OST/ST, March 2006 - Outreach Session Page 1 Outreach splinter session summary

OST/ST, March 2006 - Outreach Session

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Outreach splinter session

summary


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Agenda

• Past & future activities• Basic radar altimetry toolbox & tutorial• New material for teaching oceanography• OST Users & Applications• Supporting ocean literacy• Reaching the public via media efforts• Climate change, sea level rise and the polar

regions: Using visuals to promote public understanding

• Showcase of SWT outreach products


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2006-2007 activities

Jason 5th Anniversary/Ocean Literacy Bookmark

OSTM lithograph Jason-1 lithograph updated New Science result posters Outreach program begun for Jason-2/OSTM Continued highlights of societal benefits 2007 wall calendar 3D images and animations Mean Sea Level section in Aviso web site

(http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/msl/)


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Outreach products showcase

One or a few slide(s) with some information on your outreach activity, 2 minutes to present it

A quick-view of outreach activities A good range of products presented, every scope, every public:

Ocean Weather Forecasting book (J. Verron / E. Chassignet)

Noaa/AOML altimetry product web http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/satprod/ (G. Goni)

DORIS Special Issue in Journal of Geodesy (G. Tavernier / International Doris Service)

New IDS web site (G. Tavernier / International Doris Service)

« Courants d’air, courants d’eau », a public exhibition held in Nouméa (C. Maes)

Mean Sea Level web site http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/msl/ (Aviso/CLS/Cnes/Legos)

Jason 5th Anniversary / Ocean Literacy Bookmark (A. Richardson)

OSCAR surface currents (http://www.oscar.noaa.gov) soon used in the Ocean in Motion educational web site http://www.oceanmotion.org (G. Lagerloef / F. Bonjean)

Outreach Activities at the University of Washington (K. Kelly, L. Thompson)

Aquarius web pages http://aquarius.jpl.nasa.gov (Y. Chao)


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Education


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Argonautica

CNES project, adopted by JPLA new US school (New York)

Beacon tracking + ocean maps (altimetry, Mercator, SST, …)

About 20 beacons in operation (oceanographic buoys, Albatrosses, elephant seals, penguins, Argo float, …)

Google Earth visualization now available

2 fact-sheets (a buoy around an eddy, a buoy along a major current), in French, with animations


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Ocean Literacy

Ocean Literacy project: define the Essential Principles of Ocean Sciences for students & the general public

The ocean literacy network is a consortium of education, government and non-governmental organizations committed to establishing an ocean-literate public

An ocean-literate person: Understands the essential principles and fundamental concepts about the functioning of the ocean; Can communicate about the ocean in a meaningful way; and Is able to make informed and responsible decisions regarding the ocean

and its resources.

www.coexploration.org/oceanliteracy for details and to obtain the document


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Ocean Literacy Essential Principles

The ocean literacy network determined seven essential principles that everyone should know about the ocean:1. Earth has one big ocean with many features. 2. The ocean and life in the ocean shape the features of Earth.3. The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate.4. The ocean makes Earth habitable.5. The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.6. The ocean and humans are inextricably linked.7. The ocean is largely unexplored.

OST science objectives can be directly related to ocean literacy principles and concepts & provide content for ocean literacy educational products


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Supporting ocean literacy (A. Richardson)

OST Education and Public Outreach Proposed Ocean Literacy Products Web-based activities to complement poster/board game Educator & Student workshops Multi-project, multi-partner poster and/or board game

• NASA (Jason-1, OSTM/Jason-2, QuikSCAT, GRACE)• CNES• COSEE-West• National Marine Educators Association• Sea Grant Educators Network• TAMU• UC California Lawrence Hall of Science


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New material for teaching oceanography

R. Stewart, Texas A&M University

Following the Ocean Literacy project conclusions

a textbook based on problems that emphasize the connections among earth systems and the contributions of NASA to understanding oceans.

Available online: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/


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Users & Applications outreach


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Applications update (M. Srinivasan)

CCAR:12 years of partnership with NASA/JPL E.g. users:

• Intra-Americas Sea Trials• Hilton’s Realtime Navigator• Ocean color & SSH

view ocean eddies Google Earth as a data browser

• SSH Images• hurricane tracks• GHRSST• MODIS Ocean Color

JPL: El Niño CSIRO, NOAA: Ocean Racers & Ocean Researchers


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Basic radar altimetry toolbox & tutorial

A joint ESA-CNES project Opensource software All satellites from ERS-1

to Cryosat, nearly all level of data

Mostly user-oriented… … but novice users and

students are often the same!

Demonstration of the toolbox on request

http://www.altimetry.info


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Media & general public


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Reaching the public via media efforts

NASA Strategic Communications Framework wrt Earth studies: targets: congressmen and young adults illustrate the importance of science to US economy and benefits of

space

2006 Earth Science News - emphasis on climate change, global impacts of ocean-driven weather/climate (including an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth movie)

Opportunities in 2007-2008; News driven stories (Climate change, Sea level rise,

Hurricane season, International polar year, El Nino/La Nina), Internally driven (Climate change, Ocean literacy, Sea level

rise, Climate-ocean link, Hurricane season, International polar year, El Nino/La Nina),

and Science driven stories --You fill this in!


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Climate change, sea level rise and the polar regions: Using visuals to promote public understanding

Sandra Zicus – Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC, Craig Macaulay – CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship

Images are great tools for attracting attention…

but they need to be interpreted. Their meaning depends on the viewer’s background understanding, the context, …


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Funded by Australian Climate Change Science Program & CSIRO

Originally intended for media use

Available for use in education and public displays


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Perspectives


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Images & animation developments

New animations (maps from altimetry and Mercator),

New videos on Aviso web A new movie about the ocean observation from

space (CNES; in French, English and Spanish)Already available: 3D images and animation interface (Aviso web) “SALP” slide library: ~120 slides about altimetry,

ocean, climate, applications, technique, missions…

Cooperation with GSFC Science Visualization Lab?


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Future developments

Jason-2/OSTM Education & Public Outreach & applications outreach

Altimetry applications, including multisensor Coverage of science team research and

other applications on web Aviso web site refurbished, with increased

news frequency 6 months beginning before Jason-2

Wide Argonautica program might also be set up in place for schools implication around (before/after) Jason-2 launch


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International Polar Year 2007-2006

An opportunity to:

enhance international collaboration and cooperation through sharing of information and educational resources

improve visual literacy among the public through education and outreach

Contact Sandra Zicus – Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC – if you have polar-relevant outreach material


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Plans for Jason-2/OSTM outreach

CNES, NASA, EUMETSAT, NOAA Cooperation is taking place and will continue:

Special Overview brochure (CNES/EUMETSAT/NASA/NOAA) Update of brochure (CNES/EUMETSAT and other partners) Launch Event (CNES/EUMETSAT) Launch related PR activities (CNES/EUMETSAT/NASA/NOAA) Video in cooperation (CNES/EUMETSAT/NASA/NOAA) Promotional items (CNES/EUMETSAT + NASA/NOAA) Key messages (CNES/EUMETSAT + NASA/NOAA) Draft of communication plan (CNES/EUMETSAT + NASA/NOAA) 2 Jason models have been procured for EUMETSAT HQ building

It will be in the continuity of current altimetry outreach


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OST/ST posters on the web

A complete overview of what was shown during this meeting

An archive of past meetings (from 1998)

Your posters available online at:http://www.tp-jason.oceanobs.com

Send them in pdf to [email protected]

A CD of the abstracts, presentations and posters of this meeting will be distributed

Documents

OST/ST, March 2006 - Outreach Session Page 1 Outreach splinter session summary