Elizabeth, Author at NASA Earth Science and Technology Office

06/03/2020

NASA Fosters Innovative Ways to Understand Biodiversity

Four NASA projects created new, virtual portals that bring into focus biodiversity information to help inform scientists, land managers and decision makers around the world regarding the status and health of terrestrial ecosystems.

05/14/2020

Tiny NASA Satellite Captures First Image of Clouds and Aerosols

The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) CubeSat achieved “first light” on April 16. The tiny satellite sent back its very first image over Europe with bright splashes of colors defining clouds and aerosols, which are tiny particles in the atmosphere.

05/01/2020

Novel Technology Sets the Stage for a New Way to Monitor Earth

Engineers and scientists partnered to create a small satellite concept that would employ just one lidar, a miniaturized spectrometer, and artificial intelligence to strategically monitor changes on Earth in the Spring 2020 edition of Cutting Edge.

04/22/2020

Looking 50 Years in the Future with NASA Earth Scientists

NASA-funded researchers talk about what Earth science will look like in 50 years to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

04/21/2020

On Earth Day 50, NASA Researchers Look To the Future

Jeanne Holm and others discuss Earth Day at 50. Holm recently won funding from NASA’s Advanced Information Systems Technology program to create a new platform to monitor and improve air quality across the planet.

04/14/2020

NASA Is Where the Wild Things Are

Researchers and conservationists around the world are using data and images from NASA satellite instruments to manage and track living creatures of all kinds.

04/09/2020

NASA Calls on Gamers, Citizen Scientists to Help Map World’s Corals

NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems.

04/02/2020

New NASA Radar Looks to Monitor Volcanoes and Earthquakes from Space

The CubeSat Imaging Radar for Earth Sciences, or CIRES, aims to revolutionize how we monitor volcanoes and earthquakes from space.

03/04/2020

Shoebox-Sized Instrument Aims High to Look at Ice Clouds

A new instrument is expected to give researchers unprecedented insights into the ice crystals that form the wispy clouds that float high in the sky and play an important, but little-understood role in Earth’s climate.