CALENDAR OF NASA WEBCASTS

Interactive Webcasts: NASA field team participants will be:

"NASA Mike" Comberiate, Team Lleader and Rocket Scientist
Dr. Kathryn Clark, NASA Chief Scientist for Human Development and Exploration of Space
Ken Anderson, NASA EOS-Aqua Instrument Manager
Dr. Gunther Kleteschka, Geologist
Andre Fortin and Kevin Ballou, NASA Engineers for software and communications
Christopher Morris, NASA Logistics Chief

4/21 from TBD site in Resolute Bay. Audience will include GSFC Visitor Center, Maryland and Longway Planetarium, Flint MI. Viewers and the NASA field team will download satellite images from our website and discuss how NASA is using remote sensing to studying the Earth Processes involved in the global climate. Will also review the weather images from NOAA and DMSP satellites and discuss them in terms of the logistics involved in the trip to the Pole. Will also review satellite images from Landsat, Terra and IceSat of the area and how scientists are using those data to understand the environment. Various types of satellite imagery will be discussed showing the wide range of data products that scientists are deriving from the Earth Observing System missions already on-orbit.

4/23 from Eureka Weather Station. This will be a special Distance Learning Session with three schools in the USA, covering topics from their Earth Science curricula on the Cryosphere. The schools will be Northwest HS in Maryland, Red Cloud HS in South Dakota, and Indian Valley MS in Pennsylvania. Again satellite imagery from the MODIS instrument on Terra and very high resolution images of RB and Eureka from Landsat-7 will be made available via the website for discussions.

4/24 (or 4/25 if weather prevents traveling to the Pole on 4/24) from North Pole. Dr. Kathryn Clark, Chief NASA scientist for all Life Science programs, will interview 12 women skiers from "WomenQuest", who have just reached the Pole after a hazardous two-week trek. Senator Stabenow of Michigan may participate in the live interactive interview because of the team's connection to Michigan State University and its online educational component to inspire girls and young women in learning math and science.

4/26 from the Haughton Crater. This is the site of a NASA's Mars Analog training facility for the eventual habitation of the planet Mars. The Field team will be on the site and will hold an interactive webcast with the Director of the project, Dr. Pascal Lee, while he is at NASA Ames in California. Again the topic will focus on the Life Science issues involved in this project. It will also include a discussion of the local geology, and high resolution Landsat images will be available for viewers to download.

4/27 from the K-12 school in Resolute Bay. This will be a special Life Science Lecture to Western Reserve Academy in Ohio, by Dr. Clark on NASA's manned missions. Students from the Qarmartalik High School will be actively involved in a question/answer session following the lecture. Active audience participation is encouraged.

4/29 from Ice Station Borneo. This is a contingency opportunity for Polar Trek only if all else fails.

Following the return of the field team, edited video segments will be produced that may be downloaded from the website, which will include the scenes of the arctic sea ice obtained during our low-altitude flights from 75 N to the Pole. Prior to these webcasts, satellite images and videos from earlier missions in the area will be made available so the students participating in the distance-learning sessions can better understand the environment and prepare intelligent questions on the subjects to be discussed.

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