AScribe Science News Service articles from September 2004

AScribe Science News Service archives from September 2004

NASA Coverage of Genesis Midair Recovery.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
September 2, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Next week, NASA's Genesis mission returns samples of the solar wind to Earth. Helicopters will capture the sample capsule in midair over Utah's salt flats....

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Engineer Selected As Young Innovator.(Ayanna Howard)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Ayanna Howard, an electrical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been selected to participate in the National Academy of...

Experts to Explore Relationship Between American Indians, Museums.
September 3, 2004... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Illinois at Chicago today released the following advisory. WHAT: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation's American Indian Studies...

U. T. Dallas' Dr. Inga Musselman New President of Microbeam Analysis Society.(University of Texas at Dallas)
September 7, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Inga Holl Musselman, associate professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), last month became president of the Microbeam...

NASA a 'Go' for Midair Capture of Samples From Sun.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
September 7, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Genesis spacecraft crossed the orbit of the Moon early Monday, Sept. 6, on its way to the mission's dramatic finale over the skies of west-central...

Spitzer Arrives at Scene of Galactic Collision.(Spitzer Space Telescope)
September 7, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has set its infrared sight on a major galactic collision and witnessed not death, but a teeming nest of life. The...

Genesis Mission Status Report: Parachute Fails, Capsule Crashes Into Ground.
September 8, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Genesis sample return capsule entered Earth's atmosphere at 9:52:47 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time and entered the preplanned entry ellipse in the Utah Test...

Photo Release: Dying Star Creates Fantasy-Like Sculpture of Gas and Dust.
September 9, 2004... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study of a large number of planetary nebulae has revealed that rings, such as those seen here around the Cat's Eye Nebula, are much more common...

NASA Schedules Teleconference on Genesis Mission.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Representatives of NASA's Genesis Project will be available to answer questions about the status of the mission at a media teleconference today at 10:30 a.m....

Berkeley Lab Soil Scientist Margaret Torn Receives Presidential Early Career Award.
September 9, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a White House ceremony held Thursday, September 9, 2004 in the nation's capital, Margaret Torn, a scientist with the Earth Sciences Division of...

Genesis Mission Status Report: Inventory of Canister Is Being Conducted.(Brief Article)
September 9, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Genesis team specialists are beginning the process of conducting inventory of the contents of the craft's science canister. The canister is inside a...

Revised Time for Genesis Mission Media Teleconference.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Genesis news conference originally scheduled for 8:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time today has been rescheduled to 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. Eastern Time)....

Grant Lets Johns Hopkins Math Department Bang the Research Drum: Mathematicians Explore Modes of Vibration of Objects From Atoms to Molecules to Universe.
September 14, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Sept. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- A $975,398 National Science Foundation grant is allowing a team including mathematicians at The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences to...

Assessment Is More Than a Report Card: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Designs Survey to Evaluate Science Education Programs.
September 14, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Sept. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Measuring the effectiveness of a science education outreach program too often means toting up the number of participants and calling it evaluation. A...

Frances, Ivan Contribute to Hurricane Studies.(Hurricane Frances, 2004, Hurricane Ivan, 2004)
September 14, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seen through the eyes of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite, the menacing clouds of Hurricanes Frances and Ivan provide...

Plague and Prairie Dogs: Conflicts Between Wildlife Conservation and Protection of Public Health; NSF Lecture on Ecology of Infectious Diseases Sept. 20.
September 15, 2004... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Urbanization results in the fragmentation of native habitats, which dramatically alters the rate of transmission and spread of infectious diseases,...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Puts Young White Shark in Million-Gallon Outer Bay Exhibit.
September 15, 2004... Byline: Monterey Bay Aquarium MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Monterey Bay Aquarium placed a small white shark on exhibit Tuesday evening (Sept. 14), three weeks after she was caught inadvertently in a commercial...

Researchers at International Computer Science Institute Develop Open-Source Alternative to Expensive Routers.
September 15, 2004... Byline: International Computer Science Institute BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The International Computer Science Institute's eXtensible Open Router Platform (XORP) has released its open source router software. XORP...

National Ecology Center at UC Santa Barbara Awarded $2 Million Packard Grant; Researchers to Develop Knowledge, Tools for Sustainable Management of Coastal, Marine, Terrestrial Ecosystems.
September 16, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent U.S. Commission for Ocean Policy Report calls for a national ocean policy that balances use with sustainability, and moves...

NASA, JPL Share Vision of Space Exploration With Local School.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Flory Academy of Sciences and Technology)
September 16, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kevin Petersen, the director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., and NASA Astronaut Dr. Anna Fisher will visit Flory Academy of...

Hurricane Expert Available From Harding University.
September 17, 2004... Byline: Dick Jones Communications SEARCY, Ark., Sept. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- While this hurricane season has been more damaging than any other in recent memory, it's not exceptional. So says Dr. Eric Gross, associate professor of...

NASA Selects Contractor for First Prometheus Mission to Jupiter.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
September 20, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., selected Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., as the contractor for...

Moore Foundation Awards $2.38 Million for Supernova Research.(Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
September 21, 2004... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of San Francisco has awarded $2,377,000 to the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences...

Marine Microbes Focus of Major Gift to MIT.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
September 21, 2004... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Marine microbes shape the chemical composition of the Earth's oceans and atmosphere, yet we know essentially nothing about them. Now, thanks to major grants from the Gordon and...

Ocean Groups Urge President's Speedy Response to U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Report.
September 21, 2004... Byline: Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) joined forces with the National Association of State Universities and Land...

Rover Missions Renewed As Mars Emerges From Behind Sun.
September 21, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space agency...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Names Vijay Samalam Executive Director; Appointment Marks Progress in SDSC's Mission to Create World-Class Cyberinfrastructure.
September 22, 2004... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego announced today that Dr. Vijay Samalam has been appointed SDSC executive...

Educator Astronaut Shares Vision of Space With Local Students.
September 22, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA Educator Astronaut Barbara Morgan and Blaine Baggett, executive manager of the Office of Communications and Education at NASA's Jet Propulsion...

New Book by Pomona College Professor Reveals Link Between Artisans and Science.
September 23, 2004... Byline: Claremont Graduate University CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late...

NASA: Genesis Mission Team Ships First Sample From Utah Desert.
September 23, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Genesis team has shipped its first scientific sample from the mission's specially constructed cleanroom at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Dugway, Utah. The...

University of Chicago's Idaho Laboratory Director Candidate Nominated for White House Appointment.
September 24, 2004... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Bush has nominated Dan Arvizu to the National Science Board. Arvizu is a former executive of CH2M Hill and now the University of Chicago's candidate for...

Atacama Rover Helps NASA Learn to Search for Life on Mars.
September 27, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A dedicated team of scientists is spending the next four weeks in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. They are studying the scarce life that exists there and, in...

Mars Orbiter Sees Rover Tracks Among Thousands of New Images.
September 27, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, starting its third mission extension this week after seven years of orbiting Mars, is using an innovative technique to capture...

Supernova Warning System Will Give Astronomers Earlier Notice.
September 28, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Supernova Early Warning System (SNEWS) that detects ghostlike neutrino particles that are the earliest emanations from the immense, explosive death throes of large...

NASA Schedules Genesis Mission Cleanroom Media Opportunity.(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists and technicians from NASA's Genesis Project are available Thursday, Sept. 30, at 1 p.m. local Mountain Time to answer questions about the status...

Nobel Prize-Winning Biological Chemist Peter Agre to Speak Oct. 11 - 12 at University of Virginia.
September 29, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nobel laureate Dr. Peter Agre, a ground-breaking biological chemist from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will present a public lecture,...

Researchers Seek to Lure More Women, Minorities to Engineering; NSF Grant Will Support Revamp of Undergraduate Classes to Broaden the Profession's Appeal.
September 29, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins University researchers have received nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to produce and begin testing a revised course of...

NASA Virtual News Briefing: Genesis Cleanroom Update.
September 29, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Thursday, Sept. 30, at noon Pacific time (3 p.m. Eastern time), Eileen Stansbery, a member of the Genesis cleanroom team, will answer questions about the...

NASA Recruits Community Outreach Volunteers for 2005.
September 29, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Calling all space buffs! NASA's Solar System Ambassadors program is recruiting more volunteers to spread the marvel of space science and exploration across...

NASA, JPL Share Vision of Space Exploration With Local School.
September 30, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Anngie Johnson, senior advisor to NASA's chief engineer, and NASA Astronaut Greg Chamitoff will visit Mesa Union Elementary School, a NASA Explorer School,...

Genesis Mission Status Report: Samples to Be Shipped to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
September 30, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Genesis team is preparing to ship its samples of the Sun from the mission's temporary cleanroom at the U.S. Army Proving Ground, Dugway, Utah, to NASA's...