Earth Science

General
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Internships
On August 12-13, 24 students from the West Coast cohort of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) gathered at University of California, Irvine (UCI) to present their final research to a room of mentors, professors, family, and NASA personnel.
Posted September 26, 2024
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Oceans
Sea Level Rise
Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team. This amount […]
Posted September 25, 2024
General
Earth Science
Oceans
Internet of Animals The Internet of Animals project combines animal tracking tags with remote sensing, to better understand habitat use and movement patterns.
Posted September 17, 2024
Earth Science
Introduction The NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 mission (ICESat-2), launched September 15, 2018, continues the first ICESat mission, delivering invaluable global altimetry data. Notwithstanding its icy acronym, ICESat-2 can do more than measure ice – in fact, the expanded acronym hints at these wider applications.
Posted September 17, 2024
Earth Science
Introduction Organized by the Science Mission Directorate’s Science Support Office (SSO), NASA hosted its 12th annual Earth Day Celebration event from April 18–19, 2024. For the first time ever, the two-day event was held at NASA Headquarters (HQ) in Washington, DC. The in-person event, which was free and open to the public, featured the newly […]
Posted September 17, 2024
Earth Science
Introduction In the 1990s and early 2000s, an international team of engineers and scientists designed an integrated observatory for atmospheric composition – a bold endeavor to provide unprecedented detail that was essential to understanding how Earth’s ozone (O3) layer and air quality respond to changes in atmospheric composition caused by human a
Posted September 16, 2024
Earth Science
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Science Activation
Sea Level Rise
From July 15-19, 2024, the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub at the Georgia Institute of Technology collaborated with the University of Georgia (UGA) Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Level Changemakers Summer Camp. The camp introduced 14 rising 7th-8th graders to how coastal areas are changing due to sea […]
Posted September 6, 2024
PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment)
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Polar
The PREFIRE mission will help develop a more detailed understanding of how much heat the Arctic and Antarctica radiate into space and how this influences global climate. NASA’s newest climate mission has started collecting data on the amount of heat in the form of far-infrared radiation that the Arctic and Antarctic environments emit to space. […]
Posted September 3, 2024
Earth Science
Science Activation
On August 13, 2024, the publishers of the journal Insects notified authors of three papers selected to receive “Insects 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Insects from January 1 to December 31, 2022.
Posted September 3, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Earth Science
Water on Earth
Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found.
Posted August 28, 2024
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