The programs, projects, and missions performed by the Earth Science Division at NASA Ames.
NASA’s Earth Science Division is organized around four programmatic areas: flight, research, applied sciences, and technology. Together these areas include programs and projects that are responsible for conducting and sponsoring research to advance scientific understanding of Earth as a system, collecting and disseminating new observations, developing new technologies and computational models, and building the capacity to develop innovative applications of Earth science observations and research results.
Programs & Projects
NASA Earth Exchange
NEX combines state-of-the-art supercomputing, Earth system modeling, and NASA remote sensing data feeds to deliver a work environment for exploring and analyzing terabyte- to petabyte-scale datasets covering large regions, continents or the globe.
Earth Science Projects Office
The Ames Earth Science Project Office is a small group of success-oriented individuals providing project management for NASA's Science Mission Directorate field research.
Airborne Sensor Facility
The Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) at NASA Ames supports a variety of airborne research activities for the NASA Earth Science Division.
Airborne Science Program
The Airborne Science Program within the Earth Science Division is responsible for providing aircraft systems that further science and advance the use of satellite data.
FireSense
FireSense is a NASA-wide effort to bring together data, technology, research, flights, aeronautics, innovation, applications to create the next generation of tools and science-informed capabilities for wildfire adapted communities and to enable society to live sustainably with wildland fires.
ARSET
ARSET offers online and in-person trainings for beginners and advanced practitioners alike. Trainings cover a range of datasets, web portals, and analysis tools and their application to air quality, agriculture, disaster, land, and water resources management.
OpenET
OpenET uses best available science to provide easily accessible satellite-based evapotranspiration (ET) data for improved water management across the western United States.
CAR
Cloud Absorption Radiometer
CASI
The Climate Adaptation Science Investigators Workgroup (CASI)’s mission is to provide the latest scientific research on climate change to help NASA facilities managers adapt to increasing climate risks in timely and effective ways.
Missions
Asia-AQ
Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality (Asia-AQ) is conducting airborne sampling across four locations in collaboration with local partners, to improve understanding of the factors controlling local air quality across Asia through multi-perspective observations and modeling.
ABoVE
ABoVE is a field campaign being conducted in Alaska and Western Canada, broadly focused on gaining a better understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of Arctic and boreal ecosystems to environmental change in western North America, as well as providing the scientific basis for informed decision-making to guide societal responses at local to international levels.
Internships
OCEANOS
OCEANOS is a bilingual, oceanography summer internship based out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a mission to bring oceanography and STEM opportunities to the Hispanic/Latino community.
DEVELOP
DEVELOP, part of NASA’s Applied Sciences Program, addresses environmental and public policy issues through interdisciplinary research projects that apply the lens of NASA Earth observations to community concerns around the globe.
FireSage
FireSage is a summer internship opportunity designed to equip students with expertise in fire ecology and remote sensing technologies. This 10-week internship program offers a paid opportunity to work on-site at NASA Ames Earth Science Division and SJSU’s Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) Geofly Lab and FireEcology Lab.
