Welcome! Planetary Science E/PO Community Tag-up December 13, 2012
MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury's Poles Today
• Community News and Announcements! • News from HQ – Data Call – Update on NASA Education Plan and Communications Plan • It’s A New Moon Campaign / LADEE Launch Events • AGU Reflections • LPSC Plans Community News & Announcements Science and E/PO Highlights
A new episode of active volcanism on Venus? Halfway Between Uranus and Neptune, New Horizons Cruises On
Early career scientists compete to convey their science to the public in three minutes … no PowerPoints! AGU, LPSC, and more! Finals: April 2014 at National Geographic Headquarters Winner competes in FameLab International in NASA's GRAIL Creates Most the UK in June 2014 Accurate Moon Gravity Map Science and E/PO Highlights
NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
What is Creating Gullies on Vesta? Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim Science and E/PO Highlights News from HQ
• Data Call! Due … NOW! Really … no point in waiting to see if the world ends …
• Recent governance changes: How the new NASA Education Plan and Communication Plan requirements will be implemented
It’s A New Moon
• Overall Strategy – take advantage of the excitement leading up to and during this mission to continue the successful “It’s A New Moon” public outreach program, highlighting the range of current NASA robotic lunar science missions, Lunar educational and public outreach activities, and building on the success and lessons learned from the GRAIL and LRO missions.
• Scope – Emphasis will be on current robotic lunar science missions and how our view of the Moon has fundamentally changed as a result of this exploration. We will also honor the achievements of the past with a tribute to Neil Armstrong, and past Moon missions, and look ahead to future lunar exploration that is being facilitated by our current missions. Timeframe extends from Yuri’s Night through mission completion.
• Theme/Messaging: “It’s a New Moon, LADEE” – A new generation of robotic lunar explorers is revolutionizing our understanding of the Moon. – New discoveries find the Moon a far more exciting place than we had previously thought.
• Website: http://moon.nasa.gov It’s A New Moon
• Tied to SMD’s 50 Years of Solar System Exploration initiative • In 2013, opportunity to: – Reach out to our networks and audiences to do programming, hold events – Host our own events or integrate the theme / messaging into our programs – Evaluate a large public outreach effort • Possible products for our audiences – Programming guides for informal educators and for formal educators - ideas and resources for engaging their audiences – One-pager for ways scientists can get involved – Repurposed classroom and informal activities
Other ideas? Interested in strategizing efforts and/or participating? Please share! Contact: Brian Day (brian.h.day@nasa.gov) or Stephanie Shipp ([email protected]). All NASA-funded scientists interested in giving presentations are invited to join the new NASA SMD Scientist Speaker’s Bureau!
Purpose: The intent of this new system is to enable educators and institutions to contact NASA SMD-funded scientists who are interested in giving presentations, based upon the topic, logistics, and audience.
Aside from name, organization, location, bio, and (optional) photo and website, the information that scientists enter into this database will not be made public; instead, it will be used to help match scientists with the requests being placed.
The system is now open to accept interested scientists’ information!
In March 2013, there will be an additional form that organizations and educators can fill out to request a speaker; the system will compare the data from their request and list the matching scientists’ and then once one has been selected, the system will send a request to that scientist with the details provided by the requestor.
Please invite your scientists to join! http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/speaker/ Programs or Projects to Share / Highlight for the Planetary Community?
Contact Stephanie ([email protected]) • Professional Development Session – Application of cross- Forum tools and information in programs and products
• Planetary – Heliophysics – Heliophysics – Planetary Meeting of Opportunity Heliophysics Community – Status of collaborative efforts (aka “task forces”) – Upcoming Sun-Earth Day activities - Solar Max-Storm Warning Effects in the Solar System
• Numerous oral and poster sessions including scientist engagement sessions • PD Workshop: Evaluation of E/PO Programs. First in the series of cross-Forum evaluation PD sessions. • Workshop for Higher Education Planetary Science Faculty • Undergraduate Research Conference (Sunday, March 17)
Registrations coming online at: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/events/education
• Planetary Science E/PO Community Networking Lunch
• E/PO presentations. Abstracts due January 8. All E/PO presentations are welcome; thematic topic will be announced next week. (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/programAbstracts/instructions) Thank You for Joining Us!