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Annu Al Repor T 201 2-201 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013 ANNUAL Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations GESTAR STAFF Abuhassan, Nader Kowalewski, Matthew Stoyanova, Silvia Achuthavarier, Deepthi Kreutzinger, Rachel Strahan, Susan Anyamba, Assaf Kucsera, Tom Strode, Sarah Aquila, Valentina Kurtz, Nathan Sun, Zhibin Barahona, Donifan Kurylo, Michael Swanson, Andrew Beck, Jefferson Lait, Leslie Taha, Ghassan Bell, Benita Lamsal, Lok Tan, Qian Belvedere, Debbie Laughlin, Daniel Tao, Zhining Bindschadler, Robert Lawford, Richard Tian, Lin Bridgman, Tom Lee, Dong Min Ungar, Stephen Brucker, Ludovic Leidner, Allison Unninayar, Sushel Brunt, Kelly Lentz, Michael Utku, Cuneyt Buchard-Marchant, Virginie Lewis, Katherine Vikhliaev, Yury Burger, Matthew Li, Feng Wang, James Celarier, Edward Li, Xiaowen Weaver, Clark Chang, Yehui Liang, Qing Wen, Guoyong Chase, Tyler Liao, Liang Wiessinger, Scott Chen, Tiexi Lim, Young-Kwon Willard, Sean Chern, Jiun-Dar Lin, Xin Wright, Ernest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chettri, Samir Lyu, Chen-Hsuan (Joseph) Xu, Hui Cohen, Jarrett Majedi, Amir Yang, Weidong Colombo, Oscar Malespin, Charles Yang, Yuekui Cote, Charles Marchant, Benjamin Yasunari, Teppei Damoah, Richard Margolis, Hank Zeng, Xiping De Lannoy, Gabrielle J. M. McBride, Patrick Zhang, Qingyuan De Matthaeis, Paolo McGrath-Spangler, Erica Zhang, Yan Diehl, Thomas Meyer, Kerry Zhou, Jiansong Draper, Clara Mohammed, Priscilla Zhou, Yaping Duberstein, Genna Molnar, Gyula Ziemke, Jerald Eck, Thomas Mounirou Torre, Ally Zuber, Ryan Errico, Ronald Norris, Peter Farhadi, Leila Olsen, Mark Administrative Staff Fitzgibbons, Ryan Pan, Xiaohua Follette-Cook, Melanie Pasolli, Edoardo Arens, Jeff Gallagher, Dan Patadia, Falguni Baird, Steve Garner, Robert Peng, Jinzheng Dalnekoff, Julie Gasso, Santiago Phillips, Jackie Foster, Sarah Gatebe, Charles Plummer, Joel Harris, Monique Gautam, Ritesh Potter, Gerald Houghton, Amy Gong, Jie Prive, Nikki John, Sharon Grecu, Mircea Radcliff, Matthew Mobley, Lanisha Gupta, Pawan Randles, Cynthia Morgan, Dagmar Ham, Yoo-Geun Reale, Oreste Potts, Lisa Han, Mei Retscher, Christian Queen, Lynette Handleman, Michelle Reyes, Malissa Richardson, Linda Holdaway, Daniel Rousseaux, Cecile Samuel Kerr, Elamae Huang, Jingfeng Sayer, Andrew Hurwitz, Margaret Schiffer, Robert Jethva, Hiren Schindler, Trent Technical Editor Jiang, Le Selkirk, Henry Jin, Jianjun Sharghi, Kayvon Amy Houghton Johnson, Leann Shi, Jainn Jong (Roger) Jusem, Juan Carlos Sippel, Jason Graphic Design Kekesi, Alex Smith, Sarah Erin Carver Kim, Dongchul Soebiyanto, Radina Kim, Hyokyung Sokolowsky, Eric Kim, Kyu-Myong Southard, Adrian Korkin, Sergey Starr, Cynthia Kostis, Helen-Nicole Steenrod, Stephen TABLE of CONTENTS TABLE Letter from GESTAR Director..................................4 The GESTAR Team....................................................5 Technical Research.................................................6 Delivering the Message........................................62 Products................................................................75 Student Engagements/EPO.................................77 Awards...................................................................79 Supporting External Travelers.............................81 Acronyms...............................................................82 Storytelling Highlight...........................................86 Image: The IRIS spacecraft. (T. Chase) LETTER from GESTAR DIRECTOR June 10, 2013 We are pleased to offer this second NASA Goddard Earth Sciences, Technology, and Research (GESTAR) Cooperative Agreement Annual Report for the period: 11 May 2012 – 10 May 2013. NASA awarded GESTAR to the team of Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Morgan State University (MSU), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), I.M. Systems Group (IMSG), Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and Ball Aerospace for a period of fi ve years (2011-2016). During this second year, Johns Hopkins University researchers joined the GESTAR community at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Additionally, technical staff from Global Science and Technology, Inc. (GST) joined GESTAR, supporting NASA’s Scientifi c Visualization Studio and other outreach efforts. This report summarizes multidisciplinary efforts of GESTAR-affi liated researchers, technologists, students, visitors and staff. We describe accomplishments for the past year and technical progress in all research areas identifi ed in the GESTAR Annual Research Program Plan, submitted to NASA on 31 July 2012. Within the report and its appendices are: a) abstracts and papers published by GESTAR-affi liated staff; b) GESTAR-affi liated presentations at conferences, seminars, and workshops; c) education and public outreach engagements by GESTAR-affi liated staff; d) awards received by GESTAR- affi liated staff; e) engagement of GESTAR-affi liated staff in reviewing/advising/ committee participation activities, and; f) travel/meeting support provided by GESTAR to NASA. This past year has been another good year. Everyone at GESTAR worked diligently with our NASA sponsors/collaborators to ensure success of critically important projects that support NASA’s mission in Earth Sciences and beyond. Their efforts have resulted in many substantive accomplishments, highlighted in this report. Our sincerest thanks go out to all for their commitment and professionalism. We look forward to applying our knowledge to the upcoming year to ensure GESTAR exceeds expectations, yet again. William Corso Joseph Whittaker Darryn Waugh Le Jiang 4 | GESTAR Annual Report 2012 - 2013 The GESTAR TEAM Image: BETTII. (M. Lentz) GESTAR MANAGMENT TEAM GESTAR Director: Dr. William Corso Associate Director: Dr. Darryn Waugh, JHU Associate Director: Dr. Joseph Whittaker, MSU Associate Director: Dr. Le Jiang, ISMG Business Manager: Ms. Dagmar Morgan Founded in 1969, Universities Space Research Association Morgan State University (MSU), founded in 1867, is one of the (USRA) is an independent nonprofi t research corporation that nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HB- conducts basic and applied research and operates programs and CUs). The University offers a comprehensive program of studies national facilities for government and industry, many of which are at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Morgan State has in support of NASA. USRA currently manages 20 programs and continuously served the community with distinction while meeting facilities that employ more than 400 scientifi c, technical, and the educational needs of an increasingly diverse society. Desig- professional staff. With 105 university members, USRA provides nated as Maryland’s Public Urban University, MSU will continue a unique and special value that other research organizations do its prominence in Maryland’s educational future. In many fi elds, not. Only PhD-granting universities in Earth and space sciences particularly in engineering and the sciences, MSU accounts for with demonstrated outstanding research abilities are eligible for large percentages of degrees received by African-Americans from membership in USRA. USRA’s mission is to advance Earth and Maryland institutions. At the graduate level, it awards doctoral space sciences and exploration through innovative research, and master’s degrees in several selected fi elds. The University technology, and educational programs, and to develop and oper- has made a major commitment to academic excellence, investing ate premier facilities and programs by involving universities, the substantial resources to enhance its research infrastructure, and private sector, and governments. stimulate research development in a broad range of disciplines, especially STEM. In addition to the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Founded in 1876 as the fi rst research university in the United School of Engineering complex, MSU has the Estuarine Research States, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is one of the lead- Center, the Richard N. Dixon Science Research Center, a state- ing research institutions in the nation. JHU is composed of of-the-art research facility that provides space for specialized nine academic divisions, including Arts & Sciences, Education, research laboratories in physics, chemistry, and biology, and the Engineering, the School of Public Health, plus JHU Applied Physics modern Murphy Fine Arts Center. Laboratory. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is the home of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. A major I.M. Systems Group (IMSG) has over 15 years of providing envi- focus within this department is global change science, with active ronmental, scientifi c, technical, and I support to the US govern- research groups in atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrospheric sci- ment as well as environmental services to government agencies ences as well as planetary geodynamics. The department main- in Africa and Asia. Over 60% of its workforce has advanced tains state-of-the-art design and engineering facilities, as well as degrees with over 100 PhD researchers. IMSG is NOAA’s largest laboratories for high performance computing and large-scale data support service, with its largest concentration of researchers and analysis that are also being used for Earth system science. JHU’s support scientists in the Satellite Applications Research Center Whiting School of Engineering consists of faculty who possess and the NWS Environmental Modeling Center. experimental, computational, robotic and modeling capabilities. Additionally, faculty at the School of Public Health
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