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Teachers Learn About Airborne Science
 Posted on Feb 03, 2013 05:25:57 PM | Emily Schaller
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Twenty-seven elementary, middle, and high school teachers from Los Angeles and Kern counties visited the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility (DAOF) in Palmdale, California on Friday January 25, 2013.  The visit coincided with the NASA Airborne Science Media Day.

The K-12 teachers toured insides of the NASA DC-8 and P-3B Airborne Science laboratories.  In addition, they saw and learned about the current missions of the NASA ER-2, G-III and B-200 aircraft. 



NASA DC-8 Mission Manager, Frank Cutler, talks to teachers visiting the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility (Image Credit: NASA/Tom Tschida)

Frank Cutler talks to teachers inside the NASA DC-8 (Image Credit: NASA/Tom Tschida)


Teachers board the NASA P-3B (Image Credit: NASA/Tom Tschida)



Randy Albertson, NASA Airborne Science Program Deputy Director talks to K-12 teachers (Image Credit: NASA/Tom Tschida)


NASA Airborne Science Program deputy director, Randy Albertson, gave the teachers an overview of NASA's fleet of airplanes and how NASA uses these planes to study the Earth and its atmosphere. Teachers also learned about how they could follow Airborne Science flights and chat live with NASA scientists directly from their classrooms through a specialized website (contact emily.schaller@nasa.gov for more information).  Finally, teachers also learned about teacher workshops and other opportunities available to them through the AERO Institute.



HS3 Mission Documentary
 Posted on Jan 09, 2013 01:55:19 PM | Emily Schaller
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Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel Mission Documentary

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, mission will overfly tropical storms and hurricanes using NASA's Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the Northern Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. These flights will improve our understanding of the processes that lead to the development of intense hurricanes. The mission will take place for one-month periods during the 2012, 2013, and 2014 Atlantic Basin hurricane seasons.

HS3 will use two of NASA's Global Hawks, each equipped with state-of-the-art science instruments. One aircraft will monitor the environment around storms to look for conditions favorable for storm formation and intensification. The other aircraft will repeatedly fly directly over storms to collect data on the inner-core structures that lead to storm intensity change.

The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly to an altitude of 19.8 km (12.3 miles)—roughly twice as high as a commercial airliner—as far as 20,278 km (12,600 miles), and for as long as 28 hours. The Global Hawks provide a new and unique capability for collecting continuous, high-resolution measurements that will be crucial to understanding rapidly evolving processes in hurricanes.

To learn more about HS3, visit: www.NASA.gov/HS3

Students present results of SARP 2012 research at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
 Posted on Dec 13, 2012 02:36:08 PM | Emily Schaller
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Eight NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) 2012 participants presented talks or posters on their summer research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA December 3-7, 2012.

At the conclusion of SARP in August 2012, the eight students each submitted first-author abstracts to AGU with their faculty advisors and mentors as coauthors.  Students submitted abstracts to atmospheric science, biogeoscience, and geodesy sessions (listed below).  






SARP 2012 participants Laura Judd, Kelvin Bates, Austin Hopkins and James Allen present their posters at AGU

In addition to the eight SARP 2012 students who presented their summer research, eight additional SARP alumni (2009-2012) also presented at the meeting.  On Thursday December 6th, SARP alumni, mentors, faculty, staff, speakers, and NASA managers all gathered for a reunion dinner at Chevy’s Fresh Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco.


SARP Alumni, mentors, faculty and others at the reunion dinner

The NASA booth at AGU was also the location for the debut of the 2012 SARP video.



Applications are now being accepted for SARP 2013.
Apply here:
www.nserc.und.edu/learning/SARP2013.html

Help spread the word about this amazing experience!


NASA Airborne Science Missions Connect with Classrooms
 Posted on Oct 17, 2012 03:43:06 PM | Emily Schaller
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During NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission, students and teachers from across the United States learned about hurricanes and the NASA airplane that was studying them.


NASA's Global Hawk lifts off the runway at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. on Sept. 19, 2012. The Global Hawk took off to investigate Tropical Storm Nadine as part of the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission. Credit: NASA Wallops
HS3 is a five-year NASA mission to study hurricane formation and evolution with NASA’s Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).

http://nasa.gov/hs3

During the Global Hawk flights, students and teachers from across the United States were able to chat live with NASA scientists, weather forecasters, and pilots while tracking the position of the Global Hawk and the locations of hurricanes in real time.



Students and teachers tracked the location of the Global Hawk and Atlantic hurricanes in real-time.

Though the HS3 mission has concluded for this year, many of these classrooms are continuing their involvement in Airborne Science Program missions. 

Next up is NASA’s Operation IceBridge. 

http://nasa.gov/icebridge

During IceBridge flights, students and teachers will be able to track the position of the DC-8 and chat live with scientists and crew who are actually onboard the DC-8 flying over Antarctica.



Looking out the window of NASA's DC-8 during its transit flight to Chile for Operation IceBridge.(Credit: NASA/Jim Yungel)

For more information and to get your classroom involved in NASA Airborne Science missions, please contact emily.schaller(at)nasa.gov

2012 Student Airborne Research Program
 Posted on Jul 24, 2012 05:49:01 PM | Emily Schaller
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The NASA Airborne Science Program's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is currently underway (June 17-August 10, 2012)
For frequent updates on the program, follow us here:

SARP blog: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/SARP

SARP Facebook: http://facebook.com/SARP2012

SARP Website: http://www.nserc.und.edu/learning/SARP2012.html




Campers Tour NASA DC-8
 Posted on Mar 02, 2012 12:41:11 PM | Emily Schaller
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The NASA DC-8 aircraft recently completed a six-week study of snow and precipitation during NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Cold-season Precipitation Experiment, or GCPEx.

During the GCPEx mission, the DC-8 airborne science laboratory was based at the Bangor International Airport in Bangor, ME and completed 13 data-collection flights over ground sites in Ontario, Canada.

The goal of GCPEx was to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Gobal Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring snowfall from space.

Read more about the completion of the GCPEx mission here:

Before returning to its home base in Palmdale, CA, the DC-8 played host to a group of elementary school students from the Challenger Learning Center of Maine.  These students were part of a February vacation camp designed to inspire them to pursue careers in math and science.

Mission Director Walter Klein (left) poses with Challenger Learning Center of Maine campers, staff, and chaperones next to the NASA DC-8 (Image Credit: Susan Jonason)


Challenger Center Students, staff, and chaperones climb aboard the DC-8 flying science laboratory at the Bangor International Airport (Image Credit: Susan Jonason)
Twenty-six student campers, along with ten challenger center staff and parents participated in the tour of the NASA DC-8.  The group learned  about NASA's Earth and Airborne Science research, the GCPEx mission, and the DC-8 flying laboratory.  They heard first-hand what an amazing experience it is for the scientists, engineers, and pilots to fly all over the world in NASA research aircraft.



Inside the DC-8, students learn about the aircraft and its scientific missions all over the world (Image Credit: Jennifer Therrien)

Future pilot in the cockpit of the DC-8 (Image Credit: Jennifer Therrien)
For more information about the GCPEx mission, visit:

http://pmm.nasa.gov/GCPEx

For more information about the Challenger Learning Center of Maine, visit:

http://www.astronaut.org





Students Present Airborne Science Research at AGU
 Posted on Dec 06, 2011 05:18:42 PM | Emily Schaller
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Six students from the 2011 NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) will present the results of their summer research at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco.  The special session for the SARP presentations will take place at in the Exhibit Hall at the NASA booth on Wednesday, December 7 from 11:30 AM-1:00 PM.

Learn more about SARP by watching the 2011 video


Applications are now being accepted for SARP 2012.

Download the application here:

www.nserc.und.edu/learning/SARP2012.html

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