On August 29-30, 2006, Dr. David Brooks conducted a training session for sun photometry and UV radiometry at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This session was organized by NASA's Aura project office for GSFC's Aerospace Education Specialists, a team that works with schools, and especially NASA Explorer Schools, throughout the country. Aura, managed by GSFC, is the third in a series of three spacecraft that are now investigating the Earth/atmosphere system from space. Aura funded Dr Brooks' development of a UV-A radiometer suitable for student use. This inexpensive instrument can be used to provide ground validation that supports data products produced by Aura instruments such as the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) whose data are used to infer UV radiation at Earth's surface.

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