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
A 2-year proposal, led by Jordan Bell (ST11), will focus on the use of freely available Earth observations and data from the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program to identify, map, and analyze hail and wind damage swaths was recently selected. …
Commercial SmallSat Data Analysis Proposal Selected Read More »
Team members from the MSFC Earth Science Disasters Team have been providing significant response support to NASA Headquarters/Earth Science Division in the aftermath of record-setting wildfires that impacted Maui in early August 2023. Ronan Lucey (UAH/ST11) and Jordan Bell (ST11) …
MSFC Earth Science Disasters Team Support for Wildfires in Maui and for Hurricane Idalia Read More »
During IGARSS 2023 in Pasadena, CA, the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) members Manil Maskey, Iksha Gurung, and Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian (ST11) teamed up with researchers from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre for the extensive, full-day tutorial End-to-End Machine Learning …
Patrick Duran (ST11), SPoRT tropical meteorology team lead and Deputy Program Applications Lead for NASA’s TROPICS mission, gave a presentation at NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) user working group meeting on 6/21/23. Duran gave an overview …
Presentation and First Light Images For NASA’s TROPICS Mission Read More »
As part of the 2023 NASA DEVELOP Bhutan Closeout held 8/10/23 in Washington, DC, Tony Kim, SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) Project Manager, provided highlights of a May 2023 visit to Bhutan by SERVIR team members. Timothy Mayer, SERVIR Hindu …