Acknowledgements

The Mars Observer Thermal Emission Spectrometer Educational Outreach Project at Arizona State University (ASU) has been slowly ramping-up since early 1992. Much of what we have been doing has happened only since January 1993. A variety of people have helped make this possible. The funding is provided by a special Educational Supplement to NASA Grant NAGW 943. Dr. Philip Christensen, Principal Investigator for the Mars Observer Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES), and Linda Jaramillo, of the TES Project Office, have provided considerable support and encouragement to the staff to keep the educational effort going. Since January 1993, ASU student Steven Schmidt has also been a key player in the educational outreach effort--- his experience has contributed much to the project, particularly in leading the visits by teachers and their students at the TES facility. He has also developed and maintained the ever-important TES mailing list.

Additional help has come from the rest of the ASU Mars Observer TES staff. As of August 1993, this staff consisted of Dr. Donald Anderson, Dr. Philip Christensen, Linda Jaramillo, Kathy Patoni, Paul Barbera, Mark Mann, Greg Mehall, Dave Melendrez, Dale Noss, Tom O'Reilly, Marsha Presley, Mike Ramsey, David Reyes, Steve Ruff, Melissa Wenrich, Jodi Goldblatt, Doug Howard, Stacy McBride, Brett McClellan, Steve Schmidt, and myself. Additional assistance for TES educational outreach came from former TES staff members Tiffany Montoya, Diana Church, Rebecca Rowell, and Scott Sands. Bob Pappalardo, a planetary geology graduate student with Dr. Ronald Greeley, has also been quite helpful to the TES outreach effort, providing assistance at our workshops and related efforts.

We also have many thanks for Dr. Fred Staley and Mary Della Bourgeois of the ASU College of Education for their assistsance and support in helping us get the education effort underway. They helped us form the TES Education Outreach Advisory Group, which met nearly every month from July 1992 to May 1993. These folks are very helpful and provide much guidance. They include: Dave Harbster (Chandler, AZ), Tony Occhiuzzi (Tempe High School), Dr. Sheryl Santos (ASU College of Education), Steve Jones (J.B. Sutton Elementary, Phoenix, AZ), Mary Martin (Pima/Kiva Elementary Schools, Scottsdale, AZ), Kathryn Nichols (Valley View Elementary, Phoenix, AZ), Mary Palmer (Bethune Elementary, Phoenix, AZ), and Addie Kinsinger and Harold Frederick (KAET-TV ASSET, Tempe, AZ). Sue Cox-Kauffman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC, Washington, DC) is also thanked for her efforts working with NASA to bring the excitement of space science education to kids around the country.

-- Ken Edgett, August 12, 1993

On-Line: 2 February 1994
TES 1993-1994 Curriculum Guide / K.S. Edgett / edgett@elvis.mars.asu.edu