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 Presented NASA’s Update on Data Integrity to the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS) Meeting

April 23, 2022

Manil Maskey (ST11) presented NASA’s study on data traceability and data integrity at the 53rd WGISS meeting on March 23, 2022. The study (to be published in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine) includes technological approaches to solving the problem …

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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) to Lead Phase II Implementation of SERVIR West Africa

April 23, 2022

On March 15, the cooperative agreement to implement Phase II of SERVIR West Africa was awarded to the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), which will be leading the consortium. This agreement extends SERVIR’s activities in the …

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SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) Provides Training on Satellite Observations and tools for Landslide Monitoring and Forecasting

March 25, 2022

Nishan Kumar Biswas, Thomas Stanley, and Robert Alexander Emberson provided a virtual training March 8-11, as part of AST Principal Investigator Dalia Kirschbaum’s project: ‘A landslide hazard and risk assessment system for SERVIR-Mekong’. The training was coordinated by the Asian …

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MSFC/ST11 Scientists Discuss August 2020 Midwest Derecho with Iowa TV Station

March 25, 2022

Three MSFC ST11 scientists and one from LaRC recently joined Nathan Santo Domingo of Iowa’ News Now/CBS-2/Fox-28 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to discuss the August 10, 2020 Derecho that impacted the area. Jordan Bell (ST11), Christopher Schultz (ST11), and Sarah …

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MSFC Earth Scientist Profiled as part of Women’s History Month

March 25, 2022

Lori Schultz (ST11) was featured in NASA HQ Applied Science Program web article as part of Women’s History Month.  The article, “Piecing together Earth Data with Lori Schultz” focuses on her work as a center coordinator for the NASA Applied …

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