Scott Zona , Head of the Palm
Conservation Program at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and Chair of the
World Conservation Union's Palm Specialist Group, stated, "This exciting
discovery confirms that New Guinea is one of the frontiers of palm research.
William J.iucn.fairchildgarden.

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The IMAGE education and public outreach program received numerous awards
for videos, books, primary and secondary school curricula, teacher training,
museum exhibits, planetarium shows, student workbooks and web-based
information.

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IMAGE was the premier
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There is an urgency to this work as habitat destruction is threatening the
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The group's research
will culminate in the production of an illustrated book on the palms of the
island of New Guinea, as well as local language field guides that aim to teach
local land managers to identify these important palms.
Researchers from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (USA) and the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK) recently announced that a new palm genus found
during the expedition has been formally named by Dr.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden houses the National Palm Collection as
recognized by the American Public Gardens Association (APGA), grows the
world's largest palm collection and is an international center for the study
and conservation of palms.

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Zona of Fairchild and Dr. John Dransfield, world authority on palms and the recently
retired head of Kew's palm research program.

About Fairchild's Palm Conservation Program
The Fairchild Palm Conservation Program is home to the World Conservation
Union's Palm Specialist Group ( http://www. WASHINGTON, NASA's Imager for Magnetopause-to-
Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations,
bringing to a close a successful six-year mission.

The extensive archival database generated by IMAGE promises to yield new
discoveries and will support investigations by other spacecraft and ground-
based observatories for many years.

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Zona is a recognized expert on the palms of New Guinea and a member of
the Palms of New Guinea Project, an international consortium of research
groups from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, United Kingdom, Denmark , Australia
and the USA. Fairchild is located
at 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables (Miami), Florida 33156. It successfully completed its two-
year primary mission and continued providing data into December 2005, when it
stopped responding to commands from ground controllers.
The satellite is in an extended elliptical orbit and poses no threat to the
planet.
IMAGE discoveries have been reported in more than 400 peer-reviewed
publications. More than 20 Ph.gov/

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New Palm Discoveries in New Guinea

, A recent expedition led by
Conservation International has discovered a treasure trove of new species in
the remote mountains of New Guinea."
New Guinea is one of the least well-known areas of plant diversity left in
the tropics and is an area of high priority for palm research. Thus, taxonomic inventory work on
palms throughout the eastern part of this region has been identified by
Conservation International as a high priority.
Prior to the launch of IMAGE, the energetic particles and electrically
charged gas (plasma) surrounding the Earth were completely invisible to human
observers. James Burch is the mission principal Investigator, and Thomas
Moore at Goddard is the Mission Scientist.

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The project is working to document and conserve the palms of this
under explored and still largely intact forest region.
Science highlights include:

- Confirmations: plasma plume creation, post-midnight peak in storm
plasmas, the neutral solar wind, terrestrial origin of geospace storm
plasmas and continuous nature of magnetic reconnection.

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IMAGE enabled researchers to study the global structure and
dynamics of the Earth's inner magnetosphere as it responded to energy from
solar winds.
"Nearly six years of imagery by the pioneering cameras on IMAGE
revolutionized our understanding of geospace and our knowledge of its space
weather," said James Burch, IMAGE principal investigator at the Southwest
Research Institute, San Antonio.
IMAGE was launched on March 25, 2000.

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Current projects include a conservation assessment
of Caribbean palms, genetic studies of rare palms from Mauritius and the
Caribbean , the reintroduction of the Buccaneer palms to Florida and a major
study of palm anatomy.

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- Discoveries: plasmaspheric shoulders and notches, proton auroras in
unexpected places , surprisingly slow plasmasphere rotation, a hot oxygen
geocorona and a secondary interstellar neutral atom stream.

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IMAGE was a Medium Explorer mission sponsored by NASA's Sun-Earth
Connections Program and managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md.

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However, the taxonomy of New
Guinea palms is so poorly understood that efforts to conserve palms are
inhibited by communication difficulties.

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While large
areas of primary forest still exist there, the rapidly expanding activities of
local and foreign logging agencies , and major economic development plans
constitute a real and urgent threat to habitats and biodiversity . The new genus is named Dransfieldia micrantha in
honor of Dr. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is dedicated to exploring,
explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants.

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NASA Updates Magnetic Field Mission

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"The IMAGE mission showed us space around the Earth is anything but empty,
and that plasma clouds can be imaged and tracked just as we do from space for
Earth's surface weather," said Barbara Giles, IMAGE Program Scientist at NASA
headquarters.gsfc .

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American editorial center for the International Palm Society's journal, Palms.D. theses were based on data from the mission.

- Resolutions: the source of kilometric continuum radiation, solar-wind
and auroral intensity effects on ionospheric out flow and the
relationship between proton and electron auroras during geospace storms.

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Among the newly discovered animals and
plants is a group of five new palm species. Second only
in economic importance to the grasses, palms are of crucial significance to
subsistence communities throughout the tropics. Baker of Kew. The Southwest Research Institute conducts IMAGE science
operations.