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NASA Ames Earth Science

Significant Announcements:

  • Sherry Palacios is a member of the steering committee for the upcoming NOAA ACT Hyperspectral Workshop to be held at the University of Hawaii. This workshop will produce a report on the current state of hyperspectral imaging, and how NOAA should invest in future hyperspectral technology instrument testing.

Current Activities:

  • Cindy Schmidt and Amber McCullum organized a workshop entitled “Indigenous Peoples and NASA Earth Science” hosted by the Red Cliff Band of the Chippewa tribe in Red Cliff, Wisconsin. Attendees included Nancy Searby, Program Manager for NASA’s Capacity Building Program (CBP), Torry Johnson, Program Manager for NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program, representatives from the CBP elements (ARSET, SERVIR, DEVELOP) and representatives from 6 different tribal nations and tribal regional organizations. The workshop focused on how NASA’s Capacity Building Program could build the capacity of tribes to use NASA Earth science tools and data and how Indigenous knowledge could be incorporated into NASA Earth science programs. The workshop also included an opening traditional ceremony by Red Cliff tribal youth and story telling by Red Cliff tribal elders.
     

    Cindy Schmidt and Amber McCullum organized a workshop entitled “Indigenous Peoples and NASA Earth Science”
  • The Earth Venture Suborbital 2 (EVS-2) Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) is conducting its fourth and final deployment currently. The NASA DC-8 arrived in Lajes, Azores. The deployment began in Palmdale, CA then to Anchorage, AK, Kona, HI, Fiji, Christchurch, NZ, Punta Arenas, Chile, Recife, Brazil, Lajes, Azores. The next stops are Thule, Greenland, Anchorage, AK, and finally back to Palmdale. ATom is studying the impact of human-produced air pollution on greenhouse gases and on chemically reactive gases in the atmosphere. Dave Jordan and Erin Czech of the Earth Science Project (ESPO) are the ATom Project Manager and Deputy Project Manager respectively with many ESPO members serving as site manager at various locations in the deployment route. The Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) led by Paul Bui and his team is part of the DC-8 instrument payload. https://espo.nasa.gov/home/atom/
NASA DC-8 in Recife, Brazil
  • This week James Podolske and Kent Shiffer are at JPL preparing the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) instrument and making arrangement to move it from JPL to Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC). TCCON is a global network of ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers (FTS) that measure the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and other trace gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. The AFRC-based TCCON FTS managed by Ames under the leadership of Laura Iraci was moved to JPL to assist in the thermal vacuum test of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3). OCO-3 will be placed on the International Space Station in 2019 for Earth observation of CO2. This same TCCON was used for a similar test with OCO-2 before its launch on Jul. 2, 2014. Data from OCO-2 have provided important perspectives on the role of carbon on Earth. 
     

Upcoming Activities:​

  • The Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) led by Paul Bui will participate in the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP 2018). SARP 2018 will begin on Jun. 17, 2018 providing undergraduate students with hands-on research experience in all aspects of a major airborne scientific campaign. Paul and his Team will demonstrate the MMS operations and the application of its measurements.
https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/nsrc/content/National_Suborbital_Research_Center_SARP_2017