Greetings MY NASA DATA Alumni!

To keep you up to date on MY NASA DATA, we are initiating a monthly
(at least at the beginning) e-mail, the 'MY NASA DATA E-note'.  Please
give us feedback on this note, and let us know if you'd like
longer/shorter?   More/less detail?  Other topics?  More/less often?
Etc....  We also plan to allow others to subscribe to this email, so
if you have interested colleagues, please let us know.


The team has been busy over the last few months (good thing we did not
try to run a workshop this summer!!!) with lots of MY NASA DATA things,
as well as other work.

Lesson Plans
We have now posted 14 lessons from last summer's workshop, and are
actively working on several more.  If you have not yet heard from us
about your lesson, you will soon.  I hope that you are all checking out
the lessons from others, and have been able to use some of them in your
teaching.  Most of these (up through ID 15) were also submitted to the
NASA Earth Science Education peer review.  The results on that
should be in later this fall.  We'll share any review comments on your
lesson with you.

Glossary and Documentation
We've continued to add terms there, and have added a new feature
which explains the units for the LAS data.  See http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/units.php
If you notice something missing from either place, let us know
and we will work to add it.

Data
Many of you noticed that we did a major clean-up of the LAS earlier this year.
The goal was to make the parameter names more consistent, so that it would
be easier to tell what is what.  We've added an LAS Intro page:  http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/LASintro.html
which we are continuing to work on.  A new page explaining data sources
will be appearing in a link at the bottom in a few days.  Your comments
on what else needs to be explained would be most welcome.
We have also added data on Precipitation and have gone through a couple
of iterations with Sea Surface Temperature (our initial source was taken
out by Hurricane Katrina and never recovered; that has been a hold-up
for several of your lessons, by the way....)

Science Projects
We are just about ready to launch our citizen science/science projects
section of the MY NASA DATA website.  Look for that in the next few weeks,
and comments will be welcome, as usual.  On that topic, if your students
do some sort of research project using LAS data, please remember that we
would like to post such reports (as long as you give them a reasonable grade!).

Feedback question of the month:
Would you find it helpful if we post (selected) current scientific papers
related to the data that are available in the LAS?

Link of interest:
UNEP ATLAS OF OUR CHANGING ENVIRONMENT - DOWNLOAD FREE POWERPOINT
COLLECTION http://www.na.unep.net/OnePlanetManyPeople/powerpoints.html
"One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment" provides a
visual presentation of changes in the global environment, shown through
remote sensing imagery produced over 30 years.  A free collection of over
400 PowerPoint slides showing images from the atlas can be downloaded from
this site.  The slides are divided into 6 geographical regions (Africa, Asia
and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America and Polar Regions)
covering 11 themes - Introduction to the Planet, People and Planet,
Atmosphere, Coastal Areas, Urban Areas, Water and Lakes, Forests, Cropland,
Grassland, Tundra and Polar Areas and Extreme Events.


Keep in touch and let us know how we can help you in your teaching.