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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 23, 2010

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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Webinar Presentation: Steve Ackerman (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS) recently conducted a web seminar from Madison, Wisconsin entitled “Monitoring Climate Change from Space” to an audience of thirty-two K-12 educators from California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The webinar was the fourth in a series on climate change sponsored by NOAA and began with historical information on satellite missions to monitor Earth's climate before discussing remote sensing basics and providing an overview of 21st century satellite applications to monitor changes in surface, atmospheric, and solar processes. At the end of the session, Margaret Mooney (CIMSS) gave an overview of online satellite resources that teachers can use in their classrooms. An archive of the webinar can be viewed on-line at http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/fall09/NOAA/webseminar4.aspx. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263,3647, M. Mooney, CIMSS, 608-265-2123)

ASPB participation at the AMS annual meetings: Both A. Heidinger and T. Schmit gave invited oral presentations at the 6th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, which was part of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) annual meeting in Atlanta. The presentations were “Expected Operational Cloud Observation Improvements with Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)/National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)” and “The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R”. T. Schmit also showed a poster on “A Weather Event Simulator (WES) for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)”. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov; T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

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