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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, June 04, 2024
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Safety Awareness Campaign
he annual Goddard Safety Awareness Campaign is designed to assess the center’s safety culture through various presentations, training sessions, and events focused on different elements of safety. This year’s campaign will take place from June 4 to 6, with additional offerings taking place from June 11 to 13. This year's theme,“Breaking the Sound Barrier: Safe Spaces Strong Teams,” addresses the pressure that managers and others often feel to ignore safety warning signs amid deadlines, budget restrictions, and other factors.
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Tuesday, June 04, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Canceled: GMAO Seminar Series on Earth System Science
Paul Dirmeyer - George Mason University
To Be Rescheduled
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Tuesday, June 04, 2024
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Engineering Colloquium
What Are the Biggest Auto Safety Blunders… Past, Present, and Future… and What Can Be Done So We’re All Safer?
(Part of Goddard's Safety Awareness Campaign)
Byron Bloch,Auto Safety Expert
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Featured Videos

Ocean Color Countdown with PACE

The color of our oceans, lakes and rivers can tell us a lot about what's going on just beneath the surface. With the new hyperspectral capabilities of the PACE mission, we'll know more about the health of aquatic ecosystems and those impacts on human health and climate studies. We explore just five different ocean colors around the globe and find out what those colors tell us.

PACE's Instruments Reveal a New Dimension of Atmospheric Info

Two instruments on NASA’s upcoming PACE satellite mission will look at aerosols and clouds – the A and C in the mission’s name, Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem – to help scientists learn more about their characteristics and interactions in Earth’s systems.

The Insanely Important World of Phytoplankton

Ivona Cetinić, the Science Lead for Ocean Biogeochemistry for PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), describes the weird, wonderful and important world of phytoplankton and why it's important for the PACE mission to study these tiny creatures.

A Sea of Data: The PACE Mission

The data from PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) will help us better understand how the ocean and atmosphere exchange carbon dioxide. In addition, it will reveal how aerosols might fuel phytoplankton growth in the surface ocean.

 

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