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AN: ED51B-0422    [Abstracts]
TI: Surface Ozone Measured at GLOBE Schools in the Czech Republic: A Demonstration of the Importance of Student Contribution to the Larger Science Picture
AU: * Creilson, J
EM: john.k.creilson@nasa.gov
AF: Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), 1 Enterprise Parkway, Hampton, VA 23666, United States
AU: * Creilson, J
EM: john.k.creilson@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Pippin, M
EM: margaret.r.pippin@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Henderson, B
EM: bryana@chem.ucla.edu
AF: Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) Program, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Ladd, I
EM: i.h.ladd@larc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Fishman, J
EM: jack.fishman@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Votápková, D
EM: dana.votapkova@terezanet.cz
AF: TEREZA Association, Praha 1, Prague, 24, 116 47, Czech Republic
AU: Krpcová, I
EM: ilona.krpcova@terezanet.cz
AF: TEREZA Association, Praha 1, Prague, 24, 116 47, Czech Republic
AB: GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program and was developed to give students a chance to perform real science by making measurements, analyzing data, and participating in research in collaboration with scientists. When it was first established in 1994, one cornerstone of the vision for GLOBE was that it would provide a mechanism by which K-12 students could contribute meaningfully to the earth science community. As part of the GLOBE Surface Ozone Protocol and with the assistance of the TEREZA Association in the Czech Republic, schools in the Czech Republic have been making and reporting daily measurements of surface ozone and surface meteorological data since 2001. Using a hand-held ozone monitor developed for GLOBE, students at several Czech schools have generated multiyear data records of surface ozone from 2001-2005. Analysis of the data shows surface ozone levels were anomalously high during the summer of 2003 relative to other summers. These findings are consistent with measurements by the European Environment Agency that highlights the summer of 2003 as having exceptionally long-lasting and spatially extensive episodes of high surface ozone, especially during the first half of August. Further analysis of the summer's prevailing meteorology shows not only that it was one of the hottest on record, a finding also seen in the student data, but the conditions for production of ozone were ideal. Findings such as these increase student, teacher, and scientist confidence in the utility of the GLOBE data for engaging budding scientists in the collection, analysis, and eventual interpretation of the data for inquiry-based education.
DE: 0345 Pollution: urban and regional (0305, 0478, 4251)
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
DE: 3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting