NASA History Listserv Readers:
For locals, please join us in person tomorrow for a brown bag talk by Dr. Jim Acker of Goddard Space Flight Center, “Rise of the Machines:
Computational Power and The History of NASA’s Ocean Color Missions,” in the Program Review Center (room 9H40) at HQ from noon to 1 pm.
He will discuss how the first NASA “ocean color” mission (remote sensing of biological activity) was launched in 1978, when available
computing resources were quite minimal. Major advances in computational power enabled the daily creation of global ocean color data products, and then allowed scientists to work with large volumes of data and complex algorithms on their own computer systems.
From this humble start with the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) on the Nimbus 7 spacecraft, ocean color research has come a long way, lending remarkable insights into the large-scale biological processes in the world’s oceans.
Please contact Nadine Andreassen (202-358-0087,
nadine.j.andreassen@nasa.gov) for admission to the building if you are not a NASA employee.
See you there! Thanks,
Steve
Stephen Garber
NASA History Division
Office of Communications
NASA Headquarters
Room 5P25
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
http://history.nasa.gov
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