Nine individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2020 Union honorees or fellows by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and will receive honors bestowed by AGU for their excellence in scientific research, education, communication, and outreach.
Aug. 21, 2017, marked a unique opportunity for scientists in the contiguous U.S. ??? for the first time in nearly a century, a total solar eclipse would sweep coast to coast, providing scientists under the path of totality with a rare chance to study the Sun and Earth in uncommon ways.
Researchers from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), its parent Computational Information & Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and university partner organizations are participating in the Scientific Program at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, being held online 1–17 Dec 2020.
Mike Carlowicz is the managing editor of NASA Earth Observatory, which publishes a different image-based story about Earth every day. He is responsible for helping the team find and shape those stories, edit them, and put them together with strong visuals.
Kevin Ward's Earth Observatory team focuses on communicating how NASA uses remote sensing satellites, airborne, and in situ data to look at our planet and learn how the Earth system works.
NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP imaged the fires and smoke across Russia's Siberian province on Aug. 31, 2020 and found massive aerosols coming off the fires and heading high into the atmosphere.
As a science writer for NASA's Earth Observatory, Kathryn Hansen has made a career out of learning new things directly from the experts and then relaying that in a relatable way to others. But initially she wanted to be astronomer, until a summer job in college changed her perspective.
Josh Stevens is a data visualizer, creating imagery from NASA's Earth science data. He pairs geographic analysis with the science of how people see, think, and reason about graphics to communicate about our planet.
While dust routinely blows across the Atlantic Ocean, scientists rarely see plumes as large and dense with particles as the one that darkened Caribbean skies in June 2020.
Poetry. Mobile apps to promote mental health. Rooftop gardening solutions. Drone delivery for food. These are just some of the projects participants dreamed up in the NASA Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge, a virtual global hackathon aimed at innovations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) CubeSat achieved “first light” on April 17, 2020. The tiny satellite sent back its very first image over Europe with bright splashes of colors labeling clouds and aerosols, tiny particles in the atmosphere.
Through its Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science (RRNES) initiative, NASA is providing funding for selected, rapid-turnaround projects that make innovative use of satellite data and other NASA resources to address the different environmental, economic and societal impacts of the pandemic.