GESTAR II members recognized at 610AT Awards Ceremony
On December 6, 2022, the Code 610-Atmospheres
(610-AT) Peer Awards Ceremony was held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Among the awardees were several GESTAR II members. Congratulations to all!
Andrew Swanson (614/UMBC) and
Reem Hannun (614/UMBC) were recipients of the Distinguished Contribution Group Award: For the successful first flight of the NO2 sonde instrument.
Sujung Go (613/UMBC) received the Best Science Nugget Award: For conveying succinctly in the ESRP format the importance and innovation of the ability to retrieve dust composition from space.
Ghassan Taha (614/MSU) received the Best Science Nugget Award: For succinctly summarizing in the ESRP format the use of OMPS LP aerosol measurements to track the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic plume in the upper and middle stratosphere.
Tianle Yuan (613/UMBC) received the Best Senior Author Publication Award: For leading a
cutting-edge paper connecting the traffic of ships to their cloud imprint.
Jerald Ziemke (614/MSU) received the Best Senior Author Publication Award: For work over several decades on creating NASA's satellite-based tropospheric ozone dataset used in his
2022 JRL manuscript.
Congratulations to
Badrul Hasan, who recently graduated with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
Stephen Guimond, associate research professor of physics, was his advisor and
Meilin Yu, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was co-advisor. On November 22, 2022, Mr. Hasan successfully defended his thesis titled "A Study of the Impact of Numerical Dissipation on Mesoscale Simulations of Hurricane Intensification with Observational Heating." This work analyzed the computational fluid dynamics of the hurricane rapid intensification process. More details can be found in this
publication, led by Mr. Hasan. He will continue to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UMBC.
In 2020, Denis Felikson
(615/MSU), then a new Research Scientist with the GESTAR Cooperative Agreement,
was involved with the initial formulation of a project called the Earth
Information System, led by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Originally, the
team (then led by Christa
Peters-Lidard, NASA GSFC Acting Chief Scientist) was funded for a six-month
pilot study in 2021, followed by a full year of funding in 2022. Currently, the
team is working on a follow-on proposal for long-term funding. Dr. Felikson,
now Assistant Research Scientist with GESTAR II, was recently selected to serve
as part of the leadership team for the Earth Information System as Deputy
Project Scientist, a role that will allow him to help shape the vision of this aspirational project. "EIS is an ambitious project that serves as a pathfinder for realizing
NASA's vision of open source science while improving the availability and
accessibility of Earth science information through comprehensive Earth system
integration and synthesis," says Sujay Kumar (GSFC),
EIS Project Scientist.
The Earth Information System (EIS) seeks to harness the full potential of NASA's scientific expertise, technology, and stakeholders to fully understand our changing planet as one Earth System. It is a bold project that cuts across the traditional silos within which Earth science is performed, pioneering a transformative way of conducting interdisciplinary Earth System Science, with a team of over 100 experts in scientific research, applied sciences, and data systems working together under one project to advance our holistic understanding of the Earth System and to synthesize that understanding into actionable information.
One pillar of the EIS project is to implement NASA's Open-Source Science principles in order to deliver reproducible, transparent, accessible, and inclusive science. The goal is to eliminate barriers for both researchers and stakeholders to NASA information and the analyses that underpin that information. The EIS team deployed models of Earth system components, like ice sheets, oceans, and terrestrial hydrology, on new cloud computing environments along with interactive notebooks that lower the barrier for other researchers to set up, run the models, and analyze their outputs. The models and the interactive notebooks run on cloud platforms like the Science Managed Cloud Environment (SMCE) and the Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) platform, and the EIS project has been a pathfinder in exploring the best ways to use these emerging platforms for Earth system science.
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Ganeshan's proposal selected and article published
Kudos to Manisha Ganeshan (613/MSU)! Dr. Ganeshan recently published a lead author paper in JGR-Atmos.: Ganeshan, M., Y. Yang (GSFC), and S. P. Palm (2022). "Impact of Clouds and Blowing Snow on Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Properties Over Dome C, Antarctica". J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 127(21), doi:10.1029/2022JD036801.
Dr. Ganeshan also is PI on the proposal "Evaluating the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Height derived from GeoOptics GNSS RO Measurements," which was selected for funding (GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite Systems, RO = Radio Occultation). This proposal had been submitted to the NASA ROSES A.43 Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition New Vendor Onramp Evaluation (CNVOE) program. Along with Co-I Joseph Santanello (617/GSFC), she will explore the performance of GeoOptics GNSS measurements in the PBL.
Dr. Ganeshan shared the research goals of this proposal: "This proposal seeks to evaluate the quality of commercial remote sensing measurements, specifically GeoOptics Level 2 refractivity profiles, and to conduct a thorough investigation of its usability for deriving and studying the planetary boundary layer (PBL) height variability in extratropical land, ocean, and polar regions.
The PBL hosts all exchanges between the atmosphere and the surface, thus acting as a conduit between the surface and free atmosphere. Knowledge of the PBL height (PBLH) is critical for understanding weather and climate, water and energy cycles, biogeochemical cycles, aerosol and cloud chemistry, impacts of climate change on ecological systems, among other areas of Earth Science research. Improved PBL measurements from space are a high priority for NASA and the
NASA Decadal Survey Incubation program."
Weir, B.
(610.1/MSU), Oda, T., Ott, L. E., and Schmidt, G. A. (2022). Assessing progress toward the Paris Climate Agreement from
space, Environ. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac998c.
Biswas, N.K. (617/UMBC), Stanley, T.A. (617/UMBC),
Kirschbaum, D.B., Amatya, P.M. (617/UMBC), Meechaiya, C., Poortinga, A.
and Towashiraporn, P. (2022). A dynamic landslide hazard monitoring framework
for the Lower Mekong Region, Front. Earth Sci., https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1057796.
Strode, S. A. (614/MSU), Taha,
G. (614/MSU), Oman, L. D., Damadeo, R., Flittner, D., Schoeberl, M., Sioris, C. E.,
and Stauffer, R. (2022). SAGE III/ISS ozone and NO2 validation using diurnal scaling
factors, Atmos. Meas. Tech., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-6145-2022.
Schoeberl, M., Wang, Y., Ueyama, R., Taha, G. (614/MSU), Jensen, E., Yu, W. (2022). Analysis and impact of the
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai stratospheric water vapor plume, Geophys. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100248. Please note: Schoeberl et al. also was featured in an EOS Research Spotlight.
Join us for a virtual seminar by
Dr. Jose D. Fuentes, PSU Associate Director, GESTAR II and Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University. His talk is titled "Arctic Climate Change and Cycles of Trace Gases."
Date and Time: Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 11:00am
Abstract:
The Arctic is experiencing the most dramatic environmental changes. Manifestations of such changes are the loss of perennial ice and the formation of thinner, seasonal ice. Such changes are causing a wide range of impacts and feedbacks on regional climate and chemical cycles, including greater amounts of water vapor transport from winter--time leads to the overlying atmospheric boundary layer. Changes in sea ice impact the chemistry and the chemical composition of the lower atmosphere as well as aerosol physical and chemical composition. Therefore, this presentation will describe the features of field campaigns to advance knowledge of emissions, transport, and chemistry of halogens such as chlorine, bromine, and iodine above the snowpack on the tundra near Utqiagvik, Alaska. Field campaigns took place during the last ten years and provided key data sets to assess the influences of atmospheric thermodynamics and turbulence on halogen chemistry and thus estimate the impacts of halogens on the composition of the Arctic boundary layer. Air turbulence and chemistry measurements were made on fixed flux towers above the frozen tundra and on aircrafts.
Biographies:
Dr. Jose D. Fuentes is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Pennsylvania State University where he teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in Micrometeorology, Biometeorology, and Air Chemistry. His research focuses on surface-atmosphere interactions related to emissions, turbulent transport, surface deposition, and chemistry of reactive gases and aerosols. Since 2000, he and his students have investigated the role of the snowpack in the emissions and surface deposition of ozone, halogens, mercury, and aerosols. To complete his field studies, he employs flux towers and tethered balloons which have been deployed at several sites in the Arctic. He has also contributed to the development of numerical models to investigate the chemistry of halogens and the aerosol formation in the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer during the springtime. He serves on many advisory boards, including the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), which is a congressionally mandated advisory committee to the National Science Foundation. As the current chair of CEOSE, he seeks to identify national strategies to broaden the participation of under-represented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
For more information on the GESTAR II Seminar Series, click
here.