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Dr. Richard Ray Named Recipient of 2025 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science
2024.10.03
We are thrilled to announce the selection of Dr. Richard Ray as the 2025 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science recipient.
Dr. Ray is being recognized for his foundational advances in sea surface change, Earth’s rotation, oceanic and atmospheric tides, and securing Goddard leadership in satellite geodesy.
Dr. Ray’s research includes studies of sea surface change, Earth rotation, and ocean and atmospheric tides. His innovative work has led to numerous advancements in the understanding of these important geophysical processes and has been instrumental to the scientific achievements of some of NASA’s leading Earth science missions, including TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, SWOT, GRACE, and GRACE-FO. Of seminal importance to Goddard and NASA satellite geodesy, and to the world of physical oceanography, is Richard’s development of the Goddard Ocean Tide model. First published in 1999, he has continued to enhance its accuracy and resolution, and maintain its international status as a state-of-the-art global tide model. In addition, Richard’s extensive contributions to understanding the Earth system include: quantifying variations in the Earth’s rotation rate induced by oceanic tides, quantifying tidal energy dissipation in the solid earth and deep ocean, detection of internal tides in the deep ocean, and the first global mapping of the third-degree ocean tide. His research contributions have been critical to the successes of the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team, the NASA Sea Level Science Team, GRACE & GRACE-FO Science Teams, and the SWOT Science Team.
Dr. Ray became a civil servant in the Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory in 1998 and has been part of the Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory since its inception in 2016. His outstanding work has previously been recognized with his selection as the American Geophysical Union Bowie Lecturer (2006), a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (2007), the recipient of the American Meteorological Society Suomi Award (2007), a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2009), and a two-time recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2018 and 2022). He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Hamburg University in 2008 in recognition of his distinguished scientific contributions.
Dr. Mian Chin Named Recipient of 2024 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science
2024.10.03
We are thrilled to announce the selection of Dr. Mian Chin as the 2024 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science recipient.
Dr. Chin is being recognized for for her pioneering work in developing and integrating models with remote sensing observations to understand aerosol sources, sinks, and their impacts on the Earth and its environment.
Dr. Chin is a Physical Scientist in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Code 614. She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from East China Normal University (Shanghai, China) in 1982, a M.A. degree in chemistry from Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A.) in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.) in 1992. During her graduate studies at Georgia Tech, Mian was involved in field experiments measuring atmospheric constituents, laboratory studies determining atmospheric photochemical reaction rates and product yields, and one-dimensional photochemical modeling estimating the stratospheric sulfur budget. Between 1992 and 1995, Mian was a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), where she worked with 3-dimensional regional and global atmospheric chemistry and transport models for studying tropospheric ozone, aerosols, and trace gases. Mian was a Research Scientist at Universities Space Research Association from 1995 to 1997 and a Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2003 before joining the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2003, concentrating on atmospheric model development and satellite data analysis. Her current research includes aerosol-cloud-chemistry-climate interactions, regional and global air quality, transport of aerosols and trace gases, aerosol impacts on global energy balance, and modeling and analysis of data from satellite, ground-based, and airborne observations. Mian has over 175 publications and is a Fellow of both the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. She led the development of one of the first global aerosol models, GOCART, and the Chin et al. 2002 paper describing that model and its applications has received over 851 citations. GOCART remains a standard aerosol model used at NASA and elsewhere.
GOES-U Has Lift Off!
2024.06.25
On Tuesday, June 25th the GOES-U satellite successfully launched at 5:26 pm EDT.
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.
Earth Matters Blog: Citizen Scientists Capture Brilliant Photos of the Aurora
2024.05.15
Participants in NASA's Aurorasaurus project captured these images during the May 2024 geomagnetic storm.
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.
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.
Rodell Talks GRACE
2024.04.18
Dr. Matthew Rodell (610) discussed how NASA's GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellites advance scientists' understanding of global hydrology with Dr. Bridget Scanlon for her Water Resources Podcast series.
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.
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.
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Announced
2023.12.04
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Center was formally announced by NASA administrator Bill Nelson and EPA administrator Michael Regan at the U.S. Pavilion during COP28. The GHG Center, coordinated by NASA in partnership with EPA, NOAA, and NIST, is part of a recently announced federal strategy to improve GHG measurements, monitoring, and information services. The COP28 event featured animations of GMAO (610.1) data products produced by the SVS and highlighted a new data portal (earth.gov/ghgcenter) that features multiple datasets produced by NASA Goddard scientists.
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
PACE Spacecraft Arrives at NASA's Kennedy
2023.11.15
The transport carrier containing NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) observatory spacecraft was offloaded at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023.
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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