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GLOBAL AIR
POLLUTION MONITORING DEBUTS AT AGU PRESS BRIEFING, MAY 30
NASA's Terra spacecraft has produced the most complete view
of the world's air pollution ever assembled. Policymakers and
scientists now have, for the first time, a way to identify the
major sources of air pollution and closely track where the
pollution goes all year round and anywhere on Earth.
The first observations from this unprecedented
environmental monitoring capability will be released at a
press briefing Wednesday, May 30, at 11:00 a.m. EDT at the
American Geophysical Union meeting in Boston, Mass. The event
will be held in Room 111 of Boston's Hynes Convention Center,
900 Boylston Street.
The panelists at the briefing will be:
* John Gille, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colo.
* James Drummond, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* Jean-Francois Lamarque, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colo.
* Daniel Jacob, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Media can register for the briefing at the AGU Press Room,
Room 104 of the Hynes Convention Center, beginning May 29 at
7:30 a.m. For more information, contact Harvey Leifert, AGU
Public Information Manager, tel. 202-777-7507, e-mail hleifert@agu.org;
after May 28: AGU Press Room, tel. 617-954-3138; fax
617-954-3144.
Visualizations of the new global observations will be
broadcast on NASA TV on Wednesday, May 30 at 12 noon. NASA TV
is broadcast on the GE2 satellite which is located on
Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880.0
MHz, audio 6.8 MHz.
For more information on this press release contact:
Lynn Chandler
Lynn.Chandler.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301 614-5562)
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