July 23 - Saturn, Cassini, SMAP, OCO2

Wednesday, July 23 Pasadena, CA

7:30 AM JPL Arrival/Badging Lobby, Building 249, Visitor Control

Bring government-issued photo ID

8:00 AM Astronomy at JPL 180-101

Leonidas Moustakas, Astrophysics & Space Sciences Section Manager

9:00 AM Lord of the Rings: Cassini Mission to Saturn 180-101

Todd Barber, Cassini Propulsion Lead Engineer

Eyes on the Solar System software

• Cassini - Huygens Mission (Saturn, Titan)

10:00 AM Scaling the Solar System | Activity 2 café 167

David Seidel, Ota Lutz, Sandra Kaszynski, Paula Partida

11:30 PM Lunch café 167

12:30 PM NASA’s Digital Learning Network 321 Auditorium

Rachel Power, DLN Education Specialist, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

1:00 PM Measuring Soil Moisture from Space 321 Auditorium

Narendra Das, Research Scientist, Water and Carbon Cycle Group

• Globe Program - GLOBE's vision is of worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists and citizens working together to better understand, sustain and improve Earth's environment at local, regional and global scales.

2:00 PM Measuring Carbon in the Earth System 321 Auditorium

Karen Yuen, Science Data Applications Manager, Orbiting Carbon Observatory

• Earth Science at JPL
  • SMAP Mission (Soil Moisture Active Passive)
  • OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory)

3:00 PM Near Earth Objects 321 Auditorium

Paul Chodas, Senior Scientist, Near Earth Objects Office

3:30 PM The Asteroid Redirect Mission 321 Auditorium

Brian Muirhead, Chief Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

4:00 PM Earth Science Activity Potpourri 321 Auditorium

Precipitation Education & 321-B20

Globe Program

• Water Filtration Design Challenge
• Carbon sources and sinks cards pdf
• Air Today, Oceans Tomorrow
• Climate Kids
• Climate Change

Ota Lutz

Sandra Kaszynski

Marti Phipps

Peter Falcon, Earth Outreach

Posting photos to DropBox

Norm Herr