Dr. Fritz Hasler earned his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin and the University of
Munich. He has worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland since 1974, after terms at NCAR
and Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique in Paris. His research involves estimation of winds and stereo
height measurements using geosynchronous satellite imagery. Fritz is the manager of the Public Use of Remote
Sensing Data (RSD) Program, GSFC Scientific Visualization in support of the White House GLOBE Project and
the Interactive Image Spread Sheet Project. He has published over 40 scientific papers and is known for images
and animations of hurricanes which have appeared frequently in the media. Recent TV and image appearances
include an NBC Episode of Sea Quest, National Geographic Nature on the Rampage, and GEO Magazine.
Greg Cox is a Research Scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and serves as the K-12
Education Coordinator for the Institute for Global Change Research and Education at the new Global Hydrology
and Climate Center (GHCC) in Huntsville, Alabama. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Biology
(environmental focus) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Greg develops environmental education
curriculum activities and coordinates teacher training within the GHCC, and is also the Director of Environmen-tal
Studies for the UAH Division of Continuing Education. He manages education and research contracts for
numerous federal and state agencies and is assisting the Russian Ministry of Education in creating an environmental
education network in the Rostov region of southern Russia. He serves as science advisor for ECO-BRIDGE,
an environmental research and cultural exchange program between high school students in the Tennessee
River valley and the Don River watershed in southern Russia, and has pioneered the use of packet radio
as a means of reliable electronic communication between these groups.
Susan Sorlie is the DAAC User Services Specialist at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. She earned
her undergraduate degree in Physical Geography from San Diego State University and her masters in Climatology
from the University of Delaware. Sue then worked at the George Washington University Biostatistics Center
as a research analyst programmer in the coordination of a national diabetes clinical trial. Upon joining
NASA, she served as science support for the EOSDIS Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC),
where she updated and wrote descriptive catalogs of data sets archived there. Sue's current duties at the Langley
DAAC include responding to user requests for data and information; facilitating the First ISCCP Regional
Experiment (FIRE) data ingest process; serving as science support to researchers and data producers; and coordinating
CD-ROM development, production, and distribution activities.
ECOlogic Corporation is a consulting and production company specializing in multimedia systems integration
and application development. Their mission is to enable organizations to learn and develop for success. ECOlogic
has established the Earth System Science Community Curriculum (ESSCC) Testbed, with support from Gonzaga
College High School (Washington, D.C.), NASA, and NASA Science Internet, The ESSCC Testbed is a three-year
project to train teachers and build a widely-distributed multimedia application delivered over the Internet
using the World Wide Web. The ESSCC is designed to support teachers and students in their investigations of
Earth system using NASA data and public domain software tools. The principals include:
- Michael Keeler–Principal Investigator, ECOlogic Corporation. He earned a B.S. in Development Economics
from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service; and an M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunication from
New York University where his areas of concentration included distributed network applications, human-network
interface design, and digital video. He teaches Earth System Science at Gonzaga College High School. As Program
Director, he is responsible for the overall management and oversight of the ESSCC Testbed.
- Dr. Farzad Mahootian–Co-Investigator, ECOlogic Corporation. He earned his M.S. Chemistry from Georgetown
University, and his Ph.D in Philosophy from Fordham University. His research has encompassed a diverse range
of topics from the role of metaphor in scientific concept-formation to experimentation with coupled chemical
oscillators. Farzad has twelve years of teaching experience in philosophy at Fordham, Georgetown, and George
Mason Universities. He teaches Earth System Science at Gonzaga. As the Science Education Director, Farzad leads
teacher training and the development of Earth system science curriculum.
- Greg Crist–Executive Producer, ECOlogic Corporation. Greg earned a B.A. in English at Georgetown Univer-sity.
Prior to ECOlogic, Greg consulted in the areas of commercial information systems and software development.
He now leads a team of programmers, systems integrators, and graphic designers to produce multimedia
educational applications delivered via Internet and on CD-ROM. At Gonzaga, he has directed the graphic and
technical production of Earth System Science Community Curriculum (ESSCC).
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