High "IMPACT" STEREO EPO: Exploiting Opportunities for High Visibility Activities On a Shoestring

Our dynamic Sun offers exciting opportunities to share research discoveries of NASA's Sun Earth Connection Missions for the pre-college education and public outreach communities. NASA's STEREO/IMPACT Mission E/PO seeks to offer national programs for broad audiences that highlight the Mission's solar and geo-space activities. The partnership between the Mission scientist and the Mission E/PO is essential to fully reap the fruits of this rich education and public outreach effort. We will share two events, a high visibility, successful Eclipse 2001 participation and a new project - an exciting prototype program converting the science results of solar energetic particle data to sound, and ultimately to create a composition inspired by these sounds and related solar images by a musician. Data from an earlier twin-spacecraft Mission, Helios1/2 (courtesy of D. Reames, GSFC and the Helios mission investigators) are used as a testbed for creating the stereo sounds from the future STEREO data. We hope these efforts will lead to a recording by an ensemble as well. We will discuss lessons learned and future opportunities for scientist participation.