# Presentation: 844378

## EPO Working Group Report

**Stephanie Stockman**
**Jeannie Allen**
**Ernest Hilsenrath**
***Aura Science Team Meeting***
***Pasadena, CA***
***March 2005***

## Aura EPO Components

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

## 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?DOC=education\curriculum\chemmatters\issue_arch.html**_

## Aura Poster - Developed with the American Chemical Society

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

##  Two New Publications

** ****Two New Publications**
** ****on NASA’s Earth Observatory Web site**

***2.  *****Article: ***** Enhancing Research and Education through Partnerships***
_**http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Partnerships**__** **_

***1.  Aura Fact Sheet ***_**http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Aura/**_

**A total of six articles now appear in the EarthObservatory site**

## 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. **

## A-train workshop participants 2004

**A-train workshop participants 2004**

## Regional workshop at Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, MD

**January 26, 2005**

**July 2004 Colorado workshop participant Mary Ellsworth, Gallaudet University, teaches atmosphere protocols**

## 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**

## Surface Ozone Project;  Ozone Biomonitoring Gardens

**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 Service’s Patuxent Wildlife Visitor Center **

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

## Collaboration with NOAA 

**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 ship’s crew and teachers making daily ozone, UV, and/or aerosols measurements **** **

**Collaboration with NOAA **
**“****Emerging Scientists Program”**

## 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 14

## 	     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
- (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**

## Summer 2005!

##               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. **