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Notes from the Field: Waiting for Better Weather
2025.02.19
AVUELO has encountered one of the wettest and cloudiest dry seasons in memory. After a series of great acquisitions over core and important areas, our airborne science has stood down for several days with heavy cloud cover.
Notes from the Field: So Long, and Thanks for All the Leaves
2025.02.18
It’s really hard to believe, but I will already be departing Panama tomorrow. When I arrived a week ago, on February 5, I had a hunch but didn’t fully appreciate just how busy our AVUELO ground and airborne teams would be keeping up with our ambitious sampling and data collection plans and schedule.
Notes from the Field: Day One - AVUELO’S First Tropical Survey
2025.02.11
On February 6, 2025, after years of preparation and four months of intense planning, an aircraft with an advanced NASA instrument took off for the AVUELO campaign’s first survey in the tropics, while teams on the ground spread out to collect ground-truth data. The Airborne Validation Unified Experiment: Land to Ocean (AVUELO) is a partnership between NASA, the Smithsonian Institution’s Tropical Research Institute, and the Costa Rican Fisheries Federation, as well as universities and institutes in the United States and Panama.
PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign
2024.12.17
It’s a flight day for one of NASA’s most expansive and complex field campaigns.
The goal: to check the data collected from orbit by NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. To do that, members of the PACE-PAX (PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment) field campaign deployed two aircraft and a research ship from multiple locations in California over the duration of September 2024.
2024 Clarivate (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researchers
2024.11.19
Benjamin Cook (611), Joanna Joiner (614), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Doug Morton (618), Nima Pahlevan (619), and Ben Poulter (618) were selected as 2024 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (Web of Science). Recipients are recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.
SCOAPE-II Completes Successful Campaign
2024.11.01
Aircraft measurements of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were collected for the Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollutant Experiment 2 (SCOAPE-II Ryan Stauffer, 614) with the GeoCAPE Airborne Simulator instrument (GCAS PI Scott Janz, 614) on the NASA/LaRC B200 aircraft. SCOAPE-II is a NASA/Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) campaign to measure emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases from oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. The six flights conducted October 7–13, 2024, were supported by forecasts from Debra Kollonige (614/SSAI) and Niko Fedkin (614/NPP), GCAS operation by Zane McBride (618/SSAI), and coordination by Laura Judd (NASA/LaRC). GCAS measured dozens of NO2 plumes emitted from oil and gas platforms and support vessels, including while category 5 hurricane Milton was moving through the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Notes from the Field: Tundra and Peatland Fires in the Northwest Territories
2024.10.02
After our adventures in Quebec and Greenland, it was now time for our last stop in this intense season of fieldwork. This time we were heading to the Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT).
Notes from the Field: Twenty-one Hours a Day on 30-Foot Floating Science Lab
2024.09.24
Off the coast of southern California, a research team sails for science on the Research Vessel Blissfully. https://earthobserv
PACE Blog: NASA Pilots Use Specialty Suits to Validate Data
2024.09.24
Welcome to NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX). PACE-PAX uses the unique vantage point of the ER-2 aircraft to gather data on small particles in the atmosphere and ultimately help verify the data gathered by the satellite in orbit.
Notes from the Field: Sailing Away for PACE
2024.09.13
Hello from sunny Santa Barbara, California, where the ship operations for the PACE-PAX campaign are underway!
Open House in Yellowknife
2024.08.16
Peter Griffith (SSAI/618/SSAI), Chip Miller (JPL) and the crew of NASA802 (AFRC) hosted an open house in Yellowknife Canada highlighting the flights over Northwest Territories, acquiring L-band SAR imagery of the areas of boreal forest that burned in 2014, 2022, and 2023. An estimated 200 Yellowknifers came to see the plane and talk with the crew and scientists. The event was co-hosted by the Department of Environment and Climate Change of the Government of Northwest Territories, and covered by local media Cabin Radio (1, 2) and the CBC.
Notes from the Field: Day-in-the-Life of a PACE-PAX Mission Flight
2024.08.12
We are in the field supporting PACE-PAX (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment), a multi-disciplinary mission that involves two aircraft—the NASA ER-2 and CIRPAS Twin Otter—and several mobile ocean assets, all helping to validate observations and data products from NASA’s new satellite observation platform, PACE.
Landsat Science News Digest Available
2024.05.17
The Landsat Science News Digest newsletter curates the latest Landsat news, EO images, outreach activities, and Landsat-related publications all in one place. Sign up here to join the mailing list.
Earthdata Article Highlights Gupta's Work
2024.05.16
Dr. Pawan Gupta, an expert on India's air pollution, is featured in the Earthdata article "Tracking India's Air Quality." The article highlights how NASA data is being used to assess air quality across India to promote environmental justice.
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...
Colorado River Water Accounting
2024.04.30
“Meat of the Matter: Colorado River Over-Consumed," written by Laura Rocchio (618/SSAI), was published to the Landsat Science website. The story details a new, exhaustive, and Landsat-informed water accounting for the Colorado River Basin conducted by Richter et al., 2024. The largest consumptive use of Colorado River’s water was found to be for cattle feed.
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.
Feldman Discusses Satellites and Forests
2024.04.03
Andrew Feldman (618/UMD) was interviewed for a Science magazine article about using field global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensors to study plant water stress.
SED Scientists on Chasing the Eclipse
2024.03.29
Tom Colligan (618/UMD) and Jie Gong (613) discussed their work detecting atmospheric gravity waves during a total solar eclipse with NPR's podcast The Pulse.
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.
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.
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