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Dear museum colleagues,
I would like to invite you to join the NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance (ESMA). An outcome of the NASA Explore Institutes, the ESMA was created as a forum for informal education and NASA professionals to work together. A main feature of this collaboration is regularly scheduled science presentations featuring leading NASA researchers. The first presentation of 2006 features Dr. Peter H. Hildebrand, Chief of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Laboratory at NASA-GSFC. Further details are below.
I hope you can join us,
Joel Halvorson
PI – NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance
Science Museum of Minnesota
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Dear ESMA Participants,
Please join us for our first NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance (ESMA) telecom of 2006, featuring Dr. Peter H. Hildebrand, Chief of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Laboratory at NASA-GSFC.
Event:Earth-Sun Museum Alliance telecom: Water for Life on Earth
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2006, 3pm EDT
Format: telecon discussion, Q&A
Access: 888-323-4924 (toll-free dial-in number)
PASSCODE: Earth
Audience: Museum Alliance
Duration: 60 minutes
www site: http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Earth/
To register (first time only)
http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/alliance/
Water for Life on Earth
The cycling of water is intimately linked with energy exchanges among the atmosphere, ocean, and land that determine the Earth's climate and cause much of natural climate variability. As stated in the National Research Council's report on Research Pathways for the Next Decade (NRC, 1999): "Water is at the heart of both the causes and effects of climate change." Next to assessing the potential for global warming, determining the consequences of global change for weather, precipitation, and hydrologic regimes is the paramount challenge of climate science.
Please join us on Thursday, January 26, at 3 p.m. EDT when Dr. Peter H. Hildebrand, will explore these questions as he brings us all up to date on the state of the science.
Resourses:
· Telecon Powerpoint presentation
· http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Earth/
Other Resources:
· Goddard Hydrospheric & Biospheric Sciences: http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov
· Goddard Water Cycle: http://watercycle.gsfc.nasa.gov
· US Global Change Research Program: http://www.usgcrp.gov/
· UN Environmental Program: http://www.unep.org/
· Climate change figures: http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/index.htm
· USDA Foreign Agricultural Service: http://www.fas.usda.gov/grain/circular/2004/05-04/graintoc.htm
· Worldwatch: http://www.worldwatch.org/
Dr. Hildebrand’s presentation will be the first presentation of the year, and will kick-off our new proposed ESMA schedule of hosting science presentations the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. A schedule of upcoming presenters will be distributed soon.
We hope you can join us.
Joel Halvorson - SMM
David Herring - NASA/GSFC
Anita Sohus - NASA/JPL
Maurice Henderson - NASA/GSFC
PS. Please feel free to pass this information along to other colleagues
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