NASA Strategic Enterprises
Earth Science
Earth Science lApplying Remote Sensing Research to Earth Science
Problems
NASA’s
remote sensing data on weather, cloud cover, ocean currents,
climatic changes, and ozone concentration, as well as petroleum,
volcanic, asteroid and seismic activity will be used throughout
the courses. lAdapting Space Science Technologies to Earth
Science Applications
Students
in the second term course will build, monitor, and study energy
production through photovoltaics -- a space-based technology
with viable application on Earth. lIncrease Public Understanding of Earth System
Science
Preservice
teachers will be advised into these courses for both their content and
pedagogy. A particular outcome of
the summer course will be to
create curricular materials suitable for K-12 students.