This summer we are working on a few really interesting projects. In mid-September look for a six episode podcast series and Google Earth Tour about remote sensing and the global food system. We’ll talk to NASA scientists to find out how satellite images are helping farmers, businesses and governments around the world predict who will have productive yields, who won’t, when to harvest, and how to predict where to distribute food aid in the immediate future. The Google Earth Tour will present a case study of the Global Food Crisis of 2008, explaining why we saw such a sharp increase in commodity prices in 2008, what the contributing factors were, and how we can prevent such a thing from happening again. The podcast series will be published on nasa.gov, facebook, YouTube and the Earth Observatory. Check back in September!
October 11-17th is Earth Science Week! Sponsored by the American Geological Institute, the theme of this year’s Earth Science Week is “Understanding Climate.” To help celebrate, NASA Goddard is producing a podcast series about oceans and climate, plus a few other exciting activities like live webcasts and educational materials.
In the meantime, be sure to check out our YouTube channel, NASAexplorer. It has videos covering everything from Apollo to Earth Science. Also, check out the Earth Observatory blog, Journey to Galapagos, by NASA oceanographer Gene Feldman (http://tinyurl.com/kwjjbw).
