1 Earth E/PO Forum Nuggets January 2013

2 January 2013 The GLOBE Program now has more than 50,000 Facebook friends and the number is growing exponentially day-by-day. This milestone means that people around the world are engaging with GLOBE content on a daily basis and they are sharing GLOBE content with their friends. Facebook is a key driver of traffic to the GLOBE website, trailing only Google as an outside referral source.Facebook In any given week, GLOBE reaches more than 400,000 people directly. And the GLOBE network reaches more than 1,000,000 people weekly around the world. That's big news for GLOBE ! The GLOBE Program Reaches Significant Milestone – 50,000+ friends on facebook

3 Jessica Taylor CALIPSO Mission E/PO at AGU December 5 & 6, 2012 NASA In-Booth presentation Visualizing CALIPSO Aerosol Data on MY NASA DATA The audience viewed a live demonstration of the visualizations that can be generated on MY NASA DATA. The latest CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) lidar, level three, aerosol data has been incorporated onto the student visualization tool, MY NASA DATA. Through this web-tool, teachers and students can explore CALIPSO Aerosol Optical Depth data. At the In-Booth session, Jessica Taylor showed how users can create global or regional maps, develop time series graphs, and analyze seasonal patterns. Poster presentation Supporting Students as Scientists: One Mission’s Efforts NASA In-Booth Presentation Poster Presentation NASA’s CALIPSO satellite mission provides an array of opportunities for teachers, students, and the general public. CALIPSO E/PO focus is on efforts that would support students as scientists. Jessica Taylor spoke with Poster Session attendees about the various efforts and how each compliment one another to inspire students to become scientists. E/PO resources were made available through a QR code that could be scanned from the poster. June, July, August

4 Jeannie Allen Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training –Remote Sensing (iGETT-RS): An Interagency Collaboration 36 instructors of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at 28 community colleges, 4 high schools, and 4 four-year colleges (in two cohorts) will each receive 18 months of professional development in foundational knowledge of remote sensing. Participants will learn to identify, download, analyze, and integrate Landsat, MODIS, and/or ASTER data with GIS to solve practical problems in agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, disaster management, environmental science, forestry, and urban planning. Summer Institutes will take place at the U.S. Geological Survey’s EROS Center in Sioux Falls, SD and at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD. iGETT-RS participants will join 38 graduates of the project’s predecessor, “iGETT,” in a Community of Practice. iGETT- RS exercises created by participants will be matrixed to skills and competencies for the remote sensing technician recently accepted by the U.S. Department of Labor, and to the Geospatial Technology Competency Model: iGETT- Remote Sensing is a multi-year collaboration by the National Council for Geographic Education, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USGS Land Remote Sensing Program, West Valley College, and the National Geospatial Technology Center. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation DUE ATE #

5 Jeff Kart Earthzine - January 2013 Updates Earthzine.org is seeking papers on Applied Sciences for its second quarterly theme, and has announced the appointment of a new Associate Editor for Education. One facet of the CFP is education, with a focus on research-led teaching related to the topics of applied sciences. The topics of education and related outreach for Earthzine are now supported by Barbara Hofer, Associate Editor for Education. Barbara is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Salzburg, Austria, with a background in geoinformatics Barbara Hofer The Call for Papers requests contributions on ways to prepare applications programs, decision-support systems andCall for Papers Earth science models to use Measurements from upcoming missions, including NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), ICESat-2, Global Precipitation Mission (GPM), ESA’s EarthCare and others. Guest Editor Molly E. Brown, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, leads this theme. Contributions are being accepted until June 1.

6 Emily Schaller, Aaron Duley, DISCOVER-AQ Mission E/PO Educational Chats with DISCOVER-AQ Scientists January 28 & 30, 2013 NASA’s DISCOVER-AQ airborne campaign is currently underway in the San Joaquin Valley in CA. Research flights are scheduled from Jan. 15- Feb. 12, 2013 Using the NASA Airborne Science Program’s Mission Tools Suite Educational Flight Tracker, classrooms around the world can track the planes’ progress and chat live with scientists flying inside the P-3B plane January 28 & 30, schools chatted with scientists (below) about air quality and how this research is important regionally and globally Sally Pusede (UC Berkeley) Kaitlin Duffey (UC Berkeley) David Knapp (UCAR) Andreas Beyersdorf (NASA) Jens Redemann (NASA) Jim Crawford (NASA) 253 students and 7 teachers participated 11 classrooms from CA & Punta Arenas, Chile Elementary, middle, and high school students Students from Punta Arenas, Chile chat with scientists onboard the P-3B aircraft flying over California while tracking the flights using the educational flight tracker. Scientists Sally Pusede and Kaitlin Duffey from UC Berkeley chat with students while flying on the P-3B.