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Final Agenda _ Last update June 11, 2010 at 5pm

AGENDA for African Dust Workshop- Dates: June 21-25, 2010

Monday, June 21 Instructor Notes


10:00am 10:15am Dianne Robinson
Welcome, introductions and logistics Barbara Maggi

10:15am - 11:30am Paul Adams


The Sun interactions with the atmosphere

11:30 am 12:15 am
Lunch
12:15 am to 1:30 pm Olga Kalashnikova
How NASA satellite observations help
scientists to determine aerosol effects on
Earths radiative balance
1:30pm - 2:30pm Preston Lewis
My NASA Data Part I

2:30 pm 5:15 pm Pre- Conference: Read the


GLOBE Training Paul Adams, AEROSOL Chapter and protocol
Site Definition (taking photos) Dan Borick, from GLOBE (send PDF file)
Atmosphere Protocols Paul Jones Register for training
Clouds/Contrails Use PPT from GLOBE Training
Temperature Use http://training.globe.gov
Relative Humidity Print data sheets
Sun Photometer EQUIPMENT:
See GLOBE training site for list

5:15 pm 6:15 pm - GLOBE Data Entry Paul Adams, Dan


Borick, and Paul Jones

Tuesday, June 22 Instructor Notes


9:00am 11:30am Preston Lewis
Incorporating Photo and video / Dan Borick
geotagging on a flickr map
Geo referencing photos using
google earth maps (virtual field
trips)

11:30 12:30 pm
Lunch

1pm 5pm - Field Trip Part I Corals We will be snorkeling -


and Mangroves bring snorkel gear
5pm 6:45pm we go back to hotel to (mask, fins, and
change clothes and have dinner. snorkel),bathing suit, a
7pm 11pm Field Trip Part II - change of dry clothes,
AERONET and the Bioluminescence towel, water shoes to
Bay wear in the mangroves,
and your IPODS
Wednesday, June 23 Instructor Notes
9:00 am -10:30 am
Meteorologist/Atmospheric Scientists Mike Garay and Paul
Global Winds Adams
Atmospheric Layers at different
latitudes
Prevailing Winds
Rain patterns
10:30 am 11:30 GLOBE TEAM Data recall
Sun Photometer measurements at Aeronet Paul Adams, Dan Graphing of multiple variables
site Borick, Paul Jones Data from other schools
Taking measurements from the
ground
11:3 0 12:30
Lunch
12:30 1:30 pm Omar Torres All satellites measure data, but
Plenary: How to Measure Aerosols from measure different things. What
Satellites are the various types of data
telling us?
1:30 pm 5:00 pm Preston Lewis Everyone on their computers
Accessing Satellite Data and
studies using My NASA Data

Thursday, June 24 Instructor Notes


9:00 am 9:30 am Paul Adams
Debrief on previous days field trip and
AERONET Data

9:30 am 10:15 am Paul Adams, Preston


Practice time: Processing your Lewis, Dan Borick
images/maps/etc - Applying what you did
yesterday.

10:15 am 10:45 am Gloria Faus


Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

10:45am - 11:30 am Paul Adams Use the litho graph


A sample lesson Dust World from
ESSEA

11:30 am- 12:30 pm All participants


Lunch

12:30pm - 1:00pm Groups Sun Photometer data sheet


Take your Sun Photometer Measurements

1:00pm 5:00pm All Instructors and Lessons may be developed in


Teachers will work on developing participants both English and Spanish
a lesson for My NASA Data
Presentations by teacher groups:
Present lesson theme that will be
developed for the My NASA Data
Friday, June 25 Instructor Notes
9:00am -10:45am Dan Borick
Climate Modeling & Aerosol
Effect
NASA World Wind

10:45 am -11:30am
Models - How we use data bases Omar Torres
to predict

11:30 12:30pm
Lunch

12:30 1:00 pm- Groups


Teachers take Sun Photometer Paul Adams
Measurements

1:00 pm -2:00 pm - Comparison of Sun Paul Adams


Photometer Measurements to AERONET
(download and data reduction for the
week) Revisit Data and do a graphing plot
for calibration
How to retrieve aeronet data from
the aeronet site
Making Comparison graphs

2:00pm 3:00pm Additional resources Paul Adams and all


example: GIOVANNI instructors

3:00 pm- 3:30pm Dianne and Barbara


Final comments and evaluation

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