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Frank Niepold

Communicating Climate Changes

Presenter: Frank Niepold received his MSEd in Earth Space Science Education (2006) from John's Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD with areas of concentration in Earth Observing Systems, Scientist/Teacher/Student Collaboration and Earth Systems science education focused on climate. He earned a BA in Human Ecology (1994) from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME and B.F.A. in Photography and Video (1989) from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Frank Niepold is currently a Climate Education Fellow at NOAA's Climate Program Office in Silver Spring Maryland and a GLOBE Program Master Trainer.

Abstract: As part of NOAA’s climate program efforts, climate scientists at NOAA strive to understand how short-term climate changes such as El Nino and long-term changes in climate such as global warming impact all of us. Given the effects from climate change, how does NOAA help? We continually strive to improve weather forecasts, which predict out to two weeks in advance and climate products that provide forecast guidance from months through decades and centuries. By supplying climate information, products, and services, NOAA enables society to understand and respond to changing climate conditions. Together with our partners, we will accelerate the development of information to support climate policy decisions and plans that consider climate change whether it is due to El Nino or global warming. In the development of these climate products and services we need to have a greater appreciation of how to communicate effectively with all of the audiences that range from decision makers to various sectors of the public. We will direct our efforts and actions toward delivering trusted, timely information services to those who need and can use them, while also a working to ensure that the public is sufficiently empowered to translate scientific information.

Biographical Sketch: Frank Niepold is currently a Climate Education Fellow at NOAA's Climate Program Office in Silver Spring Maryland and a GLOBE Program Master Trainer. At NOAA, he develops and implements NOAA's Climate goal education and outreach efforts that specifically relate to NOAA's Environmental Literacy cross cutting priority. As a GLOBE Trainer, he trains teachers in intensive field and laboratory settings throughout the United States and Internationally, most recently in Phuket Thailand. Mr. Niepold has spent seven years developing remote sensing educational materials for the Landsat Educational Outreach team. He has spent 10 years working as a Middle/High School Earth Systems Science Teacher. As a teacher, he developed an international school collaboration series of projects using the scientist/teacher/student partnership model to monitor climate change. Projects include: Coral reef monitoring in the Caribbean, Red, and Arabian Seas; Global monitoring and validation of Aerosols; Glacial retreat among others.

His collaboration on a paper about International GLOBE Program collaborations, Scientist-Teacher-Student Partnerships For Aerosol Optical Thickness Measurements In Support Of Ground Validation Programs For Remote Sensing Spacecraft, was selected by International Astronautical Federation for their 53th International Astronautical Congress. Mr. Niepold and four of his student's paper, Assessing Satellite-Based Aerosol Retrievals And Ground Truth Validation For Terra's MODIS Sensor Over Urban Areas Using The Globe Program's Handheld Sun Photometers, was one of the ten projects selected to be presented at the 2003 Global Learning Exhibition, by the GLOBE program in Sibenck, Croatia. This work was highlighted in several articles, one was featured on a NASA news web site, The Globe Program: Science in the Sunshine.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_Globe_Program_Sunshine.html

Mr. Niepold is happily married with three boys and resides in Olney, MD, USA. He received his MSEd in Earth Space Science Education (2006) from John's Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD with areas of concentration in Earth Observing Systems, Scientist/Teacher/Student Collaboration and Earth Systems science education focused on climate. He earned a BA in Human Ecology (1994) from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME and B.F.A. in Photography and Video (1989) from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. An interview of Frank Niepold is available at the NASA Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics Education and Outreach.

Web Site: http://ltp-education.gsfc.nasa.gov/niepold1.html

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