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The Fragile Ice
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Presenters:
Dr. Waleed Abdalati
Dr. Abdalati has been head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center since January, 2004, conducting research on high-latitude glaciers
and ice sheets using satellite and airborne instruments. He has led or participated
in 9 field expeditions to remote regions of the Greenland ice sheet and the ice
caps in the Canadian Arctic. From 2000 to the 2006, he managed NASA's Cryospheric
Sciences Program, overseeing NASA-funded research efforts on glaciers, ice sheets,
sea ice, and polar climate. During that time, he also served as Program Scientist
for NASA's Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), which has as its primary
objective understanding changes in the Earth's ice cover.
Dr. Abdalati received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado's Program in Atmospheric
and Ocean Sciences in 1996 and worked as a research scientist at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center from 1996 through 2000. Prior to earning his Ph.D. he earned
a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University (1986) and an M.S. in
Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado (1991) and worked
as an engineer in the aerospace industry from 1986 - 1990. He was awarded the Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House in 1999 and
received a NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2004.
Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University
of Pittsburgh. His undergraduate work was a dual major in History and Philosophy
of Science and Earth and Space Science Education and graduate work was in Earth
and Space Science Instruction. Upon completing graduate school, Mr. Campbell taught
4 years of high school as an Earth/Space Science, Environmental Science, and Physics
teacher at the Cambridge-South Dorchester High School in Cambridge, Maryland. During
the summers of 1999 and 2000, he worked as a NASA Science Teacher Ambassador at
the Goddard Space Flight Center writing curriculum to be piloted in schools throughout
the nation. Mr. Campbell has assisted in writing curriculum and education guidelines
for NASA, NOAA, Maryland State Teachers Association (MSTA), Dorchester County (MD)
Public Schools, and the American Sportfishing Association.
Currently, Mr. Campbell works for Science Applications International Corporation
(SAIC) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Maryland) and the NASA
Wallops Flight Facility (Wallops Island, Virginia) and serves as the Hydrospheric
and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory Education Liaison, the ICESat Mission Education
Lead, and the CoastalObs Project Education Manager. Mr. Campbell has given hundreds
of NASA science education presentations since starting at NASA in 2001 and has received
the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory Peer Award for Outstanding Support
Service Contractor for NASA Education in 2002 and 2005.
Dr. Mary Albert
Dr. Mary Albert is a senior research engineer at the U.S. Army ERDC Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is also an Adjunct Professor
at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Mary studies heat, mass,
and electromagnetic transfer in porous media. She especially enjoys investigations
of air-snow transfer on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets for ice core interpretation
and understanding the impact of photochemical reactions in snow on atmospheric chemistry.
She has many seasons of experience in field expeditions in Greenland and Antarctica.
Dr. Albert received her Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences from
the University of California San Diego in 1992. She received a B.E. and M.E. in
Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth in 1983, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Penn
State in 1975. She was the recipient of the Army R&D Award in 1989, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers Women in Science Achievement Award in 1996, U.S. Army Commander's Award
for Civilian Service in 1999, and many Army EEO, Performance, and Special Act awards.
From 2003-2005, Dr. Albert served as Chair of the U.S. National Committee for the
International Polar Year, a committee of the National Research Council Polar Research
Board.
Sandy Shutey
Sandy Shutey completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Carroll College
in Helena, Montana. She finished her Masters of Science Education with an emphasis
in physics at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. During the fall of 1997,
Ms. Shutey was a TEA (Teacher experiencing the Artic/Antarctic) with Dr. Mary Albert
at Siple Dome, Antarctica. During 2001 and 2002, she continued her education through
the M. J. Murdock grant. She also received their exit grant for 2003 and 2004. In
the summers of 2005 - 2006, Ms. Shutey became a part of the QuarkNet group at Idaho
State University.
For the last 20 years, Ms. Shutey has taught science at Butte High School in Butte,
Montana. She also mentors the Butte High Science National Honor Society.
For more information contact symposia@nsta.org
Underwritten in part by NSF, NASA, and NOAA.
