NASA's Earth Crew Explores Earth Science

Gretchen Cook-Anderson
NASA Headquarters, Washington            November 26, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-0836)

RELEASE: 03-383

NASA'S EARTH CREW EXPLORES EARTH SCIENCE

     On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 10 a.m. EST, NASA will 
host the second in a series of six educational webcasts with 
the NASA Earth Crew. The Crew is an audience of more than 
55,000 students and families from across the country that 
joined the new initiative through online registration since 
January. 

The program, led by Dr. Ghassem Asrar, Associate 
Administrator for Earth Science at NASA and Gwendolyn Brown, 
NASA's Chief Financial Officer, will be carried live on the 
Internet and on NASA TV.

Bianca Baker, a 14-year-old student, Earth Crew member and a 
Tree House detective on NASA SciFiles, an instructional TV 
series for elementary school students, is the webcast 
hostess. Brown and Asrar will answer questions submitted in 
advance by Earth Crew teams through NASA's EdSpace Web site.

The theme of this year's webcast series is "Explorers and 
Exploration." Each installment of focuses on one of NASA's 
six Enterprises: Aerospace Technology, Biological and 
Physical Research, Earth Science, Education, Space Flight, 
and Space Science. The webcasts take place every two months.

"It is exciting for us to give students and their families 
the opportunity to learn about what we do in each Enterprise 
at NASA," said Dr. Adena Williams Loston, the agency's 
Associate Administrator for Education. "We hope that through 
the Earth Crew webcast series, and other NASA education 
initiatives, students across the country will be inspired to 
explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and 
mathematics," she said.

The Earth Crew, an initiative of NASA's Educator Astronaut 
Program, is comprised of students, families and educators who 
receive updates about new projects, participate in 
exploration-related activities and webcasts. They also and 
have the opportunity to provide suggestions to NASA that may 
help in planning future missions.

"I'm looking forward to answering questions from Earth Crew 
members, and hopefully giving them a better idea of how NASA 
is using technology and research to improve life on Earth, 
something the agency has been doing ever since its birth 45 
years ago," remarked Asrar.

NASA TV is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, 
located at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 
MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 
MHz. 

To view the webcast on the Internet, or for information about 
the Educator Astronaut Program and the Earth Crew, visit:

http://edspace.nasa.gov

For information about NASA's Education programs on the 
Internet, visit:

http://education.nasa.gov

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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