NASA Academy - NASA's Charter gives it the main role of using and exploring space for the benefit of humankind. The success of the space program results from the interaction of government, academia, and the private sector, each playing a critical and different role. Responsibilities overlap, leaders migrate from one sector to another, and interdependence changes with each new administration. The NASA Academy is a unique institute of higher learning whose goal is to help guide future leaders of our space program by giving them a glimpse of how this system works. The intent of this program is to give the selected students a working knowledge of NASA and its programs. The Academy accomplishes this through interactive sessions with leaders within government, industry, and academia and research in NASA's laboratories. The students will discover how NASA and its Field Centers operate, understand the NASA link to the private sector, gain experience in world-class laboratories, participate in a team environment where people work together to accomplish common goals, and build professional bonds among our future leaders. The NASA Academy Program is co-sponsored by the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, which provides students with stipends between $2,000 and $4,000 for the summer. Housing, meals and local transportation are paid for by the participating NASA Center. Contact: For application materials, please check with your local Space Grant College Consortia Office (http://calspace.ucsd.edu/spacegrant/), the NASA Academy Home Page (http://www.nasa-academy.nasa.gov), or call the University Programs Office, NASA GSFC, at (301) 286-8733 (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 631) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP) - NSIP is NASA's national competition for students in grades 3-12, designed to link students directly with NASA's diverse and exciting missions of research, exploration, and discovery. Annual competitions foster student literacy in science, mathematics, engineering, technology and geography. Teachers use NSIP to support curricular goals, spark student interest, encourage creative thinking across disciplines, and involve students in science process skills. Program information and entry forms are provided in the annual NSIP Program Announcement, available in print and via the Internet prior to the new school year. Supplemental information is provided in Educator Resource Guides available for each of the competition categories: Design a Mission to Mars; Watching Earth Change; Earth Systems in My Neighborhood; Aeronautics and Space Science Journalism; and Flight Opportunities. Entries are judged at NASA Centers, students may receive judges' comments about their entry. All qualified entrants receive NASA certificates of participation. Prizes include NASA presentations at schools; trips to the National Symposium, Student Flight Week, and Space Camp; and student experiments launched on a NASA Sounding Rocket or the Space Shuttle. Beginning in 2000, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will award the $4,000 Thacher Scholarship to a first-place, high-school Center Winner in the Watching Earth Change competition. (Added: 5-Feb-2001 Hits: 914) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12]

 NASA Summer School for High Performance Computational Earth and Space Sciences - The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth and Space Data Computing Division (ESDCD) and the Universities Space Research Association are soliciting applications from qualified graduate students to participate in an intensive lecture series in computational earth and space sciences during the three-week period July 12 - 30, 1999. This program stems from ongoing activities that reflect NASA's desire to help train the next generation of Earth and space scientists in the development of computational techniques and algorithms for scalable parallel computers in support of the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications Program. (Added: 13-Jun-1999 Hits: 621) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship (RRA) Programs - The NRC conducts a national competition to recommend and make awards to outstanding scientists and engineers at recent postdoctoral and experienced senior levels for tenure as guest researchers at participating NASA laboratories. Recent postdoctoral graduates are provided with an opportunity for concentrated research in association with selected members of the permanent professional laboratory staff, often as a climax to formal career preparation. Recent doctoral recipients as well as experienced Ph.D. scientists and engineers are afforded an opportunity for research without the interruptions and distractions of permanent career positions. The RRA program is administered by the National Research Council under a contract monitored by NASA's Education Division. This program is open to all Ph.D.s, or equivalent, in science and engineering disciplines relevant to NASA research programs, including NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. As many as 200 NRC-NASA Associates are on tenure annually. All opportunities for research at NASA Centers are open to U.S. citizens and U.S. legal permanent residents; many of the opportunities are also open to other non-U.S. citizens. Contact: National Research Council, Associateship Programs - TJ 2114, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418; Fax: (202) 334-2759. (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 671) [Spider search][grade levels: adult]

 National Workforce Development Education and Training Initiative - Building a strong work force to populate one of the fastest growing industries in the nation is one of the challenges facing NASA's Commercial Remote Sensing Program (CRSP) at Stennis Space Center. On October 1, 1999, CRSP, along with NASA's Education and University Affairs Office at Stennis, announced a national program that is designed to meet that challenge. The national plan is based on the successful approach demonstrated by the Mississippi Model for Workforce Development Education and Training (WDET), currently being implemented by CRSP's Mississippi Space Commerce Initiative. As NASA's lead center for commercial remote sensing, Stennis introduced WDET in the state of Mississippi two years ago. WDET has been given the task of ensuring that a trained workforce will be available to populate the rapidly growing remote-sensing industry. The Mississippi Model and the Mississippi Department of Education launched a program, which when fully implemented, will bring remote-sensing technology to every Mississippi student by 2003. This program has been the focus of national attention, bringing education officials from around the nation to Mississippi to observe the schools involved. Spatial Information Centers have been established in all Mississippi Community Colleges and Universities are investigating remote-sensing courses for existing disciplines. NASA, the US Department of Education, the US Department of Labor, the US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Interior and the US Department of Defense will work together to ensure that all students are exposed to remote-sensing technology. Industries, colleges and universities will also be part of the network. Additionally, NASA will draw on its existing partnerships with the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic, the Public Broadcasting Service and the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment program. Contact: Brenda Pounds, Stennis Space Center, Building 1200, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529; Phone: (228) 688-3814; Fax: (228) 688-7528; Email: brenda.pounds@ssc.nasa.gov (Added: 17-Apr-2001 Hits: 498) [Spider search][grade levels: adult|post-secondary]

 NSU/NASA Research Experience in Earth System Science (REESS) - A six-week program to educate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (SMET) undergraduate students in the visualization and interpretation of satellite data. Students will be assigned research projects relevant to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise coupled with an intense educational program. At the end of the experience the students are expected to a) have an understanding of the Earth as a coupled system in which many interactions are critical to climate change; b) understand satellite data manipulation, image processing, and interpretations; c) be capable of accessing satellite images via Internet and making informed interpretations. Research work in NSU's scientific visualization laboratories will be coupled with field trips to NASA Langley Research Center. Details of student projects from previous years can be found on the program's Web site. Contact: Dr. S. Raj Chaudhury, BEST Lab, Norfolk State University, 700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504; Phone: (757) 683-2381; Fax: (757) 683-9054; Email: schaudhury@nsu.edu (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 667) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 Remote Sensing of Tribal Lands: Earth System Science Student Research Experiences at Salish Kootenai College - A partnership between Salish Kootenai College (SKC) and the Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group (NTSG) at the University of Montana will provide research experiences in Earth system science to Native American undergraduate students starting in April of 2000 and continuing for three years. A new upper-division course "Remote Sensing of Tribal Lands" will be developed and taught within the SKC B.S. in Environmental Science degree program. This course will cover the application of remote-sensing technologies to the study of the Earth as a system, and will focus in particular on the place of Montana tribal lands in the Earth system. An estimated 15 students per year will gain research experience at an introductory level in this class through completion of a term research project that utilizes remote sensing, geographic information systems, and global positioning system technologies, and these students will become well prepared for more advanced research in this area. Six undergraduate research internships applying remote-sensing data and Earth system modeling to the solution of important environmental problems on tribal lands will also be provided each year. These students will work under the supervision of SKC and NTSG researchers, with some students based at SKC and some working at the NTSG facilities. A project Web site will be developed and maintained to publicize the educational opportunities in Earth system science at Salish Kootenai College, disseminate student research results and NASA Earth Obsering System data products covering Native lands, and to emphasize the importance of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise to Native peoples. Contact: Tim Olson, Salish Kootenai College, PO Box 117, Pablo, MT 59855; Phone: (406) 675-4800, extension 305; Email: tim_olson@skc.edu (Added: 17-Apr-2001 Hits: 505) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 STEP Careers in Research Exploration Program - STEP Careers in Research Exploration Program The purpose of this project is to expose the Montana Tech Succeeding sTudents in Engineering Programs (STEP) students to remote sensing and to spark their interest in research-based careers. STEP is a support program that works with traditionally underrepresented students to encourage them to succeed in earning an engineering education and becoming a successful professional. Each year the STEP program accepts twenty recent high-school graduates into the program. They attend classes and academic excellence workshops for six weeks in the summer while living on campus. The classes include but are not limited to, college success, introduction to engineering and English composition. Starting summer 2000, an additional class will be offered in the field of remote sensing. The majority of the class time will be spent conducting research with faculty members who are currently doing NASA research at Montana Tech. Upon completion of the six-week summer program, all STEP students enroll at Montana Tech in one of the seven engineering programs offered. STEP works with students to develop academic and personal success strategies from college entrance until maturation and placement. Along with other STEP program requirements, students will write reports of their remote-sensing research experience and the careers that the experience may lead to, supported by a plan for reaching the career goal(s). Contact: Principal Investigator, Dr. Thomas S. Moon, Professor, Geophysical Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, 1300 West Park Street, Butte, MT 59701; Phone: (406) 496-4350; Fax: (406) 496-4704; Email: tmoon@mtech.edu , or STEP Program Director, Amy Verlanic, Technical Outreach Department, STEP Program, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, 1300 West Park Street, Butte, MT 59701; Phone: (406) 496-4289; Fax: (406) 496-4696; Email: averlanic@mtech.edu (Added: 17-Apr-2001 Hits: 503) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 Student Research Programs - NASA and the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium sponsor a variety of programs to encourage research participation by students at all levels of higher education. Research programs geared to undergraduate and graduate students are offered in Washington state and at NASA centers around the country. These programs provide students with a chance to work with leading scientists and take part in cutting-edge research. Certain programs are open only to students attending colleges or universities which are members of the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium. (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 679) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 Student's On-Line Atmospheric Research (SOLAR): A SAGE III Educational Outreach Program - The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) will play a critical role in NASA's Earth Science Enterprise by monitoring the distribution of aerosols and trace gases in the upper atmosphere, from Earth orbit. The long-term data provided by SAGE III will enable atmospheric scientists to assess possible influences of human activities and natural events and the Earth climate system and other atmospheric processes such as ozone depletion. SAGE III is planned for launch in late 1999. Two additional SAGE III sensors are planned for launch within the next several years, one of which will be placed on the International Space Station. This combination of SAGE III instruments should provide critical measurements well into the next century. The SAGE III outreach program has selected a project that will help students in grades 9-12 develop hands-on skills in working with scientific equipment. It will also give students experience in collecting, analyzing, and reporting scientific data. The project involves collecting atmospheric data using a small hand-held instrument, a sun photometer. Students can build a sun photometer from inexpensive parts available at Radio Shack. This small hand-held device measures intensity of direct sun light, and can be used to determine attenuation of sun light caused by aerosols and gases in the Earth's atmosphere. The sun photometer is a simplified version of the satellite-based SAGE III instrument, and the measurement concept is basically the same as that of SAGE III. (Added: 5-Feb-2001 Hits: 827) [Spider search][grade levels: 9-12]

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