NASA Announces Major Airborne Pollution/Climate Study June 6

June 4, 2013

Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

Jim Scott
University of Colorado, Boulder
303-492-3114
Jim.Scott@colorado.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-092

NASA ANNOUNCES MAJOR AIRBORNE POLLUTION/CLIMATE STUDY JUNE 6

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT,
Thursday, June 6, to announce a new airborne science campaign over
the southern United States. The campaign will investigate how air
pollution and natural emissions affect climate and the atmosphere.

The Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate
Coupling by Regional Surveys campaign, or SEAC4RS, is NASA's most
complex airborne mission of the year. The mission targets summertime
emissions from intense forest fires in the U.S. West and natural
emissions from forests in the Southeast. Flights begin in August from
Houston's Ellington Field and continue through September.

The panelists for the teleconference are:
-- Brian Toon, SEAC4RS principal investigator, Department of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
-- Hal Maring, radiation sciences program manager, Earth Science
Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington

To dial-in to the teleconference, reporters must contact Steve Cole at
202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov with their media affiliation
by 11 a.m., June 6. Questions also can be submitted via Twitter
during the briefing by using the hashtag #askNASA.

To listen to the briefing live on NASA's website, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For more information on the mission, visit:

http://espo.nasa.gov/missions/seac4rs


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