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Please join us for a NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance Science Conversation with Michael King, Senior Project Scientist of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS).

Details:
Event:                  NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance (ESMA)
Telecon Topic:          "The View from Space"
Date:                   Thursday, June 22, 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
Resources:              Download Presentation from the Museum Alliance website (will be posted by Thursday morning)
                                http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Earth/?Filename=Conversations&SubNav=Conversations

To register for the Museum Alliance (first time only)
                http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/alliance/
                               
Additional Resources:
MODIS Atmosphere http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NOTE:   This presentation contains a slide show and quite a few movies and, in the interest of time and efficiency, it would be best for you to download *all* presentation materials ahead of time and to play them from your local machine during the talk.

Summary
Through its Earth Observing System (EOS), NASA is gathering the most detailed global climate data set ever assembled.  The EOS Program supports some 16 Earth-observing satellites currently in orbit; EOS supports 781 scientists worldwide to conduct interdisciplinary climate research; EOS supports one of the most robust data systems ever devised -- bringing down Terabytes of data per day and sharing them with scientists worldwide. Arguably one of the most ambitious scientific enterprises ever undertaken, the goal of the EOS Program is to help scientists understand Earth's climate system well enough to construct accurate computer models of it.  But in order to construct such models, scientists must account for both natural variation in the system and human-induced changes.  While the EOS Program is still relatively young and only beginning to approach the "sweet spot" in terms of NASA's scientific return on the investment, the space-based images produced to date reveal Earth's 
astonishing beauty, complexity, natural hazards, and climatic and environmental phenomena at work.  They also reveal the magnitude that humans have attained as a new force for change on our world.  Michael King, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will highlight EOS satellite observations of how the Earth is changing and the vital role EOS plays in helping scientists understand the causes and effects of these changes.

Biography/Profile
Dr. Michael King is Senior Project Scientist of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) and Head of the Atmosphere Discipline Group of the MODIS science team on the Terra and Aqua satellites. Dr. King is a recipient of the Verner E. Suomi Award of the AMS for fundamental contributions to remote sensing and radiative transfer. He is a Goddard Senior Fellow and recipient of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and NASA Exceptional Service Medal. He has also received the William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science, Goddard's highest scientific achievement award.

We hope you can join us.
Joel Halvorson - SMM
David Herring - NASA/GSFC
Anita Sohus - NASA/JPL
Maurice Henderson - NASA/GSFC

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