NASA DEVELOP National Program
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DEVELOP is a training and development program sponsored by NASA's Earth Sciences Applied Sciences Program. Headquartered at NASA Langley Research Center, DEVELOP has teams at nine locations around the country, and one in Mexico. Participants work with advisors and mentors to learn about the application of NASA Earth Science and remote sensing during three 10-week terms.
DEVELOP is based in the Earth Science Mission, which has the goal to "Develop a scientific understanding of Earth’s system and its response to natural or human-induced changes, and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards." With a unique focus on community concerns, DEVELOP offers participants the chance to work with remote sensing to research real-world problems.
, Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center
, Stennis Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center
, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
. Four are at regional US locations - Mobile County Health Department in Mobile, AL, Wise County Clerk of Court Office in Wise, VA, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative in Chicago, IL. There are also two leveraged academic institutions - one in St. Louis, MO, at Saint Louis University, and the other located in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey Tech). Each team location varies in size and participant educational background.
DEVELOP is based in the Earth Science Mission, which has the goal to "Develop a scientific understanding of Earth’s system and its response to natural or human-induced changes, and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards." With a unique focus on community concerns, DEVELOP offers participants the chance to work with remote sensing to research real-world problems.
History of DEVELOP
In 1998, two students participating in the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) Program and one student participating in the Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP) at NASA Langley Research Center co-authored the white paper Practical Applications of Remote Sensing (Bauer et al., 1998). At that time, the Digital Earth Initiative, a federal inter-agency project dedicated to creating a virtual representation of the Earth to further human understanding of the world, was piloting an effort to increase public access to federal information about the Earth and the environment. A proposal combining NASA’s Digital Earth Initiative and the students’ paper advocated the formation of a student program, and in 1999 DEVELOP was formed.Team Locations
DEVELOP teams are located across the United States and into Mexico. Six US locations are association with NASA centers - Langley Research CenterLangley Research Center
Langley Research Center is the oldest of NASA's field centers, located in Hampton, Virginia, United States. It directly borders Poquoson, Virginia and Langley Air Force Base...
, Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. GSFC,...
, Stennis Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest center of NASA, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program...
, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...
. Four are at regional US locations - Mobile County Health Department in Mobile, AL, Wise County Clerk of Court Office in Wise, VA, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative in Chicago, IL. There are also two leveraged academic institutions - one in St. Louis, MO, at Saint Louis University, and the other located in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey Tech). Each team location varies in size and participant educational background.