The vision and energy Tom Grimm/World Quest provided to NASA-ESE in promoting the use of ESE Terra imagery at the Olympics. Six months ago, Tom presented the concept of this outreach activity. Without Tom's help many of the activities described above would not have happened.

Wade Sisler of Goddard PAO

Mark Eubank, Chief Forecaster for KSL/TV, has also been very helpful and has run NASA visualizations on television here in the Ogden/Salt Lake/Provo area.

Sponsor

Wade Sisler of Goddard PAO has shown great foresight in working with the Goddard SVS to prepare the fabulous NASA Zooms to Utah and promoting their use with network TV. These zooms could give NASA the best Earth Science outreach exposure in history.

David Harrison of ESE./ESTO at Goddard has also shown vision and courage to procure two 16 foot Terra/MODIS globes for the Olympics. This helped give TCMU the confidence to go forward with the Olympic exhibit.

E-Theater Promotion/Sponsorship

Professor Ed Zipser, University of Utah, Meteorology Department Head was instrumental in assisting me with justification for the Utah assignment and invited me to give the Etheater and colloquium presentations at the University.

Professor David Long, Director of the Center for Remote Sensing, at BYU was also essential in helping manifest the Utah work assignment and the invitation to give an Etheater presentation at the University and work with their Film Department in making an Earth Science Video.

D.D. Hilke, Executive Director of TCMU has shown great vision and courage to set up the "Walk'in On The World" Exhibit on an extremely short time-line.

Data

NASA

NOAA

DOD

Mark Brender & his colleagues at Space Imaging Inc. have been instrumental in getting us the updated IKONOS images necessary on a very tight schedule to give the Utah Zooms great appeal and immediacy.

Visualization

Reto Stockli of the Goddard Earth Observatory and Visualization and Analysis Laboratory has worked tirelessly for many months to bring us the highest quality ever global image of our planet using Terra/MODIS data.

Rob Simmon

Goddard SVS