Date: March 11th 2008

March 10, 2008

Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen e cole@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-056

MEDIA INVITED TO NASA CO-SPONSORED 'POLAR-PALOOZA' TOUR

WASHINGTON - "Polar-Palooza: Stories from a Changing Planet," an education initiative supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF), comes to the National Geographic Society in Washington on March 13 as part of a national tour of science centers and museums

Polar-Palooza is a multimedia presentation featuring original high-definition video clips, polar artifacts, soundscapes and photographs - along with engaging stories from some of the country's leading polar experts - designed to explain to a general audience the effects on the polar regions of global climate changes

The news media are invited to attend the March 13 event, which begins at 7:30 p m EDT, at the National Geographic building, 1600 M Street, NW Polar scientists participating in this event will be available for interviews at the National Geographic building between noon and 2 p m on March 13 Reporters also can observe a Polar-Palooza student workshop that morning

The Polar-Palooza event, a presentation of the "National Geographic Live!" lecture series, features Waleed Abdalati of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md ; Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University; Jackie Richter-Menge, a sea ice researcher with the Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Richard Glenn, a geologist, whaler and vice president of the Alaskan Native-owned Lands at the Arctic Slope Regional Corp ; Michael Castellini of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; and Andy Revkin, environmental reporter with the New York Times

NASA and NSF are funding Polar-Palooza as part of their contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008, a global scientific campaign involving scientists from more than 60 nations For more information about IPY activities on the Web, visit:

http://www ipy gov

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