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Annu Al R Ep Or T 2015–2016 ANNUAL REPORT 2015–2016 ANNUAL Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations GESTAR Staff Gutierrez, Adriana McLean, Debbi Walker, Monique Achuthavarier, Deepthi Manrique Meyer, Kerry Wang, James Andrew, Andrea Han, Mei Miller, Kevin Ward, Alan Anyamba, Assaf Handleman Seff, Mohammed, Priscilla Weaver, Kristen Aquila, Valentina Michelle Monroe, Brian Weir, Brad Armstrong, Amanda Hanson, Heather Moran, Amy Weissinger, Scott Arnold, Nathan Holdaway, Dan Ng, Joy Wen, Guoyong Barker, Ryan Humberson, Winnie Norris, Peter Wright, Ernie Beck, Jefferson Hurwitz, Margaret Nowottnick, Ed Yang, Weidong Bell, Benita Ibrahim, Amir Oda, Tom Yang, Yuekui Belvedere, Debbie Jackson, Katrina Olsen, Mark Yao, Tian Bensusen, Sally Jentoft-Nilsen, Marit Orbe, Clara Zeng, Xiping Bollian, Tobias Jethva, Hiren Osmanoglu, Batuhan Zhang, Cheng Bridgman, Tom Jin, Daeho Parnell, Lynn Zhang, Qingyuan Brucker, Ludovic Jin, Jianjun Patadia, Falguni Zhou, Yaping Buchard-Marchant, Ju, Junchang Patel, Kiran Ziemke, Jerald Virginie Keating, Shane Pelc, Joanna Burger, Matthew Kekesi, Alex Peng, Jinzheng Cartas – Halota, Anika Keller, Christoph Perez-Ramirez, Daniel Administrative Staff Potter, Gerald Arens, Jeff ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Carvalho, David Kim, Dongchul Castellanos, Patricia Kim, Dongjae (Krystofer) Prescott, Ishon Baird, Steve Cede, Alexander Kim, Hyokyung Privé, Nikki Billingslea, Rhonda Celarier, Ed Kim, Min-Jeong Radcliff, Matthew Davis, Ashley Cetinic, Ivona Knowland, Emma Randles, Cynthia Gardner, Jeanette Chang, Yehui Korkin, Sergey Reale, Oreste Houghton, Amy Chatterjee, Abhishek Kostis, Helen-Nicole Retscher, Christian Kannon, Stacey Cheung, Samson Kowalewski, Matthew Roberts, Sophia Laughlin, Dan Cho, Naeyong Kucsera, Tom Rousseaux, Cecile Matthews, Debra Cohen, Jarrett Kurylo, Michael Sayer, Andrew Moncrieffe, Keyshawn Collow, Allison Ladd, David Schiffer, Robert Morgan, Dagmar Colombo, Oscar Lagomasino, David Schindler, Trent Queen, Lynette Collow, Allison Lait, Leslie Selkirk, Henry Richardson, Linda Concha, Javier Lamsal, Lok Sharghi, Kayvon Samuel Henry, Elamae Cote, Charles Lawford, Rick Shi, Jainn J. (Roger) Damoah, Richard Lee, Dongmin Shi, Yingxi de Matthaeis, Paolo Lee, Eunjee Sippel, Jason Technical Editor De Lannoy, Gabrielle Lee, SeungKuk Soebiyanto, Radina Amy Houghton Draper, Clara Leidner, Allison Sokolowsky, Eric Duberstein, Genna Leitold, Veronika Soldo, Yan Eck, Thomas Lentz, Michael Southard, Adrian Graphic Designer Elkins, Kel Li, Feng Stanley, Thomas Ryan Byrnes Errico, Ronald Li, Xiaowen Starr, Cynthia Estrada (Johnson), Liang, Qing Steenrod, Stephen Leann Liao, Jin Strahan, Susan Fitzgibbons, Ryan Liao, Liang Strode, Sarah Follette-Cook, Melanie Lim, Young-Kwon Suarez, Max Freitas, Saulo Lipschultz, Frederic Swanson, Andrew Gallagher, Dan Liu, Junhua Taha, Ghassan Ganeshan, Manishan Longo, Karla Tao, Zhining Garner, Robert Lyu, Cheng Hsuan Teinturier, Samuel Gassó, Santiago (Joseph) Tian, Lin Gatebe, Charles Malanoski, Mark Trapp, Cindy Girotto, Manuela Malenovsky, Zbynek Trossman, David Gong, Jie Malespin, Charles Ungar, Stephen Graham, Steven Manrique, Adriana Unninayar, Sushel Grecu, Mircea Marchant, Benjamin Van Oevelen, Peter Gupta, Manika Margolis, Hank Veselovskii, Igor Gupta, Pawan McGrath-Spangler, Erica Vikhliaev, Yuri 2 | GESTAR Annual Report 2015 – 2016 TABLE of CONTENTS TABLE Letter from the GESTAR Director . 5 The GESTAR Team . 6 Technical Research . 7 Code 555: Microwave Instrument Technology Branch .....................................7 Code 606.2: High Performance Computing..............................................8 Code 606.3: Information Science & Technology Research..................................9 Code 610: Earth Sciences Division ...................................................10 Code 610.1: Global Modeling And Assimilation Office (GMAO) .............................12 Code 610.2: Global Data Change Center...............................................31 Code 612: Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory ................................33 Code 613: Climate And Radiation Laboratory ...........................................38 Code 614: Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory..............................47 Code 615: Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory ...........................................75 Code 616: Ocean Ecology Laboratory .................................................77 Code 617: Hydrological Sciences Laboratory ...........................................78 Code 618: Biospheric Sciences Laboratory.............................................87 Code 699: Planetary Environments Laboratory..........................................92 Delivering the Message . 95 Code 130: Office of Communications .................................................95 Code 606.4: Scientific Visualization Studio ........................................... 109 Code 606.2: High Performance Computing........................................... 119 Science Program Support Office (SPSO) ............................................. 121 Products . 126 MANIAC Talks.................................................................... 126 NASA Viz........................................................................ 126 Student Engagements and Education/Public Outreach . 127 Student Engagements ............................................................ 127 Education/Public Outreach ........................................................ 131 Awards and Recognition . 135 Acronym List . 137. A mangrove forest in the Rufiji delta. “Not much of the forest looks like it does in this picture.” Quote and photo provided by David Lagomasino, Code 618. GESTAR Annual Report 2015 – 2016 | 3 MAVEN gazes at the setting stars during one of its stellar occultation campaigns, from “Mapping Mars’ Upper Atmosphere”, among credits are Animators: Brian Monroe & Michael Lentz; Visualizer: Kel Elkins; Producer/Editor: Dan Gallagher. From “Mars Gravity Map”, among credits are Visualizer/Animator: Ernie Wright; Video Editor: Dan Gallagher. 4 | GESTAR Annual Report 2015 – 2016 Letter from the GESTAR Director We are pleased to offer this fifth NASA Goddard Earth Sciences, Technology, and Research (GESTAR) Cooperative Agreement Annual Report for the period: 11 May 2015 – 10 May 2016. 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 five years (2011-2016). We welcomed Global Science and Technology (GST) to our team in 2012. During the past year, GESTAR continued to be among major NASA Goddard Space flight Facility partnerships. We completed this fifth (and final) year of the original agreement approximately 16 percent greater (with respect to funding) than was originally anticipated, thanks to the hard work and excellence of the GESTAR staff. 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. This report summarizes multidisciplinary efforts of GESTAR-affiliated researchers, technologists, students, visitors, and staff. We describe accomplishments for the past year and technical progress in all research areas identified in the GESTAR Annual Research Program Plan, submitted to NASA on 31 July 2015. Within the report and its appendices are: a) abstracts and papers published by GESTAR-affiliated staff; b) GESTAR-affiliated presentations at conferences, seminars, and workshops; c) education and public outreach engagements by GESTAR-affiliated staff; d) awards received by GESTAR-affiliated staff; and e) engagement of GESTAR-affiliated staff in reviewing/ advising/committee participation activities. With NASA’s extension of GESTAR for another five years (2016-2021), we look forward to applying our knowledge and experience in the upcoming year to ensure GESTAR continues to exceed all of our expectations. William Corso Director, GESTAR Joseph Whittaker (Associate Director – Morgan State University) Darryn Waugh (Associate Director – Johns Hopkins University) Le Jiang (Associate Director – IMSG) GESTAR Annual Report 2015 – 2016 | 5 The GESTAR Team 7178 Columbia Gateway Drive GESTAR MANAGMENT TEAM Columbia, MD 21046 GESTAR Director ................ Dr. William Corso 410-730-2656 Associate Director .............. Dr. Darryn Waugh, JHU www.usra.edu Associate Director .............. Dr. Joseph Whittaker, MSU Associate Director .............. Dr. Le Jiang, IMSG http://gestar.usra.edu 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 nonprofit research corporation that nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities conducts basic and applied research and operates programs and (HBCUs). The University offers a comprehensive program of national facilities for government and industry, many of which are studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Morgan in support of NASA. USRA currently manages 20 programs and State has continuously served the community with distinction facilities that employ more than 400 scientific, technical, and while meeting the
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