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AEOIP Webinar: Applications and Opportunities of NASA’s upcoming PACE Mission

by ORNL - mthornton » Tue Mar 07, 2023 12:35 pm America/New_York

Join the Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP) for their next webinar of the 2022-2023 series.

What: Webinar: Applications and Opportunities of NASA’s upcoming PACE Mission
When: Wednesday, March 15, 2023, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST
Presenters: Erin Urquhart and Natasha Sadoff
Register to Join: Registration


This seminar will provide a comprehensive review of the planned NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission--an overview of the mission's goals, capabilities, instruments, observation plans, and community engagement activities--and share several real-world applications of PACE data.

The next great contribution from NASA to study the Earth’s atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial ecosystems is the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. PACE, scheduled to launch in January 2024, will carry the hyperspectral Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), as well as two polarimeters (SPEXone and HARP-2). PACE will extend heritage MODIS and VIIRS visible, near-infrared, and shortwave-infrared measurements at 1 km spatial resolution, as well as produce new hyperspectral and polarimetric advanced data products (including observation of clouds and aerosols) not possible with MODIS and VIIRS due to their design and technological limits. PACE will provide an unprecedented view of the entire earth every two days, informing user-driven applications through research and applied science to address societal challenges. Hyperspectral and polarimetric PACE data will leverage emerging remote sensing technologies to advance terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric remote sensing in ways that fulfill real-world needs.

This presentation will provide an overview of the mission's goals, instruments, observation plans, and community engagement activities. We will highlight the capabilities of the novel hyperspectral and multi-angular polarimetric instruments on onboard the PACE observatory, showcasing PACE’s ability to fill societal needs and enable decision-making from space in support of activities such as terrestrial/land-based monitoring, air quality monitoring, disaster response and mitigation of wildfire smoke and volcanic plume events, and advanced aquatic monitoring. Several real-world applications of PACE data will be demonstrated.

With PACE’s high temporal revisit time, the wide-swath OCI and HARP-2 instruments will provide global imagery every two days, enabling fast and efficient air quality monitoring as well as disaster response and mitigation of wildfire smoke and volcanic plume events.

Presenters:
Erin Urquhart (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) serves as Associate Program Manager for the NASA Earth Science Applied Sciences Water Resource program area. She also leads the NASA PACE Project Applications program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a member of the Ocean Ecology Laboratory. Her research focuses on the use of satellite remote sensing data for monitoring and modeling of coastal, estuarine, and inland water quality. Erin engages users and stakeholders to identify their needs and science objectives while exploring innovative and practical applications of satellite Earth observation data. She works at the transdisciplinary boundary of earth science, social science, and public health using principals of Design Thinking and participatory research. Previously, Erin was a research fellow at the US Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) project. She received her doctorate and master’s degrees from The Johns Hopkins University in Earth & Planetary Sciences. She also earned a master’s degree in [Environmental] Public Health from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a professional Design Thinking certificate from Cornell University, and a Creative Leadership certificate from IDEOU.

Natasha Sadoff (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) is the Applications Deputy Coordinator for the NASA PACE mission. Natasha is a geographer who works at the nexus of environmental management, governance, and earth science. She has twelve years of experience connecting data users and stakeholders to resources to improve decision-making and governance in areas such as climate change adaptation and resilience; energy management; air quality; solid waste management; and other areas. She facilitates stakeholder needs assessments, user engagement, training and outreach, and capacity building/development, particularly in the usage of Earth observations for societal benefit. Before coming to NASA, she was a senior scientist at Battelle, where she managed domestic and international environmental governance and capacity building programs for Federal government clients like US EPA and NASA. Natasha’s craziest job ever was working in a mechanic shop in Israel with no knowledge of the local language, Hebrew.

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The AEOIP seeks to foster interagency partnerships to advance Earth Observation-based land management. Our webinar series aims to highlight available Earth Observation missions and data, demonstrate the utility of Earth Observation data to address land management needs, as well as foster and share successful applications of Earth observations into operational land management decision-making. Learn more about us by visiting our website at: https://www.aeoip.com/.

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