NASA is a major contributor to global climate and related environmental assessment activities, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Assessments and the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme (WMO/UNEP) Ozone Assessment Reports. NASA has made a similarly significant contribution to the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), a central component of the [...]
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ROSES-12 Amendment 10: Development and Testing of Potential Indicators For The National Climate Assessment
July 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Environmental Science, Higher Education, NASA, Request For Proposals, Research, Science
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Best of “Earth as Art” Contest from Landsat – Voting Deadline July 6, 2012
June 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Cool Science, Environmental Science, NASA, Science, STEM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Landsat Program on July 23, 2012, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey would like your help in selecting the top five “Earth as Art” images from the more than 120 scenes in our collection. For 40 years Landsat satellites have been acquiring images of the land cover of [...]
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Climate Change PBL Modules Available for Classroom Pilot Testing – Middle and High School
June 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Educational Materials, Environmental Science, K-12, Lesson Plans, Science, STEM, Teacher Opportunities
The Exploring the Environment – Global Climate Change (ETE-GCC) project announces that five modules are ready for pilot testing: Global Temperatures, Ice Caps and Sea Levels, Human Health, Volcanoes, and Drought. These new modules present an updated theoretical approach to problem-based learning (PBL) that focuses on scientific inquiry, use of satellite imagery, and incorporating of [...]
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2012 Climate Science Summer Workshops for Educators – Application Deadline June 1, 2012
December 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Environmental Science, K-12, Science, Teacher Development, Teacher Opportunities, Workshop
The Institute for Earth Science Research and Education, in collaboration with Queens College/City University of New York, is seeking participants for summer professional development workshops in the second year of its Climate Science Research for Educators and Students project. Funded by the NASA Innovations in Climate Education program, this project seeks to improve student engagement [...]
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ROSES-11 Amendment 26 – Earth Science Applications: Wildland Fires
October 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Environmental Science, NASA, Research, Science, STEM
Amendment 26 presents the text and proposal due dates for Appendix A.35, Earth Science Applications: Wildland Fires. ROSES-11 Appendix A.35, Earth Science Applications: Wildland Fires is specifically focused on applications addressing cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary issues related to wildland fires in support of management strategies and actions, business practices, and policy analysis and decisions. Projects must [...]
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