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2019 North America Regional Meeting Highlights
The NASA Langley Research Center Partnership hosted the North America Regional Meeting (NARM) and an Atmosphere Professional Learning Workshop 5-7 March 2019 in Hampton, Virginia, USA.
NASA Langley led the 5 March 2019 Atmosphere workshop. This
workshop provided introductory information, as well as in-depth
understanding of atmosphere concepts; specifically focusing on clouds
and aerosols, and the relation to NASA’s active Missions studying this
area of atmospheric science. Stations during the workshop included
“What are Aerosols?” “How to Use a Sun Photometer,” “How to Use Data
to Do Student Research” and “How Researchers Use Your Observations.”
The workshop was attended by 39 people, including facilitators. For
more on the atmosphere workshop, see this article published by NASA.
NARM began early on 6 March 2019 with a welcome by Dave Young,
Langley Director of Science, Allison Leidner, NASA Program Manager, and Tony
Murphy, GIO Director. The NARM meeting was attended by
approximately 59 people representing 23 Partnerships, the Country
Coordinator from Canada, Kevin
O’Connor, and affiliated organizations. Jennifer Bourgeault, Tony Murphy, Jessica Taylor, and Cornell Lewis shared program updates from the
perspectives of the United States GLOBE Office, the GLOBE
Implementation Office, the Working Groups, and the website.
Lightning talk sessions (a series of 6-minute presentations followed by a block of time to speak with the presenters), networking, tours of NASA Langley, and GLOBE observation data collection filled the rest of the 2-day meeting with time to network and build collaborative relationships throughout.
The lightning talks covered topics ranging from “Implementing a Statewide Virtual Science Symposium” and “GLOBE Clouds Data Challenges: Updates and Upcoming Opportunities” to “The GLOBE Observer App: What’s New and What’s Next”.
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