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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Co-conveners:  Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Brooke C Hsu, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Laurel, MD, United States and M Alexandra Matiella Novak, Johns Hopkins University APL, Laurel, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Promoting Scientist Communications Through Graduate Summer School in Heliophysics and Space Physics
Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Karel Schrijver, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Fran Bagenal, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Jan Josef Sojka, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Michael James Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
NSF-supported education/outreach program takes young researchers to the Arctic
Vladimir A Alexeev1, John E Walsh1, Regine Hock1, Irina Repina2, Ute Kaden1 and Lindsay Bartholomew3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Inst Atmospheric Physic, Moscow, Russia, (3)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
Sarah Radencic1, Kelli Sewell Dawkins2, Brenda Jackson2, Ryan M. Walker1, Darrel Schmitz1, Donna Pierce1, William K. 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
 
Planetary Science Education – Workshop Concepts for Classrooms and Internships
Stefanie Musiol, Heike Rosenberg, Gertrude Rohwer, Heike Balthasar and Stephan van Gasselt, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 
Project SMART: A UNH-Sponsored Outreach Program for High School Students
Charles William Smith, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, 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
Alaa I. Ibrahim1, Richard Tutwiler2, Ashraf Zakey3, Mohammed E. Shokr4, Yasmin Ahmed1, Dina Jereidini5 and Mohammad Eid5, (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
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
Tom Mason, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Laura M Peticolas, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Erin L Wood, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Communicating Geoscience through Geoheritage: The Chaine Des Puys and Limagne Fault Unesco World Heritage Project.
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
Stephanie Staples Shipp1, Susan Shebby2, Sanlyn Buxner3, Don Boonstra4, Emily A Cobabe-Ammann5, Whitney H Cobb6, Heather Dalton1, Jennifer Grier3, Sheri L Klug Boonstra7, Keliann LaConte1, John Ristvey5, Christine B Shupla1, Sandra Weeks8, 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, CO, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Self Employed, Chandler, AZ, United States, (5)UCAR Community Programs, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)McREL, Denver, CO, United States, (7)Mars Space Flight Facility, ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (8)McREL International, Denver, CO, United States
 
Tools for Scientist Engagement in E/PO: NASA SMD Community Workspace and Online Resources
Heather Dalton1, Stephanie Staples Shipp1, Jennifer Grier2, Nicholas A Gross3, Sanlyn Buxner2, Lindsay Bartolone4, Laura M Peticolas5, Morgan Woroner6 and Theresa G Schwerin7, (1)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)IGES, Arlington, VA, United States, (7)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Tools for Engaging Scientists in Education and Public Outreach: Resources from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Forums
Sanlyn Buxner1, Jennifer Grier1, Bonnie K Meinke2, Nicholas A Gross3 and Morgan Woroner4, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (4)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
Sanlyn Buxner1, Bonnie K Meinke2, David Brain3, Nicholas McCord Schneider4, Gregory R Schultz5, Denise A Smith2, Jennifer Grier1 and Stephanie Staples Shipp6, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, 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, CO, United States, (5)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
 
Engaging Scientists in Meaningful E/PO: NASA Science4Girls and Their Families
Bonnie K Meinke1, Denise A Smith1, Lora Bleacher2, Karin Hauck3 and Cassie Soeffing4, (1)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)IGES, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
 
Reverse Asteroids: Searching for an Effective Tool to Combat Asteroid Belt Misconceptions
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
Paul Cassak1, Julie Bryan2 and Jeffrey Carver1, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)Children's Discovery Museum of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Visualizing Space Weather: The Planeterrella Auroral Simulator as a Heliophysics Public Outreach Tool
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.
Ranjeet Devarakonda, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
The Whole World In Your Hands: Using an Interactive Virtual Reality Sandbox for Geospatial Education and Outreach
Tania Clucas, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Greg S Wirth, Geographic Information Network of Alaska - UAF, 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
Maxim D. Ballmer, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Tobias Wiethoff, Planetarium Bochum, Bochum, Germany
 
Social Media and Student Engagement in a Microgravity Planetary Science Experiment
Sara Sylvia Lane, Kelly Lai, Bradley Hoover, Allyson Whitaker, Christopher Tiller, Samuel Benjamin, Adrienne Dove and Joshua E Colwell, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
 
The Community Cloud Atlas – Building an Informed Cloud Watching Community
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 Rowe, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Crowdsourced Contributions to the Nation’s Geodetic Elevation Infrastructure
William A Stone, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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