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GOES-U Satellite is Gearing Up for Launch
2024.06.21
Follow the progress on the NASA GOES-U blog. Launch is June 25, 2024.
ESD Scientists Support ARCSIX Campaign
2024.05.28
ESD scientists are in Pituffik, Greenland, or are participating remotely this month for the first Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface-Interaction Experiment (ARCSIX) aircraft campaign deployment. ARCSIX seeks to understand how coupling between radiative processes and sea ice surface properties influence summer sea ice melt, understand processes controlling the predominant Arctic cloud regimes and their properties, and improve our ability to monitor Arctic cloud, aerosol, radiation, and sea ice processes from space.
Happy 25th birthday, NASA’s Earth Observatory
2024.04.29
Since the launch of NASA’s Earth Observatory (EO) on April 29, 1999, the EO Group (613/SSAI) has published more than 18,000 image-driven stories, featuring everything from the newest satellite imagery to decades-long records of change. View a video highlighting 25 of our favorite images and data visualizations. The collection represents Earth’s diverse landscapes—deserts, mountains, oceans, and polar regions—along with depictions of human interaction with the environment.
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.
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.
Chasing the Eclipse
2024.03.29
Jie Gong (613) was interviewed, together with her colleague Jen Fowler (LaRC), by WHYY-FM about the upcoming National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP). Jie discussed the science motivation behind the NEBP national campaign. The team will launch ~600 weather balloons and ~ 600 engineering balloons along the April 8th eclipse path to collect and analyze a valuable dataset to unveil transient atmospheric responses to this magnificent 3-minute shadow on Earth. The full podcast can be found here or search “Chasing the Eclipse” using Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
GPS World Features Research by Wu
2024.03.13
In a recent research report entitled “A Black Hole in Earth Science” appearing in GPS World, Dong Wu (613) found a significant loss of GNSS radio occultation (RO) data in 2023 over Europe and the Middle East, which is likely a result of the intensified electronic warfare used in Ukraine-Russia and the nearby conflict regions.
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.
Zhou Receives AAS Editor's Award
2024.02.23
Yaping Zhou (613/UMBC) received the 2024 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) Editor's Award for her meticulous contributions to a 2023 article, which significantly enhanced the quality of the manuscript.
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.
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.
Yuan Quoted in The New York TImes
2023.12.26
Tianle Yuan (613/UMBC) was quoted in a New York Times story titled “EarthWas Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm?” about accelerated global warming in 2023 and the role of aerosol-cloud interactions and recent shipping fuel regulations.
Goddard Innovators Develop the TerraROVER
2023.12.20
Geoffrey Bland (613), a developer of the TerraROVER, a 14-inch remotely controlled surface measurement vehicle, was featured in an article in NASA’s The Spark, Vol. 21 entitled “Batteries Not Included: Goddard Innovators Develop the TerraROVER.”
Plain Writes about Living in Extreme Heat
2023.12.18
Charlie Plain (613/SSAI), ESDS science writer, published an article, "Living in Heat that Kills," on NASA’s Earthdata website. The article describes NASA-funded work using NASA Earth science data to examine vulnerability and exposure of residents to extreme heat in Dade County-Miami, Florida.
Oreopoulos Quoted in EOS
2023.12.13
Dr. Lazaros Oreopoulos (613) was quoted in AGU’s science news magazine, EOS, about how deforestation in SE Asia has been affecting cloudiness in the last two decades.
2023 Atmospheres (AT) Awards Announced
2023.11.30
It is a pleasure to announce the recipients of this year's Atmospheres (AT) Peer Awards!
• Daeho Jin (613/UMBC), Best Earth Science Research Results Portal (ESRRP) Entry
• Sergey Korkin (613/UMBC), Best Senior Author Publication
• Alfonso Delgado-Bonal (613/UMBC), Best Senior Author Publication
• Dan Anderson (614/UMBC), Outstanding Performance in Science
• Yuli Liu (612/UMBC), Outstanding Performance in Science
• Michael Watson (612/McCallie Associates), Engineering/Instrumentation Support
• GPM Ground Validation (GV) Team
- Carl Schirtzinger (615/SSAI), Engineering/Instrumentation Support
- Alexey Chibisov (615/McCallie Associates), Engineering/Instrumentation Support
- Mick Boulanger (840/SSAI), Engineering/Instrumentation Support
• Erin Delaria (614/NPP), Field Campaign Support
• Jayne Boehmler (614/SSAI), Field Campaign Support
• Eric Nelkin (612/SSAI), Science Software Development
• Rama Varma Raja Mundakkara-Kovilakom (614/SSAI), Science Software Development
• Zachary Fasnacht (614/SSAI), Science Software Development
• Claudia Alvarez-Warren (610/ADNET), IT Support
• Lara Clemence (610/GST), Web Support
• Mariel Friberg (613/UMD), Mentoring
• Sallie Smith (619/GST), Outreach
• Marcy August (613/X3M), Business Support
• Johnny Brendle (610/ASRC), Business Support
• ARSET Team, Distinguished Contribution Group Award
- Melanie Follette-Cook (612/NASA)
- Brock Blevins (612/SSAI)
- Selwyn Hudson-Odoi (612/UMBC)
- Natasha Johnson-Griffin (612/SSAI)
- Sarah Cutshall (612/SSAI)
- Jonathan O’Brien
- Suzanne Monthie (612/GST
- David Barbato (612/UMBC)
- Sean McCartney (610/SSAI)
- Amita Mehta (612/UMBC)
- Pawan Gupta (618/NASA)
- Carl Malings (610.1/MSU)
- Marines Martins (612/Space Systems)
- Sarah Strode (614/NASA)
• Ozonesonde Team, Distinguished Contribution Group Award
- Rhonie Wolff
- Thomas Northam
- Chris Wright
- Debra Kollonige (614/SSAI)
- Niko Fedkin (614/NPP)
- Anne Thompson (610/Emeritus)
• Bob Meneghini (612/NASA), Special Recognition Award
• Deanna Adamcyzk (157/NASA), Special Recognition Award
2023 Clarivate (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researchers
2023.11.14
Benjamin Cook (611), Joanna Joiner (614), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Doug Morton (618), Ben Poulter (618), Matt Rodell (610), Alex Ruane (611), and Eric Vermote (619) were selected as 2023 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.
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