OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page 1 Outreach session agenda: Friday afternoon 14 March, 8h30 – 12h00 Chairpersons: V. Rosmorduc, M. Srinivasan 9:30-9:45 Overview & Past/Future activities, V. Rosmorduc 9:45-10:00 Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox & Tutorial, V. Rosmorduc 10:00-10:15 New Material for Teaching Oceanography, R. Stewart 10:15-10:30 Ocean Altimetry Data: Operational Users and Applications, M. Srinivasan 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-11:15 Supporting Ocean Literacy: JPL Ocean Surface Topography (OST) Education and Public Outreach Activities for , A. Richardson 11:15-11:30 Ocean Altimetry: Anticipating News and Public Interest, R. Sullivant 11:30-11:45 Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and the Polar Regions: Using visuals to promote public understanding, S. Zicus, C. Macaulay 11:45-12:30 Showcase of SWT outreach "products”
OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page 2 Argonautica About 20 beacons in operation (oceanographic buoys, Albatrosses, elephant seals, penguins, Argo float, …) Google Earth visualisation now available 2 fact-sheets (a buoy around an eddy, a buoy along a major current), in French, with animations
OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page wall calendar
OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page 4 3D images and animations Now on the Aviso web
OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page 5 Radar altimetry tutorial and toolbox A joint ESA-CNES project All satellites since ERS-1, nearly all level of data Mostly user-oriented… … but novice users and students are often the same! See Demonstration of the (preliminary) tutorial and toolbox on request
OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page 6 JPL Jason 5th Anniversary/Ocean Literacy Bookmark OSTM lithograph Jason-1 lithograph updated New Science result posters
OST/ST, March Outreach Session Page 7 Future developments Jason-2/OSTM Education & Public Outreach & applications outreach Altimetry applications, including multisensor Coverage of science team research and other applications on web New animations and videos on Aviso Aviso web site refurbished, with increased news frequency 6 months beginning before Jason-2 Wide Argonautica program might also be set up in place for schools implication around (before/after) Jason-2 launch