JASON EXPEDITION BROADCAST EVENT - LIVE on CET!

DATES: Monday, January 30 through Friday, February 3
TIMES: 10am - 11:30am and 1pm - 2:30pm
WHERE: CET's Time Warner Cable channels 18 and 931

CET Learning Services invites you to tune in each day for a live broadcast, hosted by noted explorer Bob Ballard, discoverer of the RMS Titanic and founder and president of the Institute for Exploration at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday's programs feature segments from the big island of Hawaii - with Dr. Vicky Hamilton on spectroscopy and soils, and from Mono Lake, California with Dr. Jack Farmer on calcium carbonate towers called "tufas" (a union of geology and biology formed when fresh water springs meet a super salty lake) and the extreme ecosystem that lives on tufas.

On Thursday and Friday, Kobie Boykins challenges student Argonauts to pilot a Mars Exploration Rover under simulated conditions, test Newton's Laws by launching water rockets, and assemble motorized joints like those used in the moon rover. Segments with Dr. Jim Garvin from Meteor Crater in Arizone study the most famous impact crater on Earth and compare it to similar craters on Mars, and work with NASA engineers to test two experimental rovers.

The JASON Expedition broadcast event is a way to bring all of the curriculum components together. The live broadcast features JASON Expedition host researchers and Student and Teacher Argonauts on location at the research site, exploring the science content in a field setting. Thousands of students are able to participate as the Expedition is happening, through satellite and distance-learning technologies.

Email Diane Smile or contact her by phone at (513) 345-6545 if you have questions about the broadcast. The live broadcast is part of the JASON Mysteries of Earth and Mars Expedition. To take part in the entire JASON experience, contact Meri Johnson at the Clermont County ESCU at (513) 735-8216 or visit the JASON national website.