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  I am offering a new special topics course, "Understanding Research in
Earth Observing" this fall.  The course is based on a seminar series and
meets twice a week outside of the seminar series.  The seminar speakers will
provide articles and/or book chapters that give background information for
their talk.  Students will read and discuss the articles prior to the
seminar and will write one short paper each month that explores one of that
month's topics in greater detail.  There are two sections - ASEN 3519, section
001 and ASEN 4519, section 004.

  The following is a weekly layout of speakers and topics for the seminar
series:

September 6  Wes Berg, CIRES and Climate Diagnostic Center, NOAA
        Rainfall Monitoring Via Satellite

          13  Kelly Irish, Colorado Center for Astrodynamic Research
        Orbit Determination for Altimetric Satellites

          20  Sandy MacDonald, Director, Forecast Systems Lab (FSL), NOAA
        The Advanced Weather Information System Being Built at FSL
        (seminar to be held at FSL)

          27  Shalen Desai, Colorado Center for Astrodynamic Research
        Empirical Ocean Tides Model from TOPEX/POSEIDON Altimetry

October   4  TBD, Colorado Center for Astrodynamic Research
        Oceanic Science Remote Sensing Topic

          11  Fran Bagenal, APAS
        The Space Environment

          18  Kenn Gold, Colorado Center for Astrodynamic Research
        Orbit Determination for the Extreme Ultra Violet Explorer

          25  Roger Barry, Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center
        Cryosphere Remote Sensing

November   1  Bob Leben and Chad Fox, Colorado Center for Astrodyamic Research
        Altimetry in the Bering Sea

           8  Carol Wessman (tentative) EPOB and CIRES
        Remote Sensing of Vegetation

          15  John Birks, CIRES and Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
        Atmospheric Observations from High Altitude Kites and Balloons

          29  Dan Rodier, Colorado Space Grant College
        Atmospheric Remote Sensing


The course is 3 credits and meets M,W,F 4 - 4:50.  The seminars are on Wed.
The class will likely be moved from 4 pm to another time that works better
for everyone.  Please contact me if you have any questions.

Dr. Dan Rodier
Colorado Space Grant College
Engineering Center, Rm. ME0-12
2-3299
rodier@rodin.colorado.edu