# Presentation: 084110

## Aura Education and Public Outreach Overview

- Brooke C. Hsu, Aura E/PO Lead
- Sarah Dewitt, Aura PAO Lead

## Education and Public Outreach At a Glance

- Announcements
- Goals
- Formal Education
- Informal Education
- Public Outreach
- Social Media Networking
- Partnerships

## Announcements

- ROSES E/PO Supplements
- $15k for education programs
- $10k for outreach programs
- Deadline: December 15, 2008
- Senior Review
- Proposals due early March, 2009
- Includes E/PO portfolio review
- Send any efforts you want to include by December 15, 2008

## Goals

- Keep the public informed of scientific findings from the mission
- Emphasize science results from collaborative measurements
- Provide formal education community with access to scientific data and supporting curricular materials to use data
- Provide informal education community access to data visualizations, science stories related to science questions

## Formal Education

- Data in the classroom
- MY NASA DATA: OMI and TES data; supporting lesson for NO2
- Earth Exploration Toolbook: using Google Earth to explore data
- Total column O3 in NASA
-        Earth Observations

## Formal Education

- Howard B. Owens Science Center Air Quality Program
- 6th grade students in Prince George’s County, MD
- Students visit GSFC and see Aura data on Science on a Sphere, Ozone BioIndicator Garden
- Spring ’08, 760 students did program

## Formal Education

- Medgar Evers College Satellite (MECSAT) Program
- Undergraduate students
- Ozone sonde launches
- Summer Academy for high school students
- Microtops being calibrated for their use

## Formal Education

- The GLOBE program at KNMI
- Since 2002 at KNMI
- Focus on validation of OMI AOT
- 2 measurement campaigns every year
- Goals:
- Science (JGR article 2006)
- Education (NL&T module, school visits, feedback)
- Public outreach (Articles, student visit KNMI, press releases)

## Informal Education

- Science on a Sphere (SOS) programming
- Installation in 25 informal education venues
- Uses cylindrical projection, high resolution images from data
- Air quality program in development

## Informal Education

- Articles on Earth Observatory - science updates, image of the day
- NASA Ozone BioIndicator Garden - partnership with Langley Research Center
- “Change is in the Air” online exhibit with National Museum of Natural History

## Informal Education

- Data on Earth Today installations
- Support for NASA Museum Alliance
- online resources: animations, visualizations, calendar
- teleconference training for museum audience

## Public Outreach

- Press release and live shot campaigns tied to publications & milestones
- Vodcasts: condensed science stories that provide a snapshot experience

## Public Outreach

- Polished data products for Science on a Sphere and Magic Planet
- Publications of science stories on NASA portal - Earth science and front page

## Public Outreach

- Media training/outreach orientation for science team
- Media workshops at professional conferences: Spring AGU - Aura 5 year anniversary findings
- Wide distribution of “big impact” data & images to AP, Reuters, National Geographic

## Aura & Social Media Networking

- Aura on Facebook: Aura Spacecraft
- Adventures in Earth and Space Blog
- Aura Twitter account: need input to keep updates fresh!

## Education and Public Outreach Partnerships

## Websites:

- _[http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov](http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/)_
- _[http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov](http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/)_
- _[http://serc.carleton.edu/eet/index.html](http://serc.carleton.edu/eet/index.html)_
- _[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov](http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/)_
- _[http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov](http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/)_
- _[http://www1.pgcps.org/howardbowens/](http://www1.pgcps.org/howardbowens/)_
- _[http://nrts.mec.cuny.edu/mecsat/](http://nrts.mec.cuny.edu/mecsat/)_
- _[http://www.globe.gov](http://globe.gov/)_

## Contact Information

- Brooke C. Hsu, E/PO Lead
- _Brooke.L.Carter@nasa.gov_
- 301-867-2112
- Sarah Dewitt, PAO Lead
- _Sarah.Dewitt@nasa.gov_
- 301-286-0535