{"id":4249,"date":"2000-07-24T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2000-07-24T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T20:04:54","slug":"monthly-news-summary-july-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4249","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary &#8211; July 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Images from Space<\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><em>by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Specialist<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>July 2000<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><em>This column covers news received in June.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><em>\u2026from Earth orbit<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s EarthKam program, for Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle-Schoolers, was one of thirteen university outreach programs honored by UW\u2013Madison Chancellor David Ward in a reception at the chancellor\u2019s residence on June 14. It was the fourth annual University &amp; Community Partnerships event. The press were invited and the\u00a0<em>Capital Times<\/em>\u00a0(June 14) and\u00a0<em>Madison Times<\/em>\u00a0(June 23-29) covered the awards.<\/p>\n<p>Rosalyn Pertzborn and Sanjay Limaye of SSEC\u2019s Office of Space Science Education worked with James Kotoski to bring EarthKam to Spring Harbor and Hamilton Middle School students. In EarthKam, students in participating schools take pictures of the earth by requesting time on a digital camera in the Space Shuttle. Students in the program deal with all the earthbound hazards of a space mission, including glitches in the data. According to Rosalyn, \u201cOn the first day of the mission, seventh grade students at Spring Harbor and Velma Hamilton Middle Schools observed that the orbital tracks were displaced by a few degrees because the shuttle\u2019s altitude was not as high as originally projected. Although the new flight tracks were not posted on the Web site for the EarthKAM schools until several days later, Mr. Kotoski\u2019s students adjusted all of their image requests accordingly and were the only school in the country to obtain images during the first day of the mission!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pictures students collected are posted on the Web and are used in geography, sociology and other classes. The\u00a0<em>Madison Times\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Heidi Pascual interviewed Sanjay and Rose, who explained that the program was started by Sally Ride, the first American woman astronaut.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/julynamibltl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4252\" alt=\"julynamibltl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/julynamibltl.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5>This image was taken during STS-89 in January 2000. It shows a point in northern Namibia at 19\u00b0S 13\u00b0E.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow these links.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/outreach\/earthKAM.htm\">EarthKAM 2000<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earthkam.sdsc.edu\/geo\/\">Data System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em>\u2026from geostationary orbit<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Scientists in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies are assessing data from the newest GOES satellite. GOES-11 was launched on May 3 as a backup for current weather satellites in geostationary orbit, GOES-8 and GOES-10. GOES-8 was launched in April 1994. Normal life expectancy for these satellites is five years. GOES 8 and 10 cover the earth\u2019s western hemisphere. This third satellite is positioned between them, over the United States, ready to be brought into service when either current operational satellite fails.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s normal to test a new satellite to make sure it functions properly, but GOES-11 gives scientists an unusual opportunity to test at length to see what applications it is best suited for. CIMSS researchers have begun to show comparisons between current and new satellite capabilities at a Science Test Web site. One page compares sounder channels of GOES-8 and GOES-11, showing excellent agreement, even during final engineering checkout. CIMSS scientists so far think they see less striping and noise in images and data from the GOES-11 sounder, the instrument that provides information for satellite products for use in weather forecasting and research. Researcher Tony Schreiner said, \u201cthere is certainly less noise in the infrared Sounder data, especially the short wave bands. This \u2018cleaner\u2019 data translates into \u2018cleaner\u2019 derived products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NOAA science test began on June 30th.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/realtime\/anigsa118.html\">Sounder bands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/g11_report\/index.html\">GOES-11 Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov\/goes\/goes11test\/goes11.html\">NESDIS Test<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em>\u2026from Mars<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Scientists have assumed for some time that water must have flowed on Mars, but till recently it seemed that happened long ago. Recent high-resolution images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera \u201csuggest that liquid water has seeped onto the surface in the geologically recent past,\u201d according to scientists who work with data from the camera. Gullies shown in the new imagery are \u201ctoo small to have been detected by the cameras of the Mariner and Viking spacecraft,\u201d earlier Mars exploring craft. The issue has received so much attention that\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>\u00a0magazine posted articles on its Web site scheduled for print on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye is well versed in all things Martian. Sanjay was interviewed on Madison\u2019s public television Weekend program, Friday, June 23, explaining the Mars Surveyor images. When interviewer Jerry Hoffman asked about the water, Sanjay replied, \u201cSure, I\u2019d drink Mars water.\u201d The\u00a0<em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>\u00a0covered the story on June 23, and Sanjay said, \u201cThere could be areas of Mars that are teeming with bacterial life.\u201d Sanjay also appeared on WORT-FM\u2019s science show on Thursday, June 29 and spoke to a Space Place audience on Tuesday, June 27.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mars.sgi.com\/mgs\/msss\/camera\/images\/june2000\/index.html\">Mars water<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/feature\/data\/hottopics\/index.html\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/gen\/jun00\/mars23062200.asp\"><em>MJS<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2000\/ast22jun_2.htm\">Surprise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"projects\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Project News<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov\/earth_observ.html\"><em>Earth Observer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>The Earth Observer<\/em>\u00a0for March\/April, EOS Senior Project Scientist Michael King named CIRRUS, the Cloud Infrared Radiometer for University Earth System Science, one of four winning proposals for the University Earth System Science program. These four concepts will be developed for spaceflight and, in about six months, two projects (and a backup) will be selected for a mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Radio Network produced a piece on CIRRUS. The WRN syndicates its stories so this piece could appear all over the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2000\/NATURE\/06\/13\/space.station.enn\/index.html\">CNN, CIRRUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN.com\u2019s Environmental News Network posted a slightly edited version of the UW\u2013Madison news release on June 13. It also links to SSEC\u2019s MODIS Remote Sensing of Cirrus Clouds Working Group\u2019s Web page and to Steve Ackerman\u2019s home page, under Related Sites. Steve is Principal Investigator of CIRRUS.<\/p>\n<h3>Icebergs<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/news\/enn-stories\/2000\/03\/03252000\/iceberg_11350.asp\">Iceberg, CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">AMRC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENN\u2019s Lucy Chubb took a scientific standpoint and provided useful detail on the causes of iceberg calving in a story posted in late March.<\/p>\n<p>NSF director Rita Colwell used an AMRC satellite image of iceberg B-15, broken in half, in a talk at the University of Colorado campus on June 20. Entitled \u201cPolar Connections,\u201d the talk focused on the wide-ranging activities of the NSF Polar Research Program and was part of NSF 50th and UCAR 40th anniversary activities in Boulder.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Antarctic Society\u2019s bulletin, \u201cAntarctic;\u201d and the book,\u00a0<em>Unity and Diversity of Life,<\/em>\u00a0will include a B-15 image. The June 20 \u201cEco Minute\u201d on WMMM 105.5 FM radio in Madison featured iceberg B-15. The Providence Rhode Island<em>Sunday Journal<\/em>\u00a0covered the iceberg story.<\/p>\n<h3>Rain<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/releases\/view.msql?id=5045&amp;month=Jun&amp;year=2000\">Rain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soggy Dane County residents endured a record-breaking 30 days ending June 15. SSEC Researcher Scott Lindstrom and AOS Professor John Young used records from the State Climatologist\u2019s office to show that that period is the rainiest in the past 100 years. UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Communications Office posted the story on its Web site. In an article on high lake levels on June 17, the\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0attributed rain statistics to anonymous \u201cUW researchers.\u201d Scott was noted as the statistics\u2019 source in a Menominee Falls newspaper. Scott\u2019s rain statistics also were published in the daily email announcements at the Madison offices of Foley and Lardner on June 14, 16 and 20.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"net\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>On the Net<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/planetearth\/hurricane_data_000526.html\">Data analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/inthenews\/\">UW Newsmakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UW-Madison\u2019s communications office updated its \u201cIn the News\u201d column June 1 with Space.com\u2019s multipart article on hurricanes, featuring Chris Velden in a section on modeling and data analysis. The tropical cyclones group\u2019s research is also featured in the June 30 premier issue of a UW\u2013Madison newsmakers tip sheet for media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wislink.org\/\">Milk Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Milk Board\u2019s Web site links to SSEC weather imagery on its front page and gives SSEC its own section in Weather Resources. SSEC links include Current Wisconsin Weather and the Upper Midwest Regional Earth Science Applications Center. SSEC is prominently credited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/\">Universe Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s home page is listed in the space-oriented Web site,\u00a0<em>Universe Today.<\/em>\u00a0Click on Space Links, and then on University Departments.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"broadcast\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Broadcast<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Weather Guys Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin returned to Wisconsin Public Radio on Monday, June 26. On Jim Packard\u2019s call-in show they received good questions about global warming, including the carbon cycle, computer modeling of the atmosphere and the ocean, and storm classifications, interspersed with quips and gentle verbal sparring. This has been the warmest spring on record, they said. But not in Madison, said a caller.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Velden attended the National Press Club\u2019s forum on hurricane forecasting and preparedness issues. Chris was an observer-participant at the forum, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and the Weather Channel. The event took place in Washington, DC on June 6\u20137 and was carried by CSPAN.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Broadcasting Corporation will use Antarctic composite images from the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center in a program called \u201cSouth of No North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"print\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>In Print<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rig.org.uk\/\">RIG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Remote Imaging Group will use the first GOES-11 visible image in the June issue of their journal. The group\u2019s members come from \u201ceducation and amateur [remote sensing] communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openhouse.wisc.edu\/\">Campus Open House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Campus Open House events list includes \u201cinteractive space science and engineering activities,\u201d as noted in\u00a0<em>On Wisconsin,<\/em>\u00a0the UW alumni magazine. A news release by chancellor\u2019s assistant Noel Radomski called us \u201cStars of Heaven and Earth.\u201d The open house is scheduled for the weekend of August 18\u201320, with events in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science Building to take place on Saturday, the 19th, from about noon to five.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s Web site is listed in\u00a0<em>Applications and Investigations in Earth Science,<\/em>\u00a0a lab manual by Tarbuck, Lutgens, and Pinzke. The manual is used in earth science high school classes in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>In its July issue,\u00a0<em>Florida Trend<\/em>\u00a0magazine will use an image of Hurricane Floyd provided by the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones group.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC is listed in the\u00a0<em>International Satellite Directory<\/em>\u00a0for 2000. The directory is published in two volumes; the 2000 edition includes a forward by Sir Arthur Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Trails<\/em>\u00a0magazine for the university advertisement promoting weather research. This is the same \u201crubber boots\u201d ad that appeared in the May\/June issue of\u00a0<em>Midwest Express<\/em>\u00a0magazine. The ad may also appear in\u00a0<em>Milwaukee<\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"honors\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Outreach and Honors<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/outreach\/PEOPLE\/space2000.html\">Space PEOPLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For three weeks in June, twelve middle school students used UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Space Place to explore the solar system. In this simulated space mission, students from four Madison middle schools designed a planet, built and launched a rocket, created a habitat, and built and programmed a roving planetary vehicle.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/July.2000PPLworld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4251\" alt=\"July.2000PPLworld\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/July.2000PPLworld.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/July.2000PPLworld.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/July.2000PPLworld-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/July.2000PPLworld-392x300.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5>Middle school students in PEOPLE space workshop gleefully begin their world.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Facilitators in this daring effort were Sanjay Limaye and Rosalyn Pertzborn (SSEC\u2019s Office of Space Science Education), and Jim Lattis and Kay Kriewald (Department of Astronomy\u2019s Space Astronomy Laboratory). Along the way, the young explorers learned quite a bit of science\u2014how to use a telescope, what sunspots are and how they move, crater formation, and planetary characteristics. The workshop was one of several ambitious offerings in UW\u2013Madison\u2019s summer Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, or PEOPLE. Another workshop created its own newspaper,\u00a0<em>da PEOPLE flava,<\/em>\u00a0and covered the space exploration workshop.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/july.200PPLwrlds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4250\" alt=\"july.200PPLwrlds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/july.200PPLwrlds.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/july.200PPLwrlds.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/july.200PPLwrlds-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/july.200PPLwrlds-392x300.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5>Nearly three weeks later, members of two PEOPLE teams show off their worlds.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Wisconsin Week Wire<\/em>\u00a0for June 14 mentioned under Milestones the Banner Miller award received by Tropical Cyclones group researchers. Researchers Chris Velden, Tim Olander and Steve Wanzong (now with Technical Computing) received the award (with a NOAA colleague) for significant research on hurricanes. Scott Sandgathe, project manager with the Office of Naval Research, congratulated the team on the award, and thanked them for their work for ONR. \u201cDollar for dollar,\u201d he said, \u201cI can\u2019t think of a better investment we\u2019ve made recently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the News &#8211; July 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monthly-summary"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}