MY NASA DATA E-note (Number 32)
April/May 2009

Greetings MY NASA DATA Alumni and Newslist members!

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1) New Climate Change area added to the Lessons page
2) Professional Development Webcast Series—Next webcast June 18th!
3) New MISR Aerosol Optical Depth Data
4) Ask a Mentor

1) New Climate Change area added to the Lessons page The new Climate Change Lessons 
page is available! All of the Teacher Plans relating to teaching Climate Change, as 
well as a link to the "Global Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth" website, may 
be found at http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/ClimChg_lessons.html.
The lessons featured on this page provide a few possible ideas for climate change 
related studies using MY NASA DATA. More climate change related lessons and ideas are 
welcome!

2) Professional Development Webcast Series--Next webcast June 18th!
A Professional Development Webcast Series is being offered by NASA Langley Research 
Center in co-operation with NOAA and the VA Department of Education Region 2 
Math/Science Coalition, for grades 3-8 and Earth Science teachers. Each of the five 
monthly webcasts addresses a different Earth System Science topic. The fifth and 
final program in the series will air on Thursday, June 18th, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT, and 
will focus on "The Process of Science", using research on Sea Surface Temperature 
as an example. The webcasts may be accessed on the NASA Digital Learning Network at 
http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/.

3) New MISR Aerosol Optical Depth Data
Are you or your students studying pollution or the global distribution of particulate 
matter in the atmosphere? New Live Access Server (LAS) data may help. An additional 
six months of the MISR Aerosol Optical Depth data have been added to the Live Access 
Server. The monthly summary of aerosol data now covers March 2000 to February 2009.

4) Ask a Mentor
Do you have a question about Earth System Science? Are you trying to implement the use 
of Earth System data as teaching strategy, and need suggestions? Citizen scientists, 
educators, and students may submit Earth System Science questions using the Ask a 
Mentor page, found at http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/askmentor.php.  The submitted 
questions are reviewed and sent to the MY NASA DATA E-mentor network, a group of educators 
and scientists who have volunteered to answer your questions.  The responses are compiled 
and e-mailed to the person posting the question. Please allow a few days for your answer 
to arrive.