Watching the sky for science: the S’COOL Rover project (Invited)

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmed51c..06c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #ED51C-06

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[0805] Education / Elementary And Secondary Education, [0815] Education / Informal Education, [3311] Atmospheric Processes / Clouds And Aerosols, [9350] Geographic Location / North America

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The Students’ Cloud Observations On-Line (S’COOL) Project, begun in 1997, seeks to motivate students across the entire K-12 spectrum to learn science basics and how they tie in to a larger picture. The project uses a connection to an on-going NASA science investigation, the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project, as a powerful motivator. S’COOL participants collect cloud observations which are used to ground truth CERES satellite measurements. Students from 78 countries around the world participate in S’COOL, creating a global online community of citizen scientists.In 2008 the project was officially extended into wider public participation through the development of the S’COOL Rover capability. Leveraging new web and computer developments, the Rover website enables people anywhere (see figure for source of reports so far) to obtain satellite overpass times, report observations, and explore matching satellite data processed within a week. It also provides necessary background information explaining why these observations are needed and how to make and report them. Shortly after the Rover site was developed, the Around the Americas Project, run by the Pacific Science Center and Sailors for the Sea, contacted S’COOL. They are currently making periodic cloud observations from a sailboat on a one-year journey circumnavigating the North and South American continents using the S’COOL Rover capability. This has provided a unique opportunity to obtain ground truth cloud observations for CERES from remote areas such as the Northwest Passage, while providing interesting reports and photos for S’COOL students and the “Roving” public alike to explore. This paper will present the latest results from the S’COOL Rover website, and the impact that public participation is having on CERES research into the cloud effects on the Earth’s radiation budget and climate.

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