JSC: Day 2 Agenda (Tuesday, June 22, 2010)

6:30 AM to 7:45 AM (Breakfast)

• Breakfast at hotel

7:45 AM to 8:00 AM (Travel)

• Meet in hotel lobby
• Travel together by bus to Johnson Space Center

8:00 AM to 9:45 AM

• GIS Review

9:45 AM to 10:00 AM (Break)

• Coffee, tea, and a light snack

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• Dr. Will Stefanov
• Dr. Will Stefanovs Power Point on Demographic influence on surface temperature and NDVI (PowerPoint 28.2MB Jun24 10)
• Compare remotely sensed surface temperature data for Houston, TX and Phoenix, AZ acquired during summer 2000 to US Census data for the same year in a GIS environment, in order to see if socioeconomic status correlates to differences in the biophysical environment.

11:30 AM to 1:00 PM (Lunch)

• Lunch catered

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

• Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Lab
• Speakers: Kimberly Willis and Paige Valderrama Graff (paige.v.graff@nasa.gov)
• Expedition Earth and Beyond
• Spheres of Earth: Teacher and Student Guides (The instructional materials containing the activity that Paige used)
• How are Earth's Sphere's Interacting?

2:30 PM to 2:45 PM (Break)

• Coffee, tea, and a light snack

2:45 PM to 4:00 PM

• Introducing the Ambassador Program; Meet in Ambassador groups

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (Travel + Break)

• Travel back to hotel
• Break time before dinner

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (Dinner)

• Buffet dinner at the hotel

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (Open Lab)

• Finding out about My World software; Locating GIS data