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AN: ED51B-0028    [Abstracts]
TI: Sun-Earth Scientists and Native Americans Collaborate on Sun-Earth Day
AU: * Ng, C Y
EM: cang@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: QSS/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 633, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Lopez, R E
EM: relopez@fit.edu
AF: Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 150 W. University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901 United States
AU: Hawkins, I
EM: isabelh@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, MC 7450, Berkeley, CA 94704 United States
AB: Sun-Earth Connection scientists have established partnerships with several minority professional societies to reach out to the blacks, Hispanics and Native American students. Working with NSBP, SACNAS, AISES and NSHP, SEC scientists were able to speak in their board meetings and national conferences, to network with minority scientists, and to engage them in Sun-Earth Day. Through these opportunities and programs, scientists have introduced NASA research results as well indigenous views of science. They also serve as role models in various communities. Since the theme for Sun-Earth Day 2005 is Ancient Observatories: Timeless Knowledge, scientists and education specialists are hopeful to excite many with diverse backgrounds. Sun-Earth Day is a highly visible annual program since 2001 that touches millions of students and the general public. Interviews, classroom activities and other education resources are available on the web at sunearthday.nasa.gov.
UR: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov
DE: 7500 SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting