CALIPSO - Workshops

Educator Workshops

NASA Satellites Study Earth’s Atmosphere: CALIPSO, CloudSat and Aura working with the GLOBE Program

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CALIPSO, CloudSat, and Aura are three satellite-based research missions that will provide students globally with a link to NASA research through their education and outreach programs. Each of these satellites is scheduled to be included in a formation of six satellites known as the Afternoon Satellite Constellation, or A-Train. These satellites will fly in close proximity, providing combined detailed observations about the condition of Earth. CALIPSO and CloudSat will use remote sensing instruments that are unique to their mission for data collection. CloudSat will use radar and provide a global survey of cloud properties to aid with improving cloud models and the accuracy of weather forecasts. CALIPSO will use lidar to detect size and distribution of aerosols to improve our understanding of the role aerosols and clouds play in Earth’s climate system. Two educator workshops titled NASA Satellites Study Earth’s Atmosphere: CALIPSO, CloudSat and Aura working with the GLOBE Program are currently scheduled for the summers of 2004 and 2005. These workshops will target middle school educators who will work with the CALIPSO, CloudSat and Aura missions to involve students in reporting visual cloud observations and sun photometer data collection through the GLOBE program website.

Contacts:

Dianne Q. Robinson, CALIPSO Outreach Director, Hampton University

Email: dianne.robinson@hamptonu.edu

Phone: 757-727-5869

Barbara H. Maggi, CALIPSO Assistant Outreach Director, Hampton University

Email: barbara.maggi@hamptonu.edu

Phone: 757-727-5869

URLS:

http://calipsooutreach.hamptonu.edu

http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/

http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/

http://www.globe.gov

CCAG Workshop participants interested in submitting an article to the NASA Portal should use the following guidelines:
in PDF Format
as a Word Document


NASA Langley Research Center	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Institut Pierre Simon Laplace	Hampton University

CALIPSO is a collaboration between NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), the French space agency CNES, Hampton University, the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The primary roles and contributions of these partners can be found at http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov. This mission is part of NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program, a series of missions designed to examine critical issues in Earth system science.