waggoner, associate director for earth action within our earth sciences division. we have some exciting thing to discuss with you today. we will announce a new airborne science mission, new elements in our earth science strategy, as well as a new visualization from our mission, pace, plankton, aerosol, cloud, ocean ecosystem. first, administrator nelson will give us more information about what we are here for today. >> as you know, we are a climate agency in addition to being a space agency, aeronautical research agency, and that is because we have these two dozen instruments and satellites on orbit that look at the earth, look at it, bring us data real-time within a matter of seconds that it takes the transmission from the satellites back to earth. we have all put together this earth information center to try and bring this information to the public. not only in a physical structure such as here at nasa headquarters, but also at one of these smithsonian institutions. but we bring in virtually as well to people. up to the minute, real-time data on what is happening