to
  regain a healthy atmosphere.
• How do we study the atmosphere?
• Identifying some of the scientists studying the
  atmosphere, showing some of the tools used in
  scientific research, showing what has been
  learned about the atmosphere, and exploring how
  we make predictions for the future.

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Educational Goals and Objectives

• Demonstrate to visitors that the atmosphere is a
  dynamic and interconnected system. 
• Learning objective Visitors will be able to
  briefly describe how the atmosphere is connected
  to one other earth process.
• Demonstrate that the atmosphere affects visitors
  lives directly and daily. 
• Learning objective Visitors will be able to
  describe three of their daily activities that are
  affected by or affect the atmosphere.
• Demonstrate that NASA and other scientists study
  the atmosphere.
• Learning objective Visitors will be able to
  identify one way scientists are studying the
  atmosphere.

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• Other Exhibit Features
• Milky Way zoom-in to Smithsonian on Washington
  Mall
• Aura 1/8 model
• TOMS Engineering Model
• Langley solar spectrometer??
• Antarctic Ozone Hole Movie 1996-2004
• (TOMSOMI)
• Funny Garbage - Cartoon illustrating
  reactivity
• of O2 and O3
• Terra Incognita - Interactive Earth with Low,
  
• Existing, High O2, O3, CO2

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Exhibit Educational Extensions

• Forces of Change Web Portal
• On-line version of the physical exhibit
• On-line version of a computer interactive
• Curriculum components
• Current atmospheric conditions interactive
• GLOBE partner site on the Mall

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Summer 2005!
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National Geographic Magazine The
Aura EPO developed an article idea about Earth
system science research from space, and conferred
with National Geographic Society staff. Article
highlights enhanced Earth-observing systems and a
new era of Earth system research. Aura EPO is
working with NGS with background material as NGS
develops a proposal to the NGS Story Council.