ED43C:
Scientist Engagement in Education and Public Outreach: Sharing Effective Tools, Resources, and Stories of Success III Posters

Session ID#: 5058

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States and Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Co-conveners:  Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States, Brooke C Hsu, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Laurel, MD, United States and M Alexandra Matiella Novak, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Promoting Scientist Communications Through Graduate Summer School in Heliophysics and Space Physics (27983)
Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States, Karel Schrijver, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Jan Josef Sojka, Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States and Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
 
NSF-supported education/outreach program takes young researchers to the Arctic (30492)
Vladimir A Alexeev1, John E Walsh2, Regine Hock2, Irina Repina3, Ute Kaden2 and Lindsay Bartholomew4, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Inst Atmospheric Physic, Moscow, Russia, (4)Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL, United States
 
Initiating New Science Partnerships in Rural Education: STEM Graduate Students Bring Current Research into 7th-12th Grade Science Classrooms (23317)
Sarah Radencic1, Kelli Sewell Dawkins2, Brenda S Jackson2, Ryan M. Walker1, Darrel Schmitz1, Donna Pierce1, William Keith Funderburk3 and Karen McNeal4, (1)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (2)Starkville High School, Starkville, MS, United States, (3)The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus, MS, United States, (4)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
 
Project SMART: A UNH-Sponsored Outreach Program for High School Students (13176)
Charles William Smith, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Louis Broad, Timberlane Regional HIgh School, Plaistow, NH, United States, Scott Goelzer, Coe-Brown Academy, Northwood, NH, United States and Richard Levergood, Londonderry High School, Londonderry, NH, United States
 
Student and Community Engagement in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences Through Experiential Learning and Citizen Science as Part of Research Broader Impact (31939)
Alaa I. Ibrahim1, Richard Tutwiler2, Ashraf Zakey3, Mohammed E. Shokr4, Yasmin AboEl Fetouh1, Dina Jereidini5, Mohammad Eid5 and PEER Project 2-239 Education & Outreach, (1)American University in Cairo, School of Sciences and Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, (2)American University in Cairo, Research Institute for Sustainable Environment, Cairo, Egypt, (3)The Egyptian Meteorological Authority, Cairo, Egypt, (4)Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
 
Development of Experience-based Learning about Atmospheric Environment with Quantitative Viewpoint aimed at Education for Sustainable Development (21113)
Yoshinori Saitoh and Hiroshi Tago, Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Atmospheric Environment Section, Maebashi, Japan
 
Communicating the Science of Nasa's Maven Mission through Public Engagement (10680)
Tom Mason, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Laura M Peticolas, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, United States, Erin L Wood, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and MAVEN Education and Public Outreach
 
Communicating Geoscience through Geoheritage: The Chaine Des Puys and Limagne Fault Unesco World Heritage Project. (6421)
Cecile Olive-Garcia, Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 
NASA’s Planetary Science E/PO Forum: Reflections on Five Years of Effort to Support an E/PO Community (31104)
Stephanie Staples Shipp1, Susan Shebby2, Sanlyn Buxner3, Don Boonstra4, Emily A Cobabe-Ammann5, Whitney H Cobb6, Heather Dalton1, JA Grier7, Sheri Klug Boonstra8, Keliann LaConte1, John Daniel Ristvey Jr5, Christine B Shupla1, Sandra Weeks6, Alice S Wessen1 and Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman1, (1)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, Denver, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (4)Self Employed, Chandler, AZ, United States, (5)UCAR Community Programs, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)McREL International, Denver, CO, United States, (7)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)Mars Space Flight Facility, ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Tools for Scientist Engagement in E/PO: NASA SMD Community Workspace and Online Resources (31817)
Heather Dalton1, Stephanie Staples Shipp1, JA Grier2, Nicholas A Gross3, Sanlyn Buxner4, Ms. Lindsay Marie Bartolone5, Laura M Peticolas6, Morgan Woroner7 and Theresa G Schwerin8, (1)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (5)Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, United States, (6)Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, United States, (7)IGES, Arlington, VA, United States, (8)Organization Not Listed, Arlington, VA, United States
 
Tools for Engaging Scientists in Education and Public Outreach: Resources from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Forums (31049)
Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, JA Grier, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, Bonnie K Meinke, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States and Morgan Woroner, IGES, Arlington, VA, United States
 
NASA SMD E/PO Community Addresses the needs of the Higher Ed Community: Introducing Slide sets for the Introductory Earth and Space Science Instructor (30935)
Sanlyn Buxner1, Bonnie K Meinke2, David Brain3, Nicholas McCord Schneider4, Gregory R Schultz5, Denise A Smith2, JA Grier6, Stephanie Staples Shipp7 and NASA Astrophysics and Planetary Science E/PO Community, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (2)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
 
Engaging Scientists in Meaningful E/PO: NASA Science4Girls and Their Families (30173)
Bonnie K Meinke1, Denise A Smith1, Lora Bleacher2, Karin Hauck3, Cassie Soeffing4 and NASA SMD E/PO Community, (1)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Education and Public Outreach, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States
 
Reverse Asteroids: Searching for an Effective Tool to Combat Asteroid Belt Misconceptions (10471)
Frank Summers and Bonnie Eisenhamer, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
The "Space Weather" Exhibit at the Children's Discovery Museum of West Virginia (5633)
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, Julie Bryan, Children's Discovery Museum of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, United States and Jeffrey Carver, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Visualizing Space Weather: The Planeterrella Auroral Simulator as a Heliophysics Public Outreach Tool (27663)
Emmanuel V Masongsong1, Jean Lilensten2, Mackenzie J Booth3, Gautam Suri3, Thomas G Heflinger3 and Vassilis Angelopoulos1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)IPAG, Grenoble, France, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2. (17930)
Ranjeet Devarakonda, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Thornton, P.E., M.M. Thornton, B.W. Mayer, N. Wilhelmi, Y. Wei, and R.B. Cook.
 
The Whole World In Your Hands: Using an Interactive Virtual Reality Sandbox for Geospatial Education and Outreach (27290)
Tania Clucas, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Greg S Wirth, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geographic Information Network of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Dayne Broderson, GINA, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
PLANETarium Pilot: visualizing PLANET Earth inside-out on the planetarium’s full-dome (29033)
Maxim Ballmer, UCL, Dept. of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom and Tobias Wiethoff, Planetarium Bochum, Bochum, Germany
 
Social Media and Student Engagement in a Microgravity Planetary Science Experiment (25661)
Sara Sylvia Lane1, Kelly Lai1, Bradley Hoover1, Allyson Whitaker1, Christopher Tiller1, Samuel Benjamin1, Adrienne Dove2 and Joshua E Colwell3, (1)University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Steven W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research, Orlando, FL, United States, (3)University of Central Florida, Physics, Orlando, FL, United States
 
The Community Cloud Atlas – Building an Informed Cloud Watching Community (22600)
Nick Guy, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States; Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorology Studies, Norman, OK, United States and Angela K Rowe, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Crowdsourced Contributions to the Nation’s Geodetic Elevation Infrastructure (20306)
William A Stone, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
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