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The JPL Public Service Office, in conjunction with the AIRS Project, invites all JPL personnel and members of the AIRS family to attend a Lab-wide celebration of AIRS' 10th Anniversary on Monday, April 23rd, from 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. in von Kármán Auditorium.


Please join us in celebrating 10 years of extraordinary technological and scientific achievements as AIRS continues on its journey to, in the words of founding father and first Science Team Leader Dr. Mous Chahine, "Always Make Progress."

AIRS "10 Years in Space"

Anniversary Celebration

AIRS 10 Year Anniversary Event Agenda

Monday April 23, 2012

8:00 am-10:00 am

von Karman Auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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8:00-8:25: Socializing

Refreshments (coffee, bagels, fruit, juice)


8:25-8:30: Aqua/AIRS Science Video featuring Dr. Moustafa Chahine


8:30-9:20: Presentations:


Welcome and Introduction

Tom Pagano, AIRS Project Manager


Opening Remarks and Congratulations

Charles Elachi, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory


NASA Headquarters Perspective

Ramesh Kakar, Aqua Program Scientist


NOAA Perspective

Robert Atlas, Director of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory


JPL Earth Science and Technology Directorate Perspective

Tony Freeman, Earth System Science Formulation Program Manager


AIRS Science Highlights

Eric Fetzer, AIRS Project Scientist


AIRS Weather and Climate: Near Term & Future Plans

Joao Teixeira, AIRS Science Team Leader


Closing Remarks

Tom Pagano, AIRS Project Manager


9:20 - 9:30: Pass The Microphone: Memories from Attendees


9:30-10:00 Socializing

Cake

Slide Show, courtesy of former AIRS Project Manager Fred O'Callaghan