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Meet the Scientists: Surface Measurements of Ozone The GLOBE Program and Great Smokey Mountain National Park |
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Meet the Scientists: Surface Measurements of Ozone The GLOBE Program and Great Smokey Mountain National Park |
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Dr. Jack FishmanPrincipal Investigator, Ozone Dr. Fishman has been studying ozone for more than 30 years. He came to NASA in 1979 after completing his Ph.D. and after working at both the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Jack has been interested in developing a way to measure ozone pollution from satellites. Jack is also a member of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Science Team. OMI operates on NASA’s Aura satellite (http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/), which is devoted to making measurements of atmospheric trace gases so that scientists can better understand how the composition of the earth’s atmosphere is changing. |
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Dr. Irene Ladd Educational Co-Principal Investigator Irene has developed the surface ozone protocol and field tested the instruments used for measuring surface ozone. She also developed and coordinated the training in the surface ozone protocol. Irene will continue to provide teachers training in the GLOBE surface Ozone Protocol, monitoring the submission of surface ozone data, and additional support for student inquiry using their own data. |
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 Susan SachsEducation Coordinator, Great Smoky Mountains National Park National Park Service Ms. Sachs is a National Park ranger and the Education Coordinator for the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, which is located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The ozone garden database allows students to enter data and compare their data to that of a previous group or a group at another site. Currently 36 schools have set up schoolyard gardens. One of the exciting aspects of this study is that there is an international team of researchers who occasionally check the ozone garden database to see how the student ozone gardens are progressing. |