ESI Flies High in NASA's PACE-PAX Field Campaign
From August to October 2024, the Earth and Space Institute (ESI) leads the AirHARP2 participation during the NASA PACE Post-launch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX) field campaign at Edwards AFB, CA. The objective of PACE-PAX is to validate the measurements and science products of NASA's Plankton Aerosol Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, an advanced ocean and atmosphere observation satellite in low Earth orbit. AirHARP2 includes a copy of the HARP2 multi-angle polarimeter instrument on the PACE satellite, and several other remote sensors that measure from the ultraviolet to the shortwave infrared. The ESI contributed HARP2 to the PACE mission, which marks the first university payload on a flagship NASA Earth sciences mission in space. 

(Photo Credit: NASA.)

ESI chief engineer Dominik Cieslak (left) and mechanical engineer Ian Decker (right) integrated the AirHARP2 instrument (center) into the pod of the NASA ER-2 high altitude aircraft in early August. ESI scientist Dr. Brent McBride, UMBC Atmospheric Physics graduate students Rachel Smith and Noah Sienkiewicz, and ESI thermal engineer Danny Nelson currently lead the science campaign in the field, with remote data analysis and operations support from ESI faculty and students at UMBC. Seven months of global data from the NASA PACE mission is publicly available on NASA's EarthData service. The PACE-PAX public data release is slated for no earlier than March 31, 2025.
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On September 18, 2024, Dr. Ana Prados and the Disasters Avoided team, through work partly funded by NASA’s Wildfires Program, were featured in the launch of the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Assessment Report 2024. Read and download the report here: https://lnkd.in/ervFvQxJ.

According to Dr. Prados, "The key novel aspect of the report was the analysis of 10 case studies in disaster resilience through a forensics approach. The 6 factors of the Disaster Avoided Model were included in the report and applied to the 10 case studies. One of the factors in the model is “good data”, including those from Earth Observations." 

Learn more about the Disasters Avoided project at disastersavoided.com. To sign up for the newsletter, visit https://lnkd.in/eRmUDFWy.
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NASA's PACE satellite launched in early February 2024, to study the health of the Earth's oceans, land, and atmosphere. As data has been collected, the next step is to validate the measurements provided by this data. For the entire month of September, "the mission’s biggest validation campaign, called PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX)" will consist of scientists taking measurements from ships and aircraft from three different locations in California. Read more about the PACE-PAX mission in this NASA Goddard article. ]]> NASA's PACE satellite launched in early February 2024, to study the health of the Earth's oceans, land, and atmosphere. 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From August 4 - 8, 2024, PACE Hack Week was held at UMBC in the ILSB, with 41 participants (from 89 applicants). Ten people traveled from abroad, and six were associated with NOAA.  Per Dr. Jeremy Werdell (616/GSFC), "A group of early adopters were launched into rapid exploration of data products from the PACE observatory just 178 days into its mission. The event was supported by an award from the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program at WHOI (funded by NSF, NASA, and others)."

Lorraine Remer gave a guest lecture, and ESI's Brent McBride, Anin Puthukkudy, and Carissa Arillo were on hand throughout the event, in addition to participation from GESTAR II scientists (Ian Carroll, Ivona Cetinic, Andy Sayer, Susanne Craig, Sean Foley, and James Allen, local support and participation included Pengwang Zhai, and tutorial prep by Meng Gao (616/SSAI).

Dr. Werdell (616/GSFC), Project Scientist for PACE, explains "The overarching goal was to accelerate (and continue democratizing) the use of PACE data (along with any other observatory), with a focus on Jupyter notebooks and cloud data access from a cloud computing environment. The desired outcome was a series of usable workflows to be hosted publicly online, plus a series of recorded tutorials. The website for the event has all our Jupyter notebooks and lectures, and recordings will be posted once videos are edited. Participants self-organized into nine group projects related to the use of PACE data to explore a science question."

He added that "The mornings proceeded as 1) projects’ rose/thorn/bud reporting, 2) a 45-minute science lecture, and 3) two hours of project time. The afternoons included 1) a pair of one-hour “coding” tutorials and 2) two hours of project time." Each evening included a social event: a Bob Ross painting night, a “fireside chat” with two generous NASA HQ Program Managers, a blue crab picnic at Patapsco State Park, a “nerd nite”/talent show, and a PACE trivia night.

Congratulations to all of the organizers, hosts, researchers, and participants on a successful event. Gratitude was also expressed for UMBC and Flat Tuesdays for being a terrific host site.


PACE Hack Week Group Photo, outside of UMBC's Physics Building. (Credit: Anna Windle, 616/SSAI)

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The Open House also celebrated the continuation of the GESTAR II cooperative agreement. This agreement will provide critical funding and resource support to UMBC, GSFC, and ESI scientists over the next five years. 



Dr. Jae Lee (GESTAR II/613/UMBC) and Dr. Brent McBride (ESI) chatting at the GESTAR II Open House. (Photo credit: A. Houghton)

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In October 2023, Ana Prados, a principal investigator with NASA’s Wildland Fires program, traveled to Asturias in northern Spain, where she visited the site of the single largest fire to date in the region. The fire began in the town of Foyedo and burned 10,096 hectares of land. Dr. Prados met with a team of regional and national government forestry technicians, researchers, emergency service and forest service personnel, and community members. Among other topics, they discussed challenges and opportunities in use of remote sensing for fire management, such as maps of wildfire recurrence and severity indices.

She also presented the findings at the 7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference in Tralee, Ireland in April 2024.

Read more in this feature written by Dr. Prados for the NASA Applied Sciences News Section: "Scientists and Community Leaders Respond to one of Spain’s Largest Fires in History."

(We thank Dr. Prados for her contribution to this item.) 
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Congratulations to Vanderlei Martins (613/UMBC), Director of Earth and Space Institute, on this well-deserved recognition! 

J. Vanderlei Martins received an Exceptional Public Service Medal, one of the highest awards given to a non-government employee: "For exceptional sustained effort, vision, and leadership in delivering the Hyper Angle Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP2) to NASA's PACE mission."  

To learn more about HARP2 and PACE, click here.


Dr. Martins with his family (photo provided by M. Young.)


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The news feature includes a new visualization from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, "PACE Makes the Invisible Visible," as well as stills from PACE's instrument and polarimeters: the Ocean Color Instrument, HARP2, and SPEXone.  ]]> For National Ocean Month, the NASA feature "PACE Celebrates National Ocean Month With Colorful Views of the Planet" highlights the the views of Earth and informative observations provided by the... https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/142410/guest@my.umbc.edu/9f4cabd444475e7176179ac4e69a8c85/api/pixel esi Earth and Space Institute https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/esi https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/xsmall.png?1708376163 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/original.png?1708376163 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/xxlarge.png?1708376163 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/xlarge.png?1708376163 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/large.png?1708376163 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/medium.png?1708376163 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/small.png?1708376163 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/xsmall.png?1708376163 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/124/0edf78e65ae95730e0c3687aa55486c5/xxsmall.png?1708376163 Earth and Space Institute https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/xxlarge.jpg?1718138116 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/xlarge.jpg?1718138116 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/large.jpg?1718138116 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/medium.jpg?1718138116 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/small.jpg?1718138116 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/xsmall.jpg?1718138116 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/142/410/169d2ba2f7874b75297756629097cab9/xxsmall.jpg?1718138116 3 0 false Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:37:35 -0400 ESI GRAs present posters during UMBC's 8th EDS On Monday, April 29th, as part of UMBC's Earth Day Symposium agenda, students presented posters on their research. Among those who presented were two graduate research assistants affiliated with ESI who are working within UMBC's Physics Department. They discussed their research and next steps with attendees to the poster session. Congratulations on your hard work! 

Rachel Smith with her poster.

Greema Regmi with her poster.

(Photos: A. Houghton.)


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Among the many events held on Monday, April 29th, during UMBC's 8th Earth Day Symposium, was Vanderlei Martins’ presentation, “The PACE Satellite.” Dr. Martins was the first of five speakers who would contribute to the symposium. He is the Director of the Earth and Space Institute at UMBC, a Physics professor, and a scientist with GESTAR II. Dr. Martins and his team at UMBC built the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter-2 (HARP2), which is currently onboard the PACE satellite (read more about HARP2 and the PACE launch here).

The PACE satellite consists of three instruments, which are complementary: the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), HARP2, and the Spectro-polarimeter for Planetary Exploration one (SPEX-one). Originally, PACE would have only carried the OCI. However, with these three instruments’ combined measurements, the data provided will be robust and will “provide worldwide usage of information,” according to Dr. Martins. Learn more about these three instruments here. He emphasized that PACE has “unprecedented capabilities covering ocean ecology, aerosol (amount and type), and land surface properties.” 

Dr. Vanderlei Martins presenting "The PACE Satellite."

(Photo: A. Houghton.)

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