(SUPPORT SCIENTIST)
| Email: | sabrina.delgadoarias@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6696 |
| Org Code: | 618 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 618 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC |
Science Systems and Applications, Inc./NASA GSFC - Greenbelt, MD
December 2014 - Present
Applications Coordinator and POC for the NASA Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 Mission Applications Program. In charge of researching stakeholder interests and requirements for satellite observations, managing Early Adopter program, creating strategies to identify, engage, and expand the user community, and evaluating NASA products with regard to their public, political, and societal value for decision making needs.
Sigma Space Corporation/NASA GSFC - Greenbelt, MD
April 2013 - December 2014
Lead Applications POC for the NASA Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 Mission. As part of the Applications Team for ICESat-2 and NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System, in charge of researching stakeholder interests and requirements for satellite mission/carbon monitoring products, creating strategies to identify, engage, and expand the user community, and evaluating NASA products with regard to their public, political, and societal value for decision making needs.
International Food Policy Research Institute - Washington, DC
January 2012 - December 2012
During the final year of the Worldwide Extension Study (WWES), developed 15 summary reports on the agricultural extension systems in 182 countries. Responsible for reading, analyzing, comparing, contrasting, and then aggregating data to develop sub-regional (e.g. South America, East Asia) trends. Summary reports will be posted on the WWES website (http://www.worldwide-extension.org/) and then moved to the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services website (http://www.g-fras.org/en/).
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Washington, DC - Washington, DC
September 2011 - May 2012
Assisted in organizing New Tools for Science Seminar Series (http://www.cspo.org/dc/tools/) events. Created, developed and managed contact database for Washington, D.C. office mailing list, as well as managed email invitations. Helped with initial planning and organizing of World Wide Views on Biodiversity global citizen participation project held on September 2012.
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - College Park, MD
June 2009 - January 2010
Participated in the study of the value of renewable technologies in the US energy system with a focus on their role in green house gas mitigation. Research focused on developing data sets for a segmented representation of the US electricity sector and of enhanced and new renewable technology descriptions. Integrated Agro-Ecological Zone data into regional land use data sets of the MiniCAM model’s Agriculture Land-Use Module, which contributed to the development of the IPCC’s RCP4.5 Scenario.
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific National Northwest Laboratory, Battelle - College Park
April 2007 - April 2009
Contributed to data development, research, and documentation of models that simulate the economic and physical impacts of global change policy options. Efforts included researching and implementing new ways to streamline and improve the processes needed for the generation of model input data, developing historical SO2 estimates, downscaling global anthropogenic emissions from gridded data, as well as synthesizing datasets in order to integrate livestock production system details into the MiniCAM model’s Agriculture Land-use Module. Summarized and translated a vulnerability and adaptation study done in El Salvador.
Science & Technology Policy, Science Masters - December 2012
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University
Washington, D.C.
Applied Project: Indigenous Knowledge and Information Communication Technologies:
Democratization of Agricultural Extension in South America
Agricultural & Resource Economics, Bachelor of Science - May 2006
Minors in Statistics & Chinese Studies
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2013 - Present
2013 - Present
INEX Summer University: Sustainable Development & Corporate Social Responsibility - July 2011
Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (ULACIT)
San José, Costa Rica July 2011
Spatial Ecology, Geospatial Analysis & Remote Sensing for Conservation - March 2011
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Graduate Course
Front Royal, Virginia
Sustainable Development Intern, Third Millennium Alliance, Ecuador - Summer 2010
Master the Media; George Merlis; July 22, 2016 and July 2014
Science Outside the Lab; Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes; June 4-15 2012
Advanced Programming Techniques with Matlab; University of Maryland; September 2009
2022. "Scientist-stakeholder relationships drive carbon data product transfer effectiveness within NASA program." Environmental Research Letters [10.1088/1748-9326/ac87bf] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Applications for ICESat-2 Data: From NASA's Early Adopter Program." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 4 (4): 24-37 [10.1109/mgrs.2016.2560759] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Overview of the SMAP Applications and the SMAP Early Adopters Program – NASA’s First Mission-Directed Outreach Effort." Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2016 IEEE International, IGARSS 2016 [Full Text] [10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730361] [Proceedings]
2016. "Improving NASA’s Earth Observation Systems and Data Programs Through the Engagement of Mission Early Adopters." Earth Science Satellite Applications 223-267 [10.1007/978-3-319-33438-7_9] [Article in Book]
2016. "Social network and content analysis of the North American Carbon Program as a scientific community of practice." Social Networks 44 (2016): 226-237 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2015.10.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Improving Operational Awareness Through ICESat-2 Applications Workshops: Cross-Mission Development." The Earth Observer 26 (3): 15-22 [Full Text] [Newsletter]
2012. "Technological Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation in the Peruvian Highlands." Human and Social Dimensions of Climate Change 5-30 [10.5772/50465] [Article in Book]
2011. "RCP4.5: a pathway for stabilization of radiative forcing by 2100." Climatic Change 109 (1-2): 77-94 [10.1007/s10584-011-0151-4] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850–2005." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (3): 1101-1116 [10.5194/acp-11-1101-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Enhancement of Solar Energy Representation in the GCAM Model ." PNNL-18829 [Full Text] [Report]
2015. "Early Adopters Prepare the Way to Use ICESat-2 Data." The Earth Observer 27 (4): 31-35, 39 [Full Text] [Newsletter]
ICE, CLOUD AND LAND ELEVATION SATELLITE-2 (ICESAT-2) APPLICATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATIONAL PLAN
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.75
2015
DELGADO ARIAS, Sabrina1, ESCOBAR, Vanessa1, BROWN, Molly2, NEUMANN, Thomas3, JASINSKI, Michael F.4 and MARKUS, Thorsten5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (2)Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, Code 614.1, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770, (4)Earth Science Remote Sensing, NASA/GSFC, NASA/GSFC, Mail Code 617, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, Greenbelt, MD 20771, sabrina.delgadoarias@nasa.gov
In alignment with the National Plan for Civil Earth Observations, NASA plans to launch the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission in 2017 to continue the multi-year experimental observations of the Earth’s surface elevation established by ICESat (2003-2009). The ICESat-2 mission will advance our knowledge on ice sheet elevation change, sea ice thickness, and other key observations for ecosystem, climate, and water applications. In accordance with the National Plan and in an effort to advance data discovery, access, and use of ICESat-2 observations as put forward by the President’s Big Earth Data Initiative, ICESat-2 has an Applications program. The program provides a framework for building a broad and well-defined user community during the prelaunch phases of the mission to maximize the use of data products after launch and to provide early insight into the range of potential uses of the mission data. Through a multiscale communications approach and an Early Adopter program, ICESat-2 is facilitating the necessary feedback loops between the mission and user communities necessary for a transparent understanding of the utility of ICESat-2 data products within different decision-making contexts. In this presentation we will summarize the various initiatives of the ICESat-2 Applications program and provide a synthesis of the current Early Adopter research in the context of the Societal Benefit Areas laid out by the National Plan.