Education and Public Outreach

The GRACE mission benefits from and will build upon the interest in oceanography that has been growing in recent years with the recognition of the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon. GRACE provides a strong basis to draw public and student interest since new, extremely accurate models of the Earth's gravity field will be generated.

The Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) works in partnership with the mission team to develop and implement GRACE education and outreach. GRACE master teachers were selected from across the nation through an application and review process.These master teachers have created interdisciplinary K-12 educational materials that meet the National Educational Standards to support the GRACE mission in the areas of Satellites, Gravity,Weather/Climate/Atmosphere, Oceans, and GRACE general mission facts and objectives.These master teachers have trained hundreds of teachers about the GRACE mission impacting tens of thousands of students, and the activities have been tested in classrooms across the nation.When GRACE launches, the activities will be available to all educators on the TSGC web site, http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/education/. In addition to classroom activities, an online GRACE activity guide, coloring book, and on-line quiz will be available for all interested.

Animations, photos and interviews with mission personnel will be available to all traditional media outlets television, print, and radio. Computer animation, showing the spacecraft deployments, orbit ground tracks, data collection, and real world applications of the data, is available.The GRACE web site will also document, publicize, and expand the mission's science data including computer animations, downloadable educational materials, a frequently asked questions (FAQ) archive, and evaluation/ suggestion forms for feedback.This information will be updated regularly.

United States

AMA	Analytical Mechanics Association, Inc.	Hampton, VA
CU	The University of Colorado	Boulder, CO
GSFC	Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)	Greenbelt, MD
JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)	Pasadena, CA
JHUAPL	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.	Laurel, MD
KSC	Kennedy Space Center (NASA)	Cocoa Beach, VA
LaRC	Langley Research Center (NASA)	Hampton, VA
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA
OSU	The Ohio State University	Columbus, OH
SS/L	Space Systems/Loral	Palo Alto, CA
UTCSR	University of Texas Center for Space Research	Austin, TX

European

AGmbH	Astrium GmbH	Friedrichshafen, Germany
AWI	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research	Bremerhaven Germany
DLR	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt	Bonn, Germany
DLR/GSOC	DLR German Space Operations Center	Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
DTU	The Technical University of Denmark	Copenhagen, Denmark
EGmbH	Eurockot GmbH	Bremen, Germany
GFZ	GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam	Potsdam, Germany
GRGS	Groupe de Recherches de Géodésie Spatiale	Toulouse, France
IABG	Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH	Ottobrunn, Germany
KSG	Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen	Copenhagen, Denmark
KSRC	Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center	Moscow, Russia
ONERA	Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiale	Paris, France
TUM	Technical University of Munich	Munich, Germany
UB	University of Bonn	Bonn, Germany
UL	University of Lyon	Lyon, France

Key Participants

B. Tapley	UTCSR, Principal Investigator (PI)
C. Reigber	GFZ, Co-PI
A. Davis	JPL, Project Manager
M. Imhoff	GSFC, ESSP Project Scientist
E. Koenemann	DLR, GRACE Manager
R. Fitzgerald	GSFC, GRACE Mission Manager
M.M. Watkins	JPL, Project Scientist

U.S. Science Team

B. Tapley	UTCSR, Lead
S. Bettadpur	UTCSR
R. Gasparovic	JHUAPL
R.S. Gross	JPL
W.G. Melbourne	JPL
D. Porter	JHUAPL
C.K. Shum	OSU
J. Wahr	CU
M.M. Watkins	JPL
C. Wunsch	MIT

European Science Team

C. Reigber	GFZ, Lead
G. Balmino	GRGS
F. Flechtner	GFZ
K.H. Ilk	UB
N. Jakowski	DLR
P. Knudsen	KSG
Y. Ricard	UL
R. Rummel	TUM
J. Schroeter	AWI
P. Schwintzer	GFZ

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