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Annu Al Report 20 17–20 ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 ANNUAL Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations GESTAR STAFF Hanson, Heather Ng, Joy Yao, Tian Holdaway, Dan Norris, Peter Zhang, Cheng Achuthavarier, Deepthi Humberson, Winnie Nowottnick, Ed Zhang, Qingyuan Ahamed, Aakash Ibrahim, Amir Oda, Tom Zhou, Yaping Amatya, Pukar Jackson, Katrina Oddo, Perry Ziemke, Jerald Andrew, Andrea Jentoft-Nilsen, Marit Olsen, Mark Anyamba, Assaf Jepsen, Rikke Orbe, Clara ADMINISTRATIVE Aquila, Valentina Jethva, Hiren Patadia, Falguni STAFF Armstrong, Amanda Jin, Daeho Patel, Kiran Arnold, Nathan Jin, Jianjun Paynter, Ian Kuehn (Ball), Carol Barker, Ryan Jo, MinJeong Peng, Jinzheng Berard, Russell Beck, Jefferson Johnson, Leann Potter, Gerald Espiritu, Angie Bell, Benita Ju, Junchang Prescott, Ishon Gardner, Jeanette Bensusen, Sally Keating, Shane Prive, Nikki Houghton, Amy Bollian, Tobias Kekesi, Alex Radcliff, Matthew Morgan, Dagmar Bridgman, Tom Keller, Christoph Rama, Xhafer Nourieh, Carine Brucker, Ludovic Khan, Maudood Reale, Oreste Samuel Henry, Elamae Buchard, Virginie Kim, Dongchul Resende de Sousa, Carvalho, David Kim, Dongjae Celio Technical Editor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Castellanos, Patricia Kim, Hyokyung Rousseaux, Cecile Amy Houghton Cede, Alexander Kim, Min-Jeong Sayer, Andrew Cetinic, Ivona Knowland, Emma Schiffer, Robert Graphic Designer Chang, Yehui Kolassa, Jana Schindler, Trent Ada Ruiz/Amika Studio Chatterjee, Abhishek Korkin, Sergey Seadler, Abigail Cheung, Samson Kostis, Helen-Nicole Seegers, Bridget Chittimalli, Sandeep Kowalewski, Matthew Selkirk, Henry Cho, Nayeong Kucsera, Tom Shi, Jainn J. (Roger) Cohen, Jarrett Kurylo, Michael Shi, Yingxi Collow, Allison Ladd, David Soebiyanto, Radina Colombo, Oscar Lait, Leslie Sokolowsky, Eric Concha, Javier Lamsal, Lok Soldo, Yan Craig, Susanne Lawford, Rick Southard, Adrian Damoah, Richard Lee, Dongmin Stanley, Thomas de Matthaeis, Paolo Lee, Eunjee Starr, Cynthia Divakarla, Murty Lee, SeungKuk Steenrod, Stephen Duberstein, Genna Lee, Yuni Strahan, Susan Durham, Kevin Lentz, Michael Strode, Sarah Eck, Thomas Li, Feng Suarez, Max Elkins, Kelly Li, Xiaowen Swanson, Andrew Errico, Ronald Liang, Qing Taha, Ghassan Fauchez, Thomas Liao, Jin Tan, Jackson Fitzgibbons, Ryan Liao, Liang Tao, Zhining Follette-Cook, Melanie Lim, Young-Kwon Teinturier, Samuel Freitas, Saulo Lipschultz, Frederic Tian, Lin Gallagher, Dan Liu, Fei Trapp, Cindy Ganeshan, Manishan Liu, Junhua Trossman, David Garner, Robert Longo de Freitas, Karla Ungar, Stephen Gassó, Santiago Lyu, Cheng Hsuan Unninayar, Sushel Gatebe, Charles (Joseph) Van Oevelen, Peter Girotto, Manuela Malanoski, Mark Vervoort, Fernande Gong, Jie Marchant, Benjamin Vikhliaev, Yury Graham, Steven Masters, Joshua Wang, James Grecu, Mircea McGrath-Spangler, Erica Ward, Alan Gupta, Pawan McLean, Debbi Ward, Lauren Gutierrez, Adriana Mersmann, Kathryn Weir, Brad Manrique Miller, Kevin Wen, Guoyong Han, Mei Mohammed, Priscilla Wiessinger, Scott Handleman Seff, Monroe, Brian Wright, Ernie Michelle Moran, Amy Yang, Weidong 2 | GESTAR Annual Report 2017 – 2018 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 606.3: Information Science & Technology Research . 8 Code 610: Earth Sciences Division .....................................................9 Code 610.1: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) . .10 Code 612: Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory .................................34 Code 613: Climate and Radiation Laboratory............................................39 Code 614: Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory ..............................48 Code 615: Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory . 69 Code 616: Ocean Ecology Laboratory ..................................................71 Code 617: Hydrological Sciences Laboratory............................................74 Code 618: Biospheric Sciences Laboratory . .81 Code 699: Planetary Environments Laboratory ..........................................84 Delivering The Message . 89 Code 130 (Sponsors: W. Sisler) .......................................................89 Code 606.4 (Sponsor: H. Mitchell) .................................................. 109 Science Communications Support Office (SCSO) (Sponsor: S. Platnick) .................... 120 Products . 129 Maniac Talks .................................................................... 129 NASA Viz........................................................................ 129 Student Engagements And Education/Public Outreach . 131 Student Engagement ............................................................. 131 Education and Public Outreach . 131 Awards and Recognition . 135 Acronyms List . 139 NASA celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Explorer 1, which launched into space on January 31, 1958. Image from “Explorer 1: Celebrat- ing 60 Years of America in Space”; credits include Lau- ren Ward (lead producer) and others. Photo credit: NASA. GESTAR Annual Report 2017– 2018 | 3 On September 18, 2017, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission passed over both Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Jose. Jose at this time is moving northward and east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. On September 9th, Jose began as a Category 4 storm near the Leeward Islands. When GPM passed over Hurricane Maria, its radar showed rain was falling at 6.44 inches/hour. By September 19th, Maria had become a Category 5 storm. From the visualization “Hurricane Jose lingers in the Atlantic as Hurricane Maria approaches Puerto Rico”; credits include Kel Elkins (lead visualizer), Alex Kekesi (visualizer), Ryan Fitzgibbons (lead producer), and others. Photo provided by A. Kekesi. 4 | GESTAR Annual Report 2017 – 2018 Letter from the GESTAR Director We are pleased to offer this seventh NASA Goddard Earth Sciences, Technology, and Research (GESTAR) Cooperative Agreement Annual Report for the period 11 May 2017 – 10 May 2018. During the past year, GESTAR continued to be among major NASA Goddard Space Flight Facility partnerships, led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and including: Morgan State University (MSU), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), I.M. Systems Group (IMSG), and Global Science and Technology (GST). Everyone at GESTAR worked diligently with our NASA sponsors/collaborators to ensure the success of critically important projects that support NASA’s mission in Earth Sciences and beyond. 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 2017. 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. Our sincerest thanks go out to all for their commitment and professionalism. 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 Annual Report 2017 – 2018 | 5 The GESTAR Team 7178 Columbia Gateway Drive Columbia, MD 21046 410-730-2656 www.usra.edu http://gestar.usra.edu Founded in 1969, Universities Space Research Association studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Morgan (USRA) is an independent nonprofit research corporation that State has continuously served the community with distinction conducts basic and applied research and operates programs and while meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse national facilities for government and industry, many of which are society. Designated as Maryland’s Public Urban University, MSU in support of NASA. USRA currently manages 20 programs and will continue its prominence in Maryland’s educational future. In facilities that employ more than 400 scientific, technical, and many fields, particularly in engineering and the sciences, MSU professional staff. With 105 university members, USRA provides accounts for large percentages of degrees received by African a unique and special value that other research organizations do Americans from Maryland institutions. At the graduate level, it not. Only PhD-granting universities in Earth and space sciences awards doctoral and master’s degrees in several selected fields. with demonstrated outstanding research abilities are eligible for The University has made a major commitment to academic membership in USRA. USRA’s mission is to advance Earth and excellence, investing substantial resources to enhance its space sciences and exploration through innovative research, research infrastructure, and stimulate research development in a technology, and educational programs, and to develop and broad range of disciplines, especially STEM. operate premier facilities and programs by involving universities, the private sector, and governments. I.M. Systems Group (IMSG) has over 15 years of providing environmental, scientific, technical support to the US Founded in 1876 as the first research university in the United government, as well as environmental services to government States, The Johns
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