NASA announced on Thursday last week that both the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø STRIVE team and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-affiliated EDGE team were selected to lead satellite missions to better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters.
A project led by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to better understand our atmosphere’s complexity is a finalist for NASA’s next generation of Earth-observing satellites. STRIVE will receive $5 million to conduct a one-year concept study, and then will hear whether it is selected for launch.
On Feb. 7, 2021, a wall of debris and water barreled down river valleys in India, destroyed two hydropower facilities and left more than 200 people dead or missing. A self-organized coalition of 53 scientists from 14 countries, including researchers from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, worked nonstop following the disaster to investigate the cause, scope and impacts.
Research projects funded for 2020 by EarthLab’s Innovation Grants Program will study how vegetation might reduce pollution, help an Alaskan village achieve safety and resilience amid climate change, organize a California river’s restoration with tribal involvement, compare practices in self-managed indigenous immigrant communities and more.
Three ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø graduate students are among this year’s recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
A satellite technique provides a new way to monitor the status of more than 1,200 mountain glaciers in the lower 48 states.