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OST/ST, March 2006 - Outreach Session
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Outreach session agenda: Friday afternoon
14 March, 8h30 – 12h00
Chairpersons: V. Rosmorduc, M. Srinivasan
9:30-9:45 Overview & Past/Future activities, V. Rosmorduc 9:45-10:00 Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox & Tutorial, V. Rosmorduc10:00-10:15 New Material for Teaching Oceanography, R. Stewart10:15-10:30 Ocean Altimetry Data: Operational Users and
Applications, M. Srinivasan10:30-11:00 Break11:00-11:15 Supporting Ocean Literacy: JPL Ocean Surface
Topography (OST) Education and Public Outreach Activities for 2007-2008, A. Richardson
11:15-11:30 Ocean Altimetry: Anticipating News and Public Interest, R. Sullivant
11:30-11:45 Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and the Polar Regions: Using visuals to promote public understanding, S. Zicus, C. Macaulay
11:45-12:30 Showcase of SWT outreach "products”
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Argonautica
About 20 beacons in operation (oceanographic buoys, Albatrosses, elephant seals, penguins, Argo float, …)
Google Earth visualisation now available 2 fact-sheets (a buoy around an eddy, a
buoy along a major current), in French, with animations
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2007 wall calendar
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3D images and animations
Now on the Aviso web
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Radar altimetry tutorial and toolbox
A joint ESA-CNES project All satellites since ERS-1,
nearly all level of data Mostly user-oriented… … but novice users and
students are often the same!
See http://www.altimetry.info
Demonstration of the (preliminary) tutorial and toolbox on request
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JPL
Jason 5th Anniversary/Ocean Literacy Bookmark
OSTM lithograph Jason-1 lithograph updated New Science result posters
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Future developments
Jason-2/OSTM Education & Public Outreach & applications outreach
Altimetry applications, including multisensor Coverage of science team research and other
applications on web New animations and videos on Aviso Aviso web site refurbished, with increased news
frequency 6 months beginning before Jason-2 Wide Argonautica program might also be set up
in place for schools implication around (before/after) Jason-2 launch