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Engaging The Next Generation: IGARSS’08 Outreach Activities in Boston

Join IGARSS’08 in Boston, July 6-11, 2008, focusing on "The Next Generation." K-12 teachers and students are welcome. Explore Forest Watch findings, interactive web resources, and global outreach programs. Attend tutorials, learn mentoring skills, and secure funding insights from federal agencies at the meeting. Engage in paper and poster sessions on successful K-16 programs. Interact in exhibits showcasing science tools. Expect Media Day on July 9th for student interviews and press coverage. Explore Forest Watch for New England forests' health and Watershed Watch for GIS-based watershed studies.

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Engaging The Next Generation: IGARSS’08 Outreach Activities in Boston

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  1. IGARSS’08 Outreach Activities • IGARSS’08 (International Geosciences And Remote Sensing Symposium) meeting will be held in Boston, MA July 6-11, 2008; • A focus of this year’s meeting will be on “The Next Generation;” • K-12 Teachers and their students are invited to participate in these international meetings; • Plan to bring your students to the meetings to describe your Forest Watch findings; • Learn about interactive Web-based materials and other outreach programs from around the world. The Next Generation

  2. IGARSS’08 Outreach Activities • Tutorials (July 6th) on: 1.) How To develop appropriate research-based K-16 outreach programs, and 2.) Mentoring skills for working with K-16 students; • An Invited Session on soliciting funding for GRSS researchers and faculty to create outreach programs, presented by Federal Agency representatives (NASA, NSF, USGS, NOAA, etc.); • Contributed Paper and Poster Sessions focused on both the outreach and technical aspects of successful K-16 programs, in terms of educational benefits and access to useful student data; • Interactive Exhibits focused on K-grey (K-16 and adult learners) in the hallways outside of IGARSS’08 Sessions and in the Exhibit Hall (Doing science with digital cameras; quantifying surface reflectance properties with filters, accessing satellite data and free-ware image processing software, etc.); • Media DayLikelyWednesday, July 9th, when various Media Outlets will be available to interview students, develop press releases on student projects. The Next Generation

  3. Students & Scientists Working Together Determining the Health of New England Forests Forest Watch Tutorial Combining Remote Sensing, Field and Laboratory Work, as Outreach Tools to Introduce and Engage Pre-College Students in the Study of Air-Quality Impacts on the Forests of New England

  4. Watershed Watch Tutorial Combining Remote Sensing, Field Work, and GIS as Outreach Tools to Introduce and Engage Entry-level Undergraduate Students in the Study of Watersheds (NSF Grant DUE-0525433)

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