Scientific Presentations and Conferences

Photographs featuring speakers at NOAA events, with a focus on scientific discussions and presentations, set against official backdrops.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

Technology Administration - 2004 National Medal of Technology Laureates

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Winners of the Dr. Kurt H. Debus Award attending the 2003 awards dinner are (from left) Lee Solid, Robert B. Sieck, Adrian Laffitte, Roy D. Bridges, and Dr. Maxwell King. Laffitte, director of Atlas Programs for Lockheed Martin Astronautics at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, was honored as the winner of the 2003 Dr. Kurt H. Debus Award from the National Space Club Florida Committee. The Debus Award was created by the committee to recognize significant achievements and contributions made in Florida to American aerospace efforts.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - MARINE ACOUSTICS LECTURE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses scientists and support staff at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on November 11, 2016, following a helicopter tour of U.S. research facilities around Ross Island and the Ross Sea in an effort to learn about the effects of climate change on the Continent.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Past recipients of the Debus Award join the 2004 awardee John J. Tip” Talone (center) at the annual National Space Club Debus Award Banquet, held at the Dr. Kurt H. Debus Conference Facility in the KSC Visitor Complex. From left are Forrest McCartney, Lee Solid, Maxwell King, Talone, Bob Sieck, Ernie Briel and Adrian Laffitte. Director of the International Space Station/Payloads Processing directorate, Talone received the award in recognition of his outstanding personal and professional efforts in supporting the U.S. space program, especially in his current role. The award was created by the National Space Club Florida Committee to recognize significant achievements and contributions made in Florida to American aerospace efforts. It is named for Dr. Kurt H. Debus, first director of KSC, from 1962 to 1974.

Bureau of Industry and Security - Bureau of Industry Speaker Series Dr. William Jeffrey, Director, National Institute and Standards and Technology (NIST)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

Former space shuttle launch director Bob Sieck, right, receives a Lessons Learned Award from Apollo Challenger Columbia Lessons Learned Program (ACCLLP) Manager Mike Ciannilli in Kennedy Space Centers Training Auditorium on April 12, 2019. Sieck participated in a discussion during “Columbia: The Mission Continues,” an event organized by the ACCLLP. The event is part of the Space Shuttle Columbia national tour and took place on the 38th anniversary of STS-1, the first orbital spaceflight of NASAs Space Shuttle Program. The tour launched at Kennedy and will make its way to each of the 10 NASA centers.

The Orion team visits United Launch Alliance in Denver, Colorado on July 14, 2015 to recognize their efforts in making Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) a success. Orion program manager, Mark Geyer, is at podium. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine gives keynote remarks at the Humans to Mars Summit, Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.

Secretary Gale Norton, front left, viewing U.S. Geological Survey exhibit at fire plan conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Norton announced Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture-sponsored National Fire Plan Award winners recognized for efforts to protect public lands and wildlife

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA REMEMBERS

Technology Administration - 2004 National Medal of Technology Laureates

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left) presents the Ambassador of Exploration Award (an encased moon rock) to Biloxi native and Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise Jr. (right) for his contributions to space exploration. During a Dec. 2 ceremony at Gorenflo elementary School in Biloxi, Miss., Bolden praised Haise for his overall space career and his performance on the Apollo 13 mission that was crippled two days after launch. Haise and fellow crewmembers nursed the spacecraft on a perilous trip back to Earth. 'The historic Apollo 13 mission was as dramatic as any Hollywood production,' Bolden said. 'When an explosion crippled his command module, Fred and his crewmates, Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert, guided their spacecraft around the moon and back to a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean - all while the world held its breath. While Fred didn't have the chance to walk on the moon, the cool courage and concentration in the face of crisis is among NASA's most enduring legacies.'

Marcus Eriksen at the 15th Anniversary Celebration of Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which is dedicated to the protection of the marine environment and its watersheds through research, education, and restoration. May 1, 2010, Long Beach, California, USA

Members of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team are pictured with the Collier Trophy during the Robert J. Collier Dinner in Washington on June 9, 2022. The team was awarded the 2021 Collier Trophy for the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of Mars and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration, the award citation states. This historic trophy - which is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington - is awarded annually by the National Aeronautic Association for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year.

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - EARTH OBSERVATION DAY

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Tweetup participants ask questions during prelaunch activities for NASAs Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Participants toured NASAs Kennedy Space Center and got a close-up view of Space Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The tweeters will share their experiences with followers through the social networking site Twitter.GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moons gravitational field. The mission will provide the most accurate global gravity field to date for any planet, including Earth. This detailed information will reveal differences in the density of the moons crust and mantle and will help answer fundamental questions about the moons internal structure, thermal evolution, and history of collisions with asteroids. The aim is to map the moons gravity field so completely that future lunar ve

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Students listen to remarks at the opening of this year's NASA MarsPort Engineering Design Student Competition 2002 conference at the KSC Visitor Complex, organized by the Florida Space Grant Consortium. Students and faculty from the nation's universities converged at Kennedy for the MarsPort Competition, presenting papers on engineering trade studies to design optimal configurations for a MarsPort Deployable Greenhouse for operation on the surface of Mars. Judges in the competition were from KSC, Dynamac Corporation and Florida Institute of Technology. The winning team's innovative ideas will be used by NASA to evaluate and study other engineering trade concepts. Also featured at the opening ceremony were Dr. Sam Durrance, FSGC director and former astronaut, and Dr. Gary Stutte, plant scientist, Dynamac Corporation.

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne leading press conference, at Main Interior, on release of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment estimating the existence of 85.4 trilion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaska North Slope. Secretary Kempthorne, joined by USGS Director Mark Myers, indicated that the USGS assessment was the first-ever resource estimate of technically recoverable natural gas hydrates, which are naturally occurring, ice-like solids in which water molecules trap natural gas molecules in a cage-like structure known as a clathrate.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut Ed Gibson acknowledges the warm response to his introduction as a previous inductee into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. He and other Hall of Fame members were present for the induction of five new space program heroes into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame: Richard O. Covey, commander of the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission; Norman E. Thagard, the first American to occupy Russias Mir space station; the late Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, commander of the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission; Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; and Frederick D. Gregory, the first African-American to command a space mission and the current NASA deputy administrator. Gibson orbited the Earth for 84 days during the final manned flight of the Skylab Space Station in 1973 and 1974. The induction ceremony was held at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at KSC. The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 to provide a place where space trav

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, new inductee Gordon Fullerton (left) is congratulated by Chairman Owen Garriott. At right is Hall of Famer Fred Haise. Other Hall of Famers are gathered on stage for the ceremony, which is being held in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complexs Apollo_Saturn V Center. Recognized for their individual flight accomplishments and contributions to the success and future success of the U.S. space program, this elite group of inductees is among only 60 astronauts to be honored in the Hall of Fame and the fourth group of Space Shuttle astronauts named.

Professor Patricia Burchat, Chair of the Physics Department at Stanford University presents a Director's Colloquium entitled 'The Dark Side of the Universe'. A video of the presentation is currently available at the NASA Ames Library.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - SCIENCE DAY 2004

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

NASA and DARPA Collaboration on Rocket Propulsion Technology Announcement . Steve Howe, former director of the Center for Space Nuclear Research at the Idaho National Laboratory, left, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, center, and Stefanie Tompkins, director of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), right, are seen during a fireside chat announcing a new collaboration on nuclear thermal propulsion at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will partner on the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations, or DRACO, project to develop and demonstrate in-space a nuclear thermal engine.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

Astronaut Hall of Fame 2023. Roy D. Bridges Jr. is inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame (AHOF) by Hall of Fame astronaut Dave Leestma during a ceremony inside the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction at NASAs Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on May 6, 2023. Also inducted into the AHOF Class of 2023 was retired astronaut Mark Kelly. Inductees into the Hall of Fame are selected by a committee of Hall of Fame astronauts, former NASA officials, flight directors, historians and journalists. The process is administered by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. To be eligible, an astronaut must have made his or her first flight at least 17 years before the induction. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen and a NASA-trained commander, pilot, or mission specialist who has orbited the earth at least once. Including Bridges and Kelly, 107 astronauts have been inducted into the AHOF.

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in heliophysics and S. Chandrasekhar distinguished service professor emeritus for the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, watches the launch of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. This is the first agency mission named for a living person. The liftoff took place at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. The spacecraft was built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Associate Administrator of Space Operations Mission Directorate William F. Readdy (left) publicly praises the outstanding customer service provided by Virginia Whitehead upon her receipt of a One NASA Peer Award. The award was presented in the Press Site Auditorium following the NASA Update by Administrator Sean OKeefe. The award is given to recognize employees who have demonstrated behaviors consistent with the spirit of One NASA and are called Peer Awards because candidates must be nominated by their peers.

Nuclear Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022 Conference

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut Al Worden talks to members of the diplomatic corps, who toured various facilities around Kennedy. The visit, one of the largest tours undertaken by the diplomatic corps, is part of the State Department's new Experience America program. The international dignitaries were provided an overview of the United States' space exploration programs and NASA's international cooperation in pursuit of exploration and scientific discovery. They visited various locations at Kennedy, including the Space Station Processing Facility and Launch Pad 39A where space shuttle Atlantis is being prepared for its upcoming mission to the International Space Station.

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Mark Trail Reception

The Orion team gathers at Space Center Houston on May 20, 2015 to celebrate their accomplishments on Orion's first flight, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

Technology Administration - 2004 National Medal of Technology Laureates

Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin gives remarks prior to the screening of the NASA produced documentary The Color of Space” at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium in Washington, Saturday, June 18, 2022. Premiering on Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, The Color of Space” is an inspirational documentary that tells the stories of NASA’s Black astronauts determined to reach the stars.

Office of the Secretary - National Science and Technology Medals

Technology Administration - 2004 National Medal of Technology Laureates

Astrobiology Institute 1st conference

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

Derrick Tuff, right in wheelchair, and Kayla Weathers, standing left, deliver remarks at a ceremony where senior NASA officials presented the National Federation of the Blind with two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars that flew on Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission (STS-125) to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009, Friday evening, July 31, 2009, at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington. Man standing at center is unidentified.

Working Capital Fund - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Conference on Ocean Literacy

Goddard employees were invited to a town hall with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, Associate Administrator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen and Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese, Nov. 2, at 11 30 a.m. in the Hinners Auditorium in Building 8. Bolden thanked the James Webb Space Telescope team at Goddard as well as our international and corporate partners for their exceptional support.

Working Capital Fund - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Conference on Ocean Literacy

The winner of the high school portion of the Exploration Design Challenge is announced at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington on April 25, 2014. Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer presents award. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Closing NASA's 40th Anniversary of Apollo Celebration at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Center Director Bob Cabana thanks the Apollo astronauts who participated. Seen here (from left) are Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell, Walt Cunningham and Buzz Aldrin. The celebration honored the July 1969 launch and landing on the moon.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA STAKE HOLDER FORUM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honeycutt, left, and Bob Crippen, right, talk during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

Technology Administration - NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the grand opening of the newly expanded KSC Visitor Complex, Center Director Roy Bridges presents Deep Space Nine star Avery Brooks with a plaque, recognizing his contribution to advancing the public's understanding of NASA and the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Brooks narrates the new film Quest for Life at the Visitor Center. The $ 13 million addition to the Visitor Complex now includes an International Space Station-themed ticket plaza, featuring a structure of overhanging solar panels and astronauts performing assembly tasks, a new information center, films, and exhibits. The KSC Visitor Complex was inaugurated three decades ago and is now one of the top five tourist attractions in Florida. It is located on S.R. 407, east of I-95, within the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

Sen. John Glenn, right, talks during a NASA Future Forum panel discussion at The Ohio State University as NASA Associate Administrator for Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld, left, and Ohio State University Graduate Research Associate Vijay Gadepally look on, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. Monday marked the 50th anniversary of Glenn's historic flight as the first American to orbit Earth.

Secretary Gale Norton attending Department of Interior headquarters, Washington, D.C. ceremony marking the naming of Columbia Point, a 13,980-feet peak in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in honor of the Space Shuttle Columbia's last voyage

Nuclear Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022 Conference

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NATIONAL STUDENT SUMMIT ON OCEAN ISSUES

Robert Lightfoot presents NASA Distinguished Service Medal to Patrick Scheuermann

Working Capital Fund - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Conference on Ocean Literacy

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Mark Trail Reception

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

Office of the Secretary - National Science and Technology Medals

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA REMEMBERS

Technology Administration - 2002 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAUREATES RECEPTION

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signs an agreement defining the terms of cooperation between NASA and JAXA on the Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission. The ceremony took place July 30 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Fla. Through the agreement, NASA is responsible for the GPM core observatory spacecraft bus, the GPM Microwave Imager, or GMI, carried by it, and a second GMI to be flown on a partner-provided Low-Inclination Observatory. JAXA will supply the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar for the core observatory, an H-IIA rocket for the core observatory's launch in July 2013, and data from a conical-scanning microwave imager on the upcoming Global Change Observation Mission satellite.

Mark Riccobono, executive director of the Jernigan Institute of the National Federation of the Blind, right, accepts an award from Dr. Joyce Winterton, Assistant Administrator, Office of Education, NASA Headquarters, center, and Ken Silberman, from Goddard Space Flight Center, at a ceremony where senior NASA officials presented the NFB with two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars that flew on Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission (STS-125) to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009, Friday evening, July 31, 2009, at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington.

NASA 50th Anniversary Gala Celebration - Ohio Astronaut Reunion

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

Technology Administration - 2004 National Medal of Technology Laureates

Nuclear Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022 Conference

NASAs Moon to Mars Architecture Workshop. Nujoud Merancy, architecture lead for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, left, and Catherine Koerner, deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, are seen during NASAs Moon to Mars Architecture Workshop, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Following the release of the 2022 Architecture Concept Review, NASA is conducting the workshop to engage the broader space community and collect feedback from U.S. industry and academia to inform the Moon to Mars mission architecture and operational delivery.

Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California

Office of the Secretary - National Science and Technology Medals

Technology Administration - 2004 National Medal of Technology Laureates

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine delivers remarks introducing Vice President Mike Pence during the opening ceremony of the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE MOTIGATING VOLCANIC ASH HAZARDS TO AVIATION

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