SESDA II staff help with the studies of sulfur dioxide and ash from Mount Merapi, Java, Indonesia
Posted On: December 10, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff working at the GES DISC have developed a visualization tool named Giovanni (GES DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure). Giovanni provides data from several NASA satellites that allow monitoring of the atmospheric effects of the Merapi eruption. The Ozone Monitoring Instrument Level 2 Gridded (OMIL2G) interface provides daily SO2 data, which […]
Live from New Orleans: SESDA II Staff Implement One of the World’s Fastest Networks
Posted On: November 18, 2010Comments: No Responses
For part of November, with the help of SESDA II’s High End Computing Network (HECN) staff, New Orleans is home to one of the fastest computer networks anywhere in the world. Called SCinet, the network is created each year exclusively for “SC”, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. This year’s […]
SDO is Go for Launch!
Posted On: November 2, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff organized multiple events to celebrate and support the successful launch on 11 February 2010 of the much anticipated Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) – the first mission in NASA’s Living with a Star Program. The team held a workshop at Kennedy Space Center for 80 teachers and ran activity tables during two days […]
GES DISC provides CO2 data from Japanese GOSAT
Posted On: November 2, 2010Comments: No Responses
Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) Project data set archived at GES DISC SESDA II staff working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) helped stand up the CO2 column-averaged dry air mole fraction data generated from measurements obtained by the Japanese Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) platform. These data […]
Study the Sun during Solar Week
Posted On: November 2, 2010Comments: No Responses
If you are interested in learning all about our nearest star, the Sun, then Solar Week is for you: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/sunearthsystem/main/SolarWeek2010.htm This annual series of web-based educational activities is designed to help upper elementary to high school level students learn about topics and careers in Solar physics by asking questions to professional scientists. Since the project […]
Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Meeting
Posted On: November 1, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff are supporting the international Group on Earth Observations (GEO) meeting in Bejing, China, in October. More than eighty countries will be represented. Presentations by the group include the Dynamic Planet exhibit. A poster developed for the US Health Showcase is shown in the figure.
SESDA II Visits Saturn
Posted On: September 14, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff were involved in yet another exciting discovery by the Cassini spacecraft's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). A special flyby of Saturn's moon, Mimas, revealed an unexpected thermal heating pattern that scientists are scrambling to explain. Staff participated in the find through their creation and uplink of CIRS command sequences for the observation as […]
JWST Gotchu!
Posted On: September 14, 2010Comments: No Responses
A recent segment on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” featured cast member (and Hubble Space Telescope enthusiast) “Milky J” traveling to GSFC in mock protest of the James Webb Space Telescope. SESDA II staff member Maggie Masetti supports the JWST public affairs office and social media effort for the project and so she was right […]
Educate to Innovate
Posted On: September 8, 2010Comments: No Responses
Dec 7, 2009 On November 23, 2009, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, supported by SESDA II staff members, participated in the launch of President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" Campaign for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Education. The event was held in the South Court Auditorium at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building. […]
New NASA Backlit Exhibit Booth by SESDA Outreach Staff
Posted On: August 3, 2010Comments: One Response
SESDA outreach staff procured and created cross-platform, data imagery content for a brand new backlit exhibit booth. This new booth will make its debut during the upcoming Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual meeting to be held in Pittsburgh, PA August 1-6, 2010.
