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
Pontus Olofsson (ST11) attended the annual meeting of the NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) User Working Group on 6/21-22/23. On 6/21/23, Olofsson gave a presentation to the User Working Group about the Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) …
IMPACT members from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), including Ge Peng, Deborah Smith, Mark Parsons, and Stephanie Wingo, contributed to the 2023 Summer Meeting of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) in Burlington, VT during 7/18-21/23. Among them, they …
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Aaron Kaulfus and Brian Freitag (ST11) supported an on-site visit on 7/27-28/23 by a NASEM committee to review MSFC workforce, infrastructure, and capabilities most relevant towards NASA’s 2022 Strategic Plan. As part of on-site reviews of all NASA centers, the …
Sarah Bang (ST11) presented lightning science to NASA MSFC’s children for Take Our Children To Work Day in a presentation called “Storms that go BOOM with Dr. Bang!” There were ~12 families in attendance who learned about how lightning forms, …
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William Koshak (ST11) co-authored an article accepted for publication on 7/2/23 in the journal Fire, with title “Spatial Structure of Lightning and Precipitation Associated with Lightning-Caused Wildfires in the Central to Eastern United States”. The paper examines the horizontal storm …