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NASA Partners with Department of State for Air Quality Tool
2024.05.10
During Air Quality Awareness Week, the U.S. Department of State released a new, machine learning-powered particulate air pollution forecast in the ZephAir web version for all cities that host a U.S. diplomatic mission worldwide. This forecast tool was developed by Pawan Gupta (618) and his team through NASA's Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) and Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG). Congratulations on this achievement!
Morton Named a 2023 Arthur S. Flemming Award Recipient
2024.05.10
Congratulations to Dr. Doug Morton for his 2023 Arthur S. Fleming Award. Named in honor of Arthur S. Flemming, awardees are recognized for excellence in federal service. Dr. Morton, of NASA Goddard's Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, was recognized in the category of Applied Science and Engineering. Dr. Morton is being recognized for his leadership in the development of remote-sensing techniques as well as technologies for the detection, monitoring, and study of forest dynamics, fires, and the carbon cycle.
Notes from the Field: Springtime in the Deciduous Forest
2024.05.06
On a blustery March morning, Petya Campbell (618/UMBC) stood atop a 204-foot-tall tower and looked across the waving canopy of the leafless deciduous forest at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland...
Earth Day Toolkit Available
2024.04.18
NASA’s fleet of satellites see the whole Earth, every day. This year, you can celebrate Earth Day with NASA wherever you are! Host your own Earth Day event—supported by NASA science—with activities, demonstrations, handouts, posters, videos, and more.
Voices in the Field with Dr. Rachel Tilling
2024.04.01
Dr. Rachel Tilling (615/UMD) was featured in the ICESat-2 Mission’s “Voices in the Field” series. In the feature, Dr. Tilling shares her story at sea (ice), where she and her team take measurements to compare with satellite data. Dr. Tilling recalled her time in the field where she met penguins, camped on the ice, and slept in three sleeping bags to stave off the cold.
PACE Data Webinar Registration Open
2024.03.13
Ready to work with data from the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission? Join members of NASA’s Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC) on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 PM ET (-0400 UTC), to learn how to discover, access, and use PACE data at OB.DAAC. Registration for this Earthdata webinar is open to everyone.
Notes From the Field Blog: Grounding Perspectives
2024.02.13
Scientists and disaster risk-reduction practitioners visited Nepal to view major landslide sites and better understand what satellite data reveal about the landscape.
PACE Mission Blog: Liftoff! NASA’s Earth Science Mission Launches Into Space Coast Sky
2024.02.08
3, 2, 1 … LIFTOFF! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8.
PACE Mission Blog: Signal Acquired -- NASA’s PACE Spacecraft Begins Its Science Mission
2024.02.08
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft has successfully made contact with ground stations back on Earth providing teams with early readings of its overall status, health, operation, and capabilities postlaunch.
Notes from the Field: Little Things Make a Big Difference
2024.02.07
Individual bits of tiny living beings and inanimate particles are too small for your eye to see. But when billions to trillions of them aggregate in one place, they can make a vast difference in life on Earth.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Clears for PACE Launch
2024.02.07
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict 95% favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The team is targeting liftoff at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Delays Launch of NASA’s PACE Mission
2024.02.07
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Wednesday, Feb. 7 launch of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather 50% For Launch of NASA’s Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
2024.02.06
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict 50% favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather 40% Favorable for Tuesday PACE Mission Launch
2024.02.05
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 40% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission at 1:33 a.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 6, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Delays Launch of NASA’s Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
2024.02.05
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Tuesday, Feb. 6 launch of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 7, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Why the PACE team is nocturnal this week
2024.02.05
There’s a good reason why NASA’s PACE satellite is launching in the early morning hours. Late tonight, I’ll venture out in the chilly Merritt Island air to catch a glimpse of a historic sight.
Notes from the Field: The Long and Winding Road to Launch
2024.02.05
A few paths in life are short and direct; more of them are long and winding.
This week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying the PACE satellite, short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem. Once in orbit 676 kilometers (420 miles) above our planet, the newest addition to NASA’s fleet of Earth-observers will look at the oceans and land surfaces in more than 100 wavelengths of light from the infrared through the visible spectrum and into the ultraviolet.
For NASA and the ocean science community, the PACE launch will be the culmination of 9 or 46 years of work, depending on when you start counting.
Rock Climber Alex Honnold and Oceanographer Ivona Cetinic Talk New NASA Ocean Mission
2024.01.30
Professional rock climber Alex Honnold and NASA oceanographer Ivona Cetinić talk about ocean color, plankton, climate and all things PACE. PACE is the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission and is poised to measure the world's oceans with unprecedented resolution.
ESD Members Appointed Leads on U.S. Carbon Cycle Plan
2024.01.11
Ben Poulter (618) and Maria Tzortziou (614) were appointed as two of the six Lead Authors for the Third Decadal U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (CCSP). The CCSP will work with the carbon cycle community to assess the questions highlighted in previous plans and propose new directions for the community in light of new U.S. Government priorities and international assessments.
Bliss Interviewed by ICI Radio-Canada
2024.01.04
Angela Bliss (615) was interviewed by ICI Radio-Canada for a web and radio story on recent sea ice conditions. The story reports unusually mild temperatures and a lack of snow and sea ice floes reported by local residents in Nunavik, Northern Quebec. Angela provided comments on the unusually low sea ice conditions in waters of Northern Quebec and the overall reduction of Arctic sea ice cover, especially after the warmest recorded Arctic summer in 2023.
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Tabor/Fatoyinbo GEDI Research Featured in The New York TImes
2023.12.15
Karyn Tabor (617/SSAI) and Lola Fatoyinbo (618) co-authored a paper published earlier this year in Nature Communications that was featured online and in print in The New York Times. “How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.” The article highlights their research using GEDI to quantify the contribution of protected areas for climate mitigation.
Dezfuli Featured in Forbes Article
2023.11.28
Amin Dezfuli (610.1/UMBC) was featured in a Forbes article titled “Next Door To COP28, Climate Change Is Testing The Limits For Survival,” discussing climate change impacts on the Middle East ahead of COP28 in UAE.
Shuman Discusses Iceberg's Escape
2023.11.26
Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) was interviewed by ‘Live Science’ to discuss the world's biggest iceberg 3 times the size of New York City is finally escaping Antarctica after being trapped for almost 40 years.
Blogs: NASA Climate Science Spacecraft Arrives ‘on PACE’ for Launch
2023.11.20
NASA’s PACE spacecraft completed its journey Tuesday, Nov. 14, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the Astrotech Spacecraft Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers and technicians arrived ahead of the spacecraft to prepare ground equipment for offloading and processing before fueling and final encapsulation.
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