Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Description: "Do not go where the path may lead," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." That could be the motto of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Trailblazing has been the business of JPL since it was established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s. America's first satellite, Explorer 1, was created at JPL. In the decades that followed, we sent the first robotic craft to the Moon and out across the solar system, reconnoitering all of the planets except one. Pushing the outer edge of exploration, in fact, is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory. In that spirit, this is an exceptionally busy period for JPL in laying new paths. The Deep Impact spacecraft recently scored a phenomenal success when it blasted a crater in the nucleus of comet Tempel 1, revealing for the first time the inner stuff of these ancient wayfarers of the solar system. Another comet-chasing spacecraft, Stardust, is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of dust samples it collected when it flew by comet Wild 2 last year. The flagship explorer Cassini continues its looping orbits of Saturn, scrutinizing the ringed planet and its moons, including the haze-shrouded Titan. Like the alkaline batteries that don't give up, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers carry on in their ambles across the surface of Mars, probing rocks for signs of water in the planet's past -- far beyond the mission they were originally designed for. The Voyagers are exploring the edge of our solar system. In total, JPL has 16 spacecraft across the solar system. All these missions are part of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, to send robots and humans to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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Université de Liège
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National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Description: NIWA’s mission is to provide a scientific basis for the sustainable management and development of New Zealand’s atmospheric, marine and freshwater systems and associated resources. Established in 1992 as one of nine New Zealand Crown Research Institutes (CRIs), NIWA operates as a stand-alone company with its own board of directors and its shares held by the Crown. The company has a staff of around 630, annual revenue of $84 million derived from competition-based research grants and commercial enterprise, and assets of $65 million (figures from 2003 Annual Report). Our science provides the basis for sustainable resource management, and our consultancy services help clients solve problems on the use and management of: Atmosphere & Climate, Coast & Oceans, Freshwater, Fisheries and Aquaculture. Spread throughout New Zealand, NIWA has its corporate headquarters in Auckland, main research campuses in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Lauder, and field offices in the smaller centres. Research vessels are maintained in Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. The company has subsidiaries in Australia and the USA and a vessel company.
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Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Science and Technology - Paris
Description: With 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, and some 700 doctorates awarded on thesis work, 3000 postgraduate degrees and diplomas every year, UPMC stands as a unique university research center in both France and Europe, with 180 research laboratories including 130 working in association with prominent research bodies (e.g. CNRS and INSERM).
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Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Description: The Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (PAOS) is an interdisciplinary program that provides an educational and research environment to examine the dynamical, physical, and chemical processes that occur in the atmosphere and the ocean. A major theme is the establishment of a physical basis for understanding, observing, and modeling climate and global change. Graduate students, research staff, and faculty work together on a wide range of research topics: large-scale dynamics of the ocean and the atmosphere; air-sea interaction; radiative transfer and remote sensing of the ocean and the atmosphere; sea ice and its role in climate; cloud-climate interactions; atmospheric chemistry and aerosols; atmospheric technology; extended weather and climate prediction; hydrological processes; and boundary layer measurement and modeling.
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Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Description: The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA is the founding branch of a Multi-campus Research Unit now established on four other campuses (UCR, UCSD, UCI and UCSC) and at two of the national laboratories administered by the
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Penn State Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Description: Environmental study and research in the Department of Meteorology spans the atmosphere, oceans, and their interplay with land, plants, and human activity. We study the fundamental properties of atmospheric and oceanic chemistry and transport; we develop combined modeling and observing systems for forecasting ozone and other pollutants and for predicting effects of future climates. Modeling is done on computers in the department and in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Observations come from instruments, some designed and built by us, that are deployed either at local field sites or on towers, aircraft, and ships at locations all around the world. These individual efforts all contribute to one overall goal: to develop truly predictive models of Earth and its habitability.
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Carnegie Department of Global Ecology
Description: The Carnegie Institution is a private organization that conducts basic research for the benefit of humanity. Its Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic research on the interactions among the earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans. The goal of this research is understanding the ways these interactions shape the behavior of the earth system, including its responses to future changes. The Department of Global Ecology includes faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates, plus technical and administrative staff. There are opportunities for volunteers who wish to be involved in the research.
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University of Iowa's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research
Description: University of Iowa's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research promotes interdisplinary research efforts that focus on the multiple aspects of global and environmental change, including the regional effects of natural ecosystems, environments, and resources as well as on human health, culture, and social sciences.
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University of California, Irvine - Department of Earth System Science
Description: Understanding global environmental issues such as global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion and worldwide air pollution requires the cooperation of scientists across many disciplines. Global change is projected to accelerate through the 21st century and will impact the ecosystems that preserve the habitability of the planet. The Department of Earth System Science focuses on the atmosphere, land and oceans - how they interact as a system - and how the Earth will change over a human lifetime. Founded as a Geosciences program in 1989 with current Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone as director, Earth System Science achieved department status in 1995. Less than a decade later, the Department of Earth System Science has earned a reputation as one of the most influential academic departments in the nation devoted to studying the Earth as a system.
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