Pete Arvedson California Science Conference October 25, 2013 Hosted by Satellite Educators Association Lesson plan development supported by a grant from NOAA-CREST West

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 2 A Little History… Fishing via Satellite lesson plan by Karen Roshong ~ 1991 Published in Lessons from the Sky

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 3 Session Objectives Explain fish behavior related to changes in water temperature Access satellite-based sea surface temperature data Visualize, Analyze, Interpret data Hypothesize fish locations based on analysis

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 4 Ocean Fish Behavior Changes in marine ecosystems have patterns… Including temperature variations Seasonal Diurnal Ocean fish metabolism is environmently dependent Fish respond to changes in… Oxygen availability Food supply Temperature

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Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 8 Satellites > 24,500 objects are in Earth orbit ~ 560 operational satellites Many are Earth looking Weather satellites Geostationary (GOES) Polar orbiting POES JPSS

Solar radiation reaches Earth surface Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 9

Surface features reflect solar radiation to remote sensors Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 10

Satellite sends radio signal from remote sensors to Earth station Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 11

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 12 AVHRR Weather satellites 1981 – 2002 MODIS on Terra & Aqua since

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 13 SEA Surface Temperature Data Received by NOAA Processed to Level 1-4… Used for research and… Archived by NOAA NODC & NASA PO.DAAC NASA PO.DAAC

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center – Live Access Server Finding Fish Using Satellites - 14

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Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 21 Extension Activities Access ocean topography image, same data – compare Use same technique to predict different fish caught from different port Devise a plan to ground-truth the satellite-based SST Find & process a MODIS image for SST Devise a plan for determining in which season coastal eddy currents and upwelling are most common Explore linear relationship between SST and pixel brightness value in Level 3 data

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 22 CA Science Content Standards Grade 6: Ecology – 5. Organisms in ecosystems exchange energy and nutrients among themselves and with the environment. (e) Grade 6: Investigation and Experimentation – 1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conduction careful investigations. (b, c) Grades 9-12: Biology/Life Science - 6. Stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects. (a, b, c) Grades 9-12: Investigations and Experimentation – 1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. (a, i)

Satellite Educators AssociationCalifornia Science Conference 2013 Finding Fish Using Satellites - 23 Contact Information Pete Arvedson - Check out lesson plans in Satellite Educators Association (SEA) monthly Newsletter… More opportunities to involve students doing research: SEAs M.Y. S.P.A.C.E.* Program - an international high school collaborative environmental research program using satellite-based data… * (Multinational Youth Studying Practical Applications of Climatic Events)