Outreach

GSFC Education Programs office is hosting a NASA Administrator's Fellow from Cheyney University, Dr. Ayodele Aina, Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Aina's will research methods for integrating NASA mathematics into the middle school curriculum and pre-service education.

GSFC scientists recently provided Anne Arundel County science teachers in-service presentation on Earth science content at the Visitor's Center. The presenters included Keff Holverson, TRMM Outreach, Joanna Joiner, Data Assimilation and Claire Parkinson, Aqua.

CNN.com featured an article on Moon trees that traveled to space as seedlings that were planted once they returned to Earth. The article quotes Dave Williams, planetary scientist at Goddard, who manages a web site that tracks the location and type of the known moon trees.