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Jarrett Cohen (GST, Inc.) is now Information Officer for NASA's High-End Computing Program, which manages the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames Research Center and the NASA Center for Computational Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center.
As Information Officer and Senior Science Writer for NASA's Computational Technologies (CT) Project, Cohen employed a variety of media to increase public understanding of computational science's role in advancing the Earth and space sciences.
One method was the project's World Wide Web site, containing research summaries, links to funded investigators' sites, software, and other material.
Articles and news releases about CT Project R&D and outreach activities regularly appeared in NASA newsletters, trade publications, and national newspapers and magazines. A highlight was a story about petaFLOPS (1,000 trillion calculations per second) computing published in Wired. Several posters conveyed the connections between modeling systems as well as model results.
Communicating more than words can alone, scientific visualizations of supercomputer data reach an international audience through videos. "Images of Earth and Space: SC97 Edition" received an Award of Excellence in the Society for Technical Communication's 1998 International Technical Video Competition. Visualizations from this tape and other productions have been used by television (CNN, NBC4-Washington, the Discovery Channel, PBS), educators (K-12, colleges and universities), museums and planetaria, scientists, and the general public.
Staff also produced documentary-style videotapes to explain computational science. The most recent production, "Behold, A Whirlwind Came: The Science of Tracking Hurricanes," played at the Maryland Science Center for over a year as well as at several NASA visitor centers. This video won a prestigious Award of Excellence (the top category) in The Communicator Awards 2005 Video Competition as well as a Bronze Telly (the second highest award) in the 27th Annual Telly Awards. An earlier documentary, the "Journeys through Earth and Space" video magazine, won a Crystal Award of Distinction in The Communicator Awards 2001 Video Competition.
Formal reports described accomplishments at the end of each fiscal year and award cycle. Cohen edited and designed six Annual Reports as well as the Science Team I Final Report.
Cohen holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism (Honors) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
You can reach him by your preferred method of the following:
Jarrett Cohen
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
(301) 286-2744
(301) 286-1634 fax
Jarrett.S.Cohen at nasa.gov
