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SIGNIFICANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
2 October 2019.
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- NASA Ames supports USGS methane measurements in Alaska – A joint NASA-USGS team lead PI Kristen Manies (USGS) completed flight testing and data collection with a new CH4 sensor integrated onto a DJI M600 multirotor UAS. The project is being funded by the USGS Innovation Center to evaluate the utility of SUAS to provide measurements of CH4 fluxes from ecosystems. The deployment took place outside of Fairbanks, AK and the team successfully flew several missions over bogs and wetlands. The payload also included a sonic anemometer which will enable the team to derive fluxes of CH4. The long-term goal of the project is to enable multi-tiered remote sensing of CH4 emissions at various scales to enable scaling up of local measurements to enable regional estimates of CH4 emissions in this rapidly changing region. Rick Kolyer (Code SGG) lead the integration engineering and also assisted in piloting the aircraft.
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- CAMP2Ex (Cloud, Aerosol, Monsoonal Processes – Philippines Experiment) – Deployment continues. Sixteen P-3B science flights have been completed. Scientists are happy. P-3B to begin transit back to the U.S. on 5 October 2019. Last science CAMP2Ex flight for the SPEC Learjet has been completed. Transit to the U.S. begins today.
1-6 October 2019.
- Diana Gentry (ARC-SGE) and David Smith (ARC-SCR), the co-directors of the Ames Aerobiology Lab, have been invited via Dr. Adriana Ocampo’s office at NASA HQ to attend the Venera-D Landing Sites and Cloud Habitability Workshop in Moscow, Russia.
The Venera-D mission concept has been under development for four years, with the goal of advancing the investigation of Venus’ atmosphere, surface, and interior and the processes that link them as a system. The workshop will be held on 2-5 October 2019 at the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, to gather community input on the criteria for scientifically desirable landing sites at Venus for the Venera-D lander and methods that can advance our understanding of Venus’ habitability, present and past. Dr. Gentry and Dr. Smith will be sharing their expertise on life and biochemistry in terrestrial clouds, including methods for sampling and detection technologies.