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Education & Outreach
Hydros Overarching Education Objective
Achieve public understanding and demand for day-to-day information on land surface water availability and its role in natural hazards, weather and climate, and water resources.
Hydros Education and Public Outreach
Hydros Education and Public Outreach is headed by Dr. Paul R. Houser, Professor of Global Hydrology: Climate Dynamics Program, School of Computational Sciences, George Mason
University and Brian A. Campbell (SAIC), Hydrospheric Science and Education Specialist, Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Paul R. Houser
phouser@gmu.edu
Brian A. Campbell
Brian.A.Campbell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
| Audience | Objective | Approach | Impact/ Milestones |
Major Partners |
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| Formal Education | K-12 | Student involvement in collecting ground data and using Hydros data for hands-on Earth science education | Hydros Education user-friendly web page data browser | Students engage in and contribute to a large-scale science project with large impacts | GLOBE |
| Project WET | |||||
| Classroom-ready products and curriculum modules | American Geological Institute |
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| University Students | Train a new generation of scientists and professionals in water science through unique experience with satellite monitoring | University students working with Hydros Science Team on products development, processing, and evaluation. | Student research projects and theses surrounding Hydros mission and its data products | Science Team universities | |
| NASA-ESE education catalogue | |||||
| AL A&M HSCaRS | |||||
| Integration of Hydros in university courses | MIT OpenCourseWare | ||||
| Informal Education | Media | Evening news regularly include Hydros products and regional climate forecasts based on them | Direct liaison of Hydros-Education office with local news station weather offices, and weather information vendors | Public connection with an intuitive environmental variable and its impact on their daily lives and economic activities | Media |
| Public | Public understanding of how land surface conditions affect regional climate, water resources and natural hazards. | Education packages and traveling video and display exhibits for natural history and children's museums | General public familiarity with a variable that impacts their lives and helps to understand the Earth system | GSFC EPO Office | |
| Weather Channel's Atmospheres | |||||
| Boston Museum of Science | |||||
| NASA-ESE education catalogue | |||||
| Professional Development |
K-12 Teacher | Enable teachers to use Earth science as the introduction to the physical sciences | Develop teacher work-shops and participate in teacher programs | Understanding of the linked cycles in the Earth system | WET and WES |
| Univ. Montana EOS Training Center |
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| University Professor | Bring live science and data to the classroom | Make available presentation material and education modules | Introduction of Earth systems science and monitoring technologies in curricula | MIT OpenCourseWare | |
