NASA Daily News Summary For Release: August 1, 2000 Media Advisory m00-146 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION PACKS A ONE-TWO PUNCH VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 1, 2000 UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ***************************** NEWS RELEASES PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION PACKS A ONE-TWO PUNCH The Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of the world's seven oceans, suffers periodic mood swings that have a dramatic impact on our weather. These mood swings are a climate phenomenon known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO. It's an El Nino-like shift in the ocean's temperature that scientists once thought cycled every 15 to 20 years. However, there's new NASA research that now shows there may be a second, much longer, PDO pattern that lasts about 70 years. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David E. Steitz (Phone: 202/358-1730) Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: Rosemary Sullivan (Phone: 818/354-0474) For full text, see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-121.txt ---------------------------- If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e- mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list. Index of 2000 NASA News Releases: http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html Index of 1999 NASA News Releases: http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html ***************************** VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 1, 2000 ITEM 1 - STS-106 MISSION ANIMATION AND B-ROLL - JSC ITEM 2 - PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION - JPL ITEM 3 - SEAWIFS: VIEW OF SMOKE FROM FIRES OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES - GSFC (REPLAY) ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY. The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm and midnight Eastern Time. ----------------------------- UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS August 1, Tuesday STS-106 Preflight Briefings - 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. - STS-106 Mission Overview - 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - International Space Station Science Payload Briefing - JSC - 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - STS-106 EVA Briefing - JSC - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. - STS-106 Crew News Conference - JSC August 2, Wednesday - 6:00 - 9:30 - GOES: A Day in the Life of North America Live News Interviews - GSFC - 9:30 - 11:00 - GOES: A Day in the Life of North America Live News Interviews - TBD (will be carried on a to be determined commercial satellite) - 10:00 a.m. - Noon - Expedition One Mission Overview - JSC - 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Expedition One Crew News Conference - JSC August 3, Thursday - 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Minority Students Get Head Start from JPL Live News Interviews - JPL For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html ----------------------------- Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz. Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown, 202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will continue to be posted at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html For general information about NASA TV see: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ ***************************** Contract Awards Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html ***************************** The NASA Daily News Summary is issued each business day at approximately 2 pm Eastern time. Members of the media who wish to subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail message to: Brian.Dunbar@hq.nasa.gov ***************************** end of daily news summary