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| 2012-02-01 08:17:28 |
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Heliophysics-Space Weather)
The importance of space weather has been recognized both nationally and globally. Our society depends increasingly on technological infrastructure, including the power grid as well as satellites used for communication and navigation. Such technologies, however, are vulnerable to space weather effects caused by the Sun's variability.
NASA GSFC's Space Weather Center (SWC) (http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov//674/swx_services/swx_services.html) has developed space weather products/capabilities/services that not only respond to NASA's needs but also address broader interests by leveraging the latest scientific research results and state-of-the-art models hosted at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov).
This is an opportunity for highly-motivated and qualified high school students to learn the basic science of space weather and to gain first-hand experience of how scientists/forecasters at NASA/GSFC Space Weather Center carry out analyses needed to predict space weather events and safeguard NASA's assets as well as society's interests at large.
Three interested students will be selected for this opportunity. After basic training in space weather science and operational procedures, along with mock-up space weather event analysis, they will be encouraged to work as a group to carry out the functions/duties of a space weather forecaster. It is our intention to foster their interest/involvement in research related to space weather.
Expected opportunity outcome: an independent space weather forecaster; knowledge about the solar system and impact of the solar storms on the earth's environment and society; interested in further pursuing space weather related scientific research; the decision-making skills and knowledge acquired during the program will be beneficial to any future career pursuit.
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| 2012-02-01 10:28:56 |
- (Computer & Information Sciences)
- (Engineering)
The Intern will support the Software Process Improvement (SPI) Team in process workflow development to create software development processes and procedures, which comply with NASA Procedural Requirement 7150.2A, Goddard Procedural Requirements, and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) requirements, using the Software Developer’s Assistant (SDA) tool.
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| 2012-02-01 11:42:13 |
- (Computer & Information Sciences - Information Systems-Data Analysis SW)
- (Computer & Information Sciences - Computer Science-Vision)
This project explores an inverse modeling methodology using a biophysical model forced by observed satellite and climate data to quantify the irrigation water demand in semi-arid areas. We constrain the carbon and water cycles modeled under both equilibrium, balance between vegetation density and prevailing local climate and non-equilibrium, water added to irrigation, conditions. We postulate that the degree to which irrigated dry lands vary from equilibrium climate conditions is related to the amount of irrigation water used. The amount of water required over and above precipitation, if any, is considered as the minimum physiological water requirement.
The method estimates both the minimum physiological amount of water required to sustain unstressed photosynthetic production for crops and the total used for irrigation including agricultural efficiencies and losses. To calibrate and validate the approach, we need physiological parameters to characterize the different (major) crops.
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| 2012-02-01 11:48:17 |
- (Engineering - Thermal-Radiative & Conductive Heat Transfer)
- (Engineering - Mechanical-Design)
Increase thermal analysis capability in group by learning a new thermal analysis software and teaching the application of this software to the group as it applies to analyzing electrical/mechanical subsystems such as the spacecraft computer (command and data handling), power system electronics, GPS system or reaction wheel assembly system.
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| 2012-02-01 11:54:20 |
- (Engineering - Computer-Hardware Design)
- (Computer & Information Sciences - High Performance Computing)
StarCamp is a 10-week summer engineering apprenticeship program at Goddard Space Flight Center for students of all levels to come together as teams to address projects of interest to NASA. Student teams will be coached by an experienced project manager and mentored by NASA experts from all areas applicable to the project at hand. Project concepts are initially discussed and students are guided to create requirements and develop a plan for implementation with milestones and deliverables. Weekly meetings address the progress of the project and correct the development path as appropriate to meet the project goals. The main objective is to provide students with an opportunity to work as a team in a professional environment while creating engineering solutions that will be used by NASA.
The StarCamp engages a team of high school students in documenting the projects with photographs and video recording, and preparing slide presentations and posters to showcase the projects. The StarCamp also requires website development and content management as well as online social networking coordination. Students applying for this position shall be familiar with the technologies used for media production, website creation, and online social networking, as well as project presentation tools such as PowerPoint.
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| 2012-02-01 13:23:59 |
- (Communications - Public)
- (Space Science (Astronomy))
The Digital Media Intern will develop original content about SED's varied of space science and Earth-monitoring missions and research projects. The intern will work closely with the SED website Editor-in-Chief and Science Writer to create any of the following products: --Web features and featured images for the SED home page (science.gsfc.nasa.gov). --Short articles, videos, audio podcasts, and twitter updates for SED's Geeked On Goddard blog (geeked.gsfc.nasa.gov). Interns with HTML and website building skills will have the opportunity to develop their own content into web pages for publication.
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| 2012-02-02 12:05:17 |
- (Engineering - Mechanical-Design)
- (Engineering - Integraton & Test-Vibration & Dynamics Testing)
Increase fatigue analysis capability in group by aiding in determining a simple method for evaluating the fatigue stress of electronic components. Learn how to operate vibration control system (simulates rocket launch environment) to perform failure testing on several electronic component styles. Learn simple, principles of the finite element method and fatigue analysis and apply them to build simple finite element analysis models (with help from mentor). Provide results of testing and simplified hand calculation that will predict if a component should fail when exposed to various levels of loading.
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| 2012-02-02 15:50:50 |
- (Engineering)
- (Engineering - Propulsion-Spacecraft Maneuvers)
The student will join the propulsion branch at NASA Goddard which designs, builds, tests, and operates spacecraft propulsion systems. The primary project for the summer student is the development of a propulsion branch wiki (information site). This project involves working with a number of engineers to collect and review current design tools used in the propulsion branch. The work also includes investigating and collecting information regarding propulsion component specifications as well as vendor information. The student will also comb historical propulsion resource documents to be included in the wiki. The summer student will also have the potential to work alongside some engineers in the clean room, assisting with the integration and test of the current systems being built at Goddard.
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| 2012-02-03 13:01:56 |
The Intern will assist the senior photographers in the Technical Information and Management Services Branch (TIMS) to provide photographic support and other duties. The following photography assignments will be performed: (1) Document the outside of each buildings on-site, (2) Document summer interns at their work sites, and (3) Archive CD's and pull images as requested by the photographers. Depending on project schedules, the Intern will accompany the senior photographers and assist in covering a broad ranges of photo shoots including ceremonies and Center events, building documentation, portraits, passport photos, and videography.
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| 2012-02-06 15:08:50 |
- (Computer & Information Sciences - Computer Science-Modeling and Simulation)
- (Computer & Information Sciences - Computer Science-Real-time Systems)
The Mission Planning Lab (MPL) provides a collaborative visualization and analysis tool that allows realistic
simulation, presentation and evaluation of platform selection, flight profiles, and range asset placement.
By integrating detailed information on vehicle capabilities, range capabilities, and mission specific objectives,
MPL meets several critical current needs for the Wallops Research Range.
A pre and post-flight mission tool, MPL visualizes, analyzes, and optimized mission specifications based on vehicle
characteristics, range setup, and performance to support missions and assess alternatives with: Visibility, Feasibility, Variability and Certainty. MPL website: http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/mpl/
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