Category Archives: General Science

by Dr. Lin Chambers Recently I attended a band concert at my daughter’s middle school. As we were leaving the concert at about 8 pm, I glanced up at the sky and saw a curious sight. What an odd-looking contrail, … Continue reading →

By Dr. Charles Kironji Gatebe, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate In the coming weeks and months, you will hear a lot from the media about the Copenhagen Summit that will be held in Denmark from  6-18 … Continue reading →

By Dr. Lin Chambers, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate My adventures in science began relatively late, after an extensive engineering education and 10 years of professional work in aerospace engineering.  (Unless you want to count my … Continue reading →

By Dr. Charles Kironji Gatebe, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate The next morning, we arrive at the sampling site and proceed to extract the filters on which atmospheric particle (or aerosol) samples have been collected by … Continue reading →

By Dr. Charles Kironji Gatebe, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate We begin our journey up Mount Kenya at Met Station (shown in Figure 3, altitude 3050 m AMSL) early in the morning around 6 a.m., while … Continue reading →