Earth Science Week Oct 9 - 15

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Comment by Richard Varner on October 4, 2011 at 11:41am

Here are some resources and Earth Science Week 2011 connections from NASA:

Earth Science Week 2011 (October 9-15, 2011) "Our Ever-Changing Earth"

 URL: climate.nasa.gov/esw2011

 

Here is a schedule of events:

 

Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 ­ ESW Introduction/Promo Video- This will give you

information about the Earth Science Week Kit.

climate.nasa.gov/esw2011

 

 

Monday, Oct. 10 ­ ESW Introduction/Promo Video- This will give you

information about the Earth Science Week Kit.

climate.nasa.gov/esw2011

 

Tuesday, Oct. 11 ­ Female Earth Scientists ‹ articles on the NASA education

portal will be broadcast a part of the NASA Earth and Space Science

Explorers series .

 

During Earth Science Week, Wednesday, Oct. 12, is Female Geoscientist Day

IGES is producing the following articles on NASA female Earth scientists

that will be posted on the NASA education portal, the NASA 2011 NASA ESW

site and working on also linking to these from Women@NASA.

 

 

1) Cynthia Rosenzweig, GISS - Rosenzweig is a Senior ResearchScientist at

the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate

Impacts Group. She is a co-editor of the report ³Climate Change and Cities:

First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

(ARC3).² A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she joins impact models

with climate models to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban

systems under altered climate conditions.

 

(2) Erika Podest, JPL  - Originally from Panama, Podest is a scientist with

the Water and Carbon Cycles Group in JPL´s Earth Science Division and

Visiting Associate Researcher in the Joint Institute for Regional Earth

System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) at UCLA. Her research focuses on

using Earth observing satellites for characterizing and monitoring wetland

ecosystems and seasonal freeze/thaw dynamics in the northern high latitudes

as related to the global carbon and water cycles and climate change.

 

(3) Erica Alston, LaRC - Alston grew up in North Carolina. She works with

the Chemistry and Dynamics Branch of the Science Directorate at NASA¹s

Langley Research Center. Her work focuses on national fisheries resources

and atmospheric science, including air quality.

 

(4) Claire Parkinson, GSFC - Claire Parkinson has been Project Scientist for

the Aqua mission (formerly PM-1) since the spring of 1993. She's a

climatologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she's worked

since July 1978, with a research emphasis on sea ice and its role in the

global climate system.

 

 

Wednesday, Oct. 12/1-2pm ET ­ Our Ever-Changing Earth: NASA¹s Power of

Perspective - DLN Webcast with NASA's Chief Scientist, Waleed Abdalati

Earth Science and YOU!

Join NASA Goddard Space Flight Center LIVE for an educational event as

scientists share how NASA¹s space-based perspective provides a window on

changes within the Earth system on a global scale. Middle and high school

students are invited to view this webcast and learn how earth science is all

around!

 

Earth Science and YOU!

Earth is a dynamic system that, like the human body, includes diverse parts

interacting in complex ways.  Join NASA specialists live on October 12th at

1:00 PM Eastern for an hour-long educational event as NASA scientists share

how NASA¹s space-based perspective provides a window on changes and

interactions within the Earth system on a global scale!  This special event

will explore topics such as Earth¹s atmosphere, the Texas Drought and other

recent weather phenomena, and climate chan