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Please join us for the next NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance Science Conversation
Thursday, March 9th, at 3 p.m. EST.

Dr. Robert Bindschadler, Chief Scientist with NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, will share current findings from space, which are helping scientist better understand the role of ice in the Earth's climate

Details:
Event:	Earth-Sun  Museum  Alliance (ESMA)  telecom: Who Left the Freezer Door Open?
Date:	Thursday,  March  9th,  2006,  3pm  EST
Format:	telecon  discussion,  Q&A
Access:	888-323-4924  (toll-free  dial-in  number)          
       	PASSCODE:  Earth
Audience:	ESMA Museum Alliance (all informal science education professionals are welcome!)
Duration:	60  minutes
www site:	informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Earth/ 
                	To register (first time only) 
                	informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/alliance/
 
Summary:
Who Left the Freezer Door Open?
Satellite data have documented ice shelves disintegrating, permafrost melting, and other large-scale environmental changes. What’s happening and what’s next? Dr Robert Bindschadler, chief scientist, with NASA’s Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, will help uncover some of these mysteries, and share what scientist are leaning about the Earth's ice from earth observing satellites.

Resourses: 
Telecon presentation 
http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Earth/ 
Other Resources: 
International Polar Year: www.ipy.org and us-ipy.org 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: www.ipcc.ch 
US Global Change Research Program: www.usgcrp.gov 
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment www.acia.uaf.edu 
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative: igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov/wais 
Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory: neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov 
Climate change figures: www.grida.no/climate/vital/index.htm 
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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