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Principal Investigator
Robert Griffin
The Belize Barrier Reef System is a fragile environment where water health is highly important, and it is threatened by upstream human activities. The project team focuses on evaluating the water quality of Belize’s watersheds and the Belize Barrier Reef Lagoon in relation to human...
Principal Investigator
Andrew Hansen
Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru are the most biodiverse countries in the world, and they are part of the Amazon Basin, a major conservation site. The project team is focusing on the specific needs of each country to develop a system that can forecast and respond...
Principal Investigator
Robert Jones
Palau, a small island state in the Pacific Ocean, relies heavily on seafood for the food security of the citizens. Aquaculture is emerging in Palau as a strategy to supplement seafood production from wild resources, but farming practices can threaten the fragile marine ecosystems if...
Principal Investigator
Daniel Juhn
The Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA) initiative was part of the GEO Symposium in June 2021 and was highlighted in the biodiversity session. Conversations are ongoing within the GEO community on aligning indicators, especially biodiversity indicators, so that they can be used to directly...
Principal Investigator
Julie A. Haggerty
In support of the weather component of the NASA Applied Sciences Program, the proposed effort will adapt satellite-derived cloud microphysical products for detection of a recently recognized aviation hazard, jet-engine powerloss in deep convective clouds. As described in a recent Wall Street Journal article, these...
Principal Investigator
David Johnson
Aircraft inject exhaust particles and water vapor into the upper atmosphere that can produce persistent """condensation trails"""" (contrails) capable of altering the atmosphere's radiative balance and contributing to global warming. The IPCC's recent report, """"Mitigation of Climate Change"""", suggests that aviation may contribute 2-8% of...
Principal Investigator
Thorsten Markus
The Arctic climate system is experiencing dramatic changes. One of the most dramatic and very public changes is the reduction in the summertime sea ice cover. The IPCC models predict a further decrease in sea ice cover with a potentially ice-free Arctic in 2100 (IPCC...
Principal Investigator
Barbara Gail Brown
This investigation will make use of unique NASA observations of cloud properties from A Train instruments to improve decision making for aviation applications. The key instruments to be used include the CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar, CALIPSO?s active lidar, and Aqua?s MODIS imaging spectroradiometer. The satellite...
Principal Investigator
John R. Mecikalski
This proposal requests funding to leverage NASA assets to continue optimizing a GOES convective initiation (CI) 0-1 hr nowcasting algorithm for performance across various ""convective regime"" types, and to transition the algorithm into a fielded FAA decision support system (DSS). The goal is to use...
Principal Investigator
John K Williams
Applications of National Priority: Aviation, Energy Management, Air Quality Turbulence is widely recognized as the leading cause of injuries to flight attendants and passengers on commercial air carriers. However, while a state-of-the-art, automated CONUS Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) system has been developed by the Federal...