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Upcoming Events

Monday, December 11, 2023
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
AGU 2023 Fall Meeting
Theme: Wide. Open. Science.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
AGU 2023 Fall Meeting
Theme: Wide. Open. Science.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
NASA Town Hall
Join Us For NASA’s Year-End Town Hall
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Featured Videos

The Science of Snow: Digging for Data

It takes a lot of field work in challenging conditions to gather important snow data. This is the story of NASA’s last SnowEx campaign and those who participated in it.

SnowEx Sets Sights on Alaska

NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team concludes their final year in Alaska. Project Scientist Carrie Vuyovich previews the campaign ahead.

Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials

This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites.

Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa

According to a July 2022 report from the International Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, the worst drought conditions in 70 years across the Horn of Africa have more than 16 million people coping with a shortage of drinking water.

 

Local News

 

Snow Water Equivalent SAR and Radiometer (SWESARR) arrived in Fairbanks, AK to take part in SnowEx led by Carrie Vuyovich (617). SWESARR flights will ...

Friday, October 20, 2023
 

It is a pleasure to announce the selections for the 2023 Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) Annual Peer Awards! Administrative/Business Su...

Friday, October 20, 2023
 

Ed Kim (617), Albert Wu (617/SSAI), and Hessam Izadkhah (617/SSAI) deployed to California with the Scanning L-band Active Passive (SLAP) airborne sens...

Thursday, September 21, 2023
 

Patricia Parker (617/UMD) was interviewed on the ‘Fridays with a Scientist’ series of the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s Crop Watch podcast. The goa...

Friday, September 08, 2023
 

The GPM Outreach Team developed a visualization and web story about heavy rainfall in the Southwest U.S. from Hurricane Hilary, the first tropical sto...

Tuesday, August 22, 2023