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

The Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) Project Releases V0.6.0 Dashboard and Deployed a Jupyterhub Environment

March 30, 2023

On 2/9/23, the VEDA project released its latest Dashboard (v0.6.0) that included Welcome page improvements, a new environmental justice discovery, the ability to quickly revisit past analyses, and render multiple polygons when analyzing data. The release has also introduced the …

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SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO) Launches Southeast Asia Hub

March 30, 2023

On January 24th, Karen St. Germain, Director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert F. Godec, ADPC Executive Director Hans Guttman, and Pakorn Apaphant, Executive Director of Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency launched SERVIR Southeast …

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NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team Provided Imagery to the British Broadcasting Channel (BBC) for Use in a Planet Earth-Style Documentary

March 30, 2023

Virginia (Gini) Close, a reporter in the natural history unit at the BBC, contacted the Earth Science branch at NASA MSFC requesting assistance showing the impacts of agricultural land use change at the Katavi National Park in Tanzania. The team …

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NASA Applied Sciences Team (AST) Principal Investigator (PI) Launches Crop Mapping Tool for Brazil

March 30, 2023

On December 19th, 2022, SERVIR Amazonia and AST PI, Naiara Pinto (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), had a virtual launch of her service for Brazilian stakeholders, which included the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), NGO Imaflora, and the subregional authority of …

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Recent South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SARI) Activities Led by Marshall Scientist

March 29, 2023

Marshall Earth Scientist, Krishna Vadrevu, recently led SARI Activities in Vietnam and Cambodia. These activities were funded under the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change Program. The International Meeting on Air Pollution in Asia – Inventories, Monitoring and Migration was held …

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