Weekly Report for the Week of September 8, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
- Most noteworthy achievement/award. Dave Whiteman (613.1) received the Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Science at a ceremony in Building 8 on September 10th. His citation reads, “for his contribution to the advancement and application of Raman lidar measurements and especially to validation of tropospheric water vapor measurements by NASA satellites”
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
- Most noteworthy item. Charles Ichoku was hired as a Research Physical Scientist with the Climate & Radiation Branch on August 31, 2008. Dr. Ichoku's research is focused on the global occurrence, distribution, radiative properties, and climate forcing effects of aerosols. He also devotes a large amount of time and effort to the study of fires and their emissions, which include radiative energy and smoke aerosol. His work is a part of the national effort aimed at reducing the currently acknowledge large uncertainties in the knowledge of the aerosol contribution to global climate forcing reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
Most significant interaction. Robert Cahalan (613.2) with Charles Gatebe (UMBC-GEST) traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to attend the Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF22) in Nairobi, Kenya. They also met with representatives of the Nairobi Education Department to discuss the GLOBE Program Drs. Cahalan and Gatebe visited the Headmaster of the Starehe Boys Center in Nairobi and the Kiriti Secondary School in Nyeri, a rural village. In addition, they visited the Nairobi Aeronet site.
Drs. Cahalan and Gatebe also traveled to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania to meet with the Director of the Tanzania Meteorological Agency and representatives of the Ministry of Education to discuss the GLOBE Program. There they visited the International School-Moshi and the public secondary school, which has 1500 students, 12 teachers and 2 computers.
Major events in the coming week
LAUNCHFEST
Ralph Kahn (613.2) (Science on a Sphere), Hollie Riebeek/SSAI (E-Theater and Change-Detect Activity) and all-around volunteer Clare Salustro/SSAI will be participating in LAUNCHFEST.
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