# Presentation: 576237

## Aura Education and Public Outreach Program Update

**Stephanie Stockman**
**Jeannie Allen**
**Brooke Carter**
**Ernest Hilsenrath**
***Aura Science Team Meeting***
***Netherlands***
***November 2005***

## Aura EPO Components

**  ****American Chemical Society**
**  ****GLOBE School Program and Teacher Workshops**
**  ****Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History**
**   ****Smaller Museum Programs**
**   ****Other Post Launch Initiatives**

## Fourth issue of ChemMatters published September 2005 

**with the AmericanChemical Society**
**  ****How the Earth Got it’s Aura. **
**  ****Flight of the WB-57.   **
**  ****What’s so Equal about Equilibrium **
**  ****Clearing the Air-Treaties to Treatments**
**  ****Student Gardens Monitor Air Quality**

_**http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\curriculum\chemmatters\issue_arch.html**_

## Aura Poster - Developed with the American Chemical Society

**Aura Poster - Developed with the American Chemical Society**

**Submitted to NASA Earth Science Education Product Review **
**Possible inclusion in IPY packet**
**13,000 posters available**

## Post Launch Activities with ACS

**  ****Multi-media CD**
**  ****Include Aura ChemMatters Issues and Teachers Guides**
**  ****Video interviews with Aura scientists and engineers**
**  ****Aura Launch Video**
**  ****Visualizations of Aura data**
**  ****Aura articles from Earth Observatory**
**  ****High School Chemistry Clubs**
**  ****Pilot after school program**
**  ****Aura EPO is providing content and activities**
**  ****Looking for Aura team members to interact with clubs in their area**

## GLOBE-A Train  Atmospheric Sciences Workshop for Teachers  Summer 2006 and 2007

**2006 workshop at NASA Langley hosted by Cloudsat/Calipso**
**2007 workshop at JPL hosted by Aura**
**Participants will learn GLOBE protocols for surface ozone, aerosols, UV, and clouds. **
**Focus will be on NASA educators who work with NASA Explorer Schools**
**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. **

## Surface Ozone Project;  Ozone Biomonitoring Gardens

**Ozone biomonitoring garden program developed by LARC, and  U.S. National Park Service, Great Smoky Mountains NP as part of the “Hands on the Land (**_[http://handsonthealnd.org](http://handsonthealnd.org/)_**)**
**Includes the ****USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Natural Resource Conservation Service**
**The Aura EPO is helping to set up sites for ozone monitoring stations and “ozone biomonitoring gardens” at federal research visitor centers including the GSFC Visitor Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Patuxent Wildlife Visitor Center**** **
**Aura EPO partners, including the Maryland Science Center participated in a Summer 2005 workshop**

**Surface Ozone Project;  Ozone Biomonitoring Gardens**
**(I. Ladd and J. Fishman, LaRC)**

## GLOBE in the Netherlands

**Involves the validation of satellite AOT using a handheld sunphotometer**
**Featured in article on NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Partnerships/**

**GLOBE in the Netherlands**
**http://www.knmi.nl/globe/index_en.html**

## Smithsonian NMNH Exhibit“Change 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*.*

## 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**.*

## Slide 11

## 	     Other Exhibit Features

-    Milky Way zoom-in to Smithsonian on Washington Mall
-    Aura 1/8 model
-    TOMS Engineering Model
-    Antarctic Ozone Hole Movie 1996-2004
- (TOMS+OMI)
-    “Funny Garbage” - Cartoon illustrating reactivity
-       of O2 and O3
-    Terra Incognita - Interactive: Earth with Low,
-    Existing, High O2, O3, CO2

## Exhibit Educational Extensions

**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**
**Will become traveling exhibit jointly by Aura and the Smithsonian**

## January 2006!!

## Working with Small Museums

**Working with Small Museums**

**Earth Explorer Institutes “Earth by Aura: Ultraviolet Radiation Data Collection By and For the Public”**
**  ****Funded through NASA Education Office and NASA Earth Sciences**
**  ****Includes Maryland Science Center in Baltimore and Bishop Museum in Honolulu **
**  ****Project materials will be shared by other Museums in the EEI network**

## What’s Next?  Additional Post Launch Activities

**What’s Next?  Additional Post Launch Activities**

**  ****Articles  for Earth Observatory including validation campaigns**
**  ****Aura Science and Validation results brochure**
**  ****Aura poster for exhibits and education presentations**
**  ****Aura “The Movie”**
**  ****Aura “The Poster**
**  ****Aura Involvement in IPY**
**Explore expanding Aura GLOBE effort to Finland**