Aura

Well, Stephanie seems to be very successful in sucking me and Heather (aka "The Kids" or "Steph's minions") into the blogosphere, so here I am. Today I am ramping up my efforts towards Aura, preparing for the AccessData workshop next week. Keep checking back to see how our progress in writing a chapter for the Earth Exploration Toolbook is going!

Added mission links

I just added the links to my missions and projects. Check out the education and/or outreach sections to get an idea of the kinds of things we do.

The image at the left is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It's scheduled to launch late October 2008

First Post

I develop and implement education and outreach programs for NASA Earth and Space science missions. As education and public outreach (EPO) specialists, my team and I are always looking for innovative ways to engage people in NASA missions. We work in the K-12 community, with museums, planetariums,after-school programs, filmmakers and youth groups. Of course our missions have websites and many of our educational activities and products are posted on NASA websites. But lately we have started looking at other venues on the web, like YouTube and Second Life. I have the geosteph channel on YouTube and have uploaded a number of video podcasts and other videos developed for public engagement. I've also created a playlists on Pluto and the New Horizons mission to the Kuiper Belt.

So here I am, a new blogger, looking to share our projects and looking for ways to involve more people in our missions.