Earth Science Branch
The Earth Science Branch conducts research of the Earth as a system with a focus on lightning and precipitation processes, weather and climate variability, monitoring fluxes of heat and water from the surface, and associated data management and mining activities for scientific discovery and applications for societal benefit.
Earth Science Branch Projects
Manil Maskey (IMPACT/ST11) gave a presentation at the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Science Committee Meeting (SCM) on the various initiatives and projects undertaken by the Earth Science Division that aim to lower the boundaries to science research. Following his talk, …
Stephanie Jimenez, the Regional Science Associate for SERVIR Amazonia, attended the Space Week Nordeste 2023 event along with Natalia Bermudez, Inter-American Research Associate for NASA Applied Sciences. The event, held in Fortaleza, Brazil, from 8/14-20/23, was jointly hosted by Federal …
David McKenzie, Mitzi Adams, Sabrina Savage, Alphonse Sterling, Adam Kobelski, and Robert Loper (ST13) and Biswajit Mondal (NPP postdoc) participated in the 54th meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society in Minneapolis, MN, 8/13-18/23. David McKenzie …
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The lightning Imaging Sensor aboard the International Space Station was featured on a segment of CBS’s Sunday morning called “The Science and Art of Lightning.” The segment and article can be found at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-science-and-art-of-lightning/.
On 8/3/23, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison visited the SERVIR Amazonia hub, hosted at the joint campus of the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Palmira, Colombia. They …