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GLOBE/SMAP Soil Moisture Field Campaign 1-Year Highlights Webinar: 02 February

Jan 14, 2016

GLOBE/SMAP Soil Moisture Field Campaign

The next GLOBE/SMAP Soil Moisture Field Campaign webinar will be held on Tuesday, 02 February at 4:00 p.m. ET (9:00 p.m. UTC). The webinar is entitled: “1 Year of the SMAP Mission and Global Shout-Outs to all the GLOBE schools/teams collecting SMAP soil moisture data." The GLOBE/SMAP Soil Moisture Field Campaign began 1 October 2015 and will run through 30 April 2016.

The webinar will:

highlight one-year of the SMAP satellite in space;
discuss the campaign measurements with SMAP scientists; and
present a report by teacher Vicky Gorman from the Medford Memorial Middle School in New Jersey, USA and teacher Marina Barišić from the Ill. Osnovna skola Varazdin in Croatia.

This webinar will use the Zoom program (and not the Adobe Connect program). You can join from a PC, a Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/7578241037. (When you click on the webinar link above, Zoom will prompt you to download the required plug-in. After it is installed, you will be good to go. You can do this at any time before the webinar.)

You can also join the webinar by phone at +1 415 762 9988 (U.S. Toll) or +1 646 568 7788 (U.S. Toll). The meeting ID is: 757 824 1037. (International numbers are available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=xxERXDggtvnHd32IHAEUQ_mKDQs5zVkL

Visit the GLOBE/SMAP Soil Moisture Measurement Field Campaign web pages to follow all of the current campaign information and updates -- including past webinars, blogs, and everything you need to know about collecting soil moisture measurements using the SMAP Block Pattern Soil Moisture Protocol, as well as view the new protocol instructional video.

Read the campaign-related blogs at: http://www.globe.gov/web/smap/overview/blog-posts. If you would like to guest blog about your SMAP protocol measurement experience, please contact Brian Campbell, Senior NASA Earth Flight Science Education and Communication Specialist at brian.a.campbell@nasa.gov.