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PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign
The breeze across the California desert kicks up some dust and sand. As a NASA research plane rolls down the runway and prepares for takeoff, its wings vibrate with the gust of wind. It’s a flight day...
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NASA Pilots Use Specialty Suits to Validate Data
Welcome to NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX). We’ve been talking about this validation campaign and now are finally here. “Here” being one of...
View ArticleStephen Broccardo: A ‘STAR’ in PACE Data Collection
Stephen Broccardo, research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, is the principal investigator for the Sea-going Sky-Scanning Sun-tracking Atmospheric Research...
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Brice Grunert: The Great Campaign of the Great Lakes
Brice Grunert, assistant professor at Cleveland State University in Ohio, is a member of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) validation science team. The team, called PACE...
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Joaquim Goes: Gathering Data in the Bay of Bengal
Joaquim Goes, a professor of remote sensing research at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University Climate School, is a member of the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem)...
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Fernanda Henderikx-Freitas: Scanning the Hawaiian Seas
Fernanda Henderikx-Freitas, assistant professor at University of Hawaii, is the lead principal investigator of the PACE validation team called the Hawaii Ocean Time-series program for validation of the...
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Dennis Henry Captures the People – and Hardware – of PACE
Dennis Henry is the PACE project photographer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. One of Denny’s favorite images that he took of PACE. Senior Engineer George Hilton adjusts a...
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People of PACE: Inia Soto Ramos Studies Data from the Sea and Space
Inia M. Soto Ramos is an associate researcher and one of PACE’s data validation leads at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Soto Ramos diving in the West Coast of Puerto Rico....
View ArticlePeople of PACE: Marsha Gosselin Keeps PACE with the Budget
Marsha Gosselin is the financial specialist for PACE at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. What do you do for PACE? I’m the financial specialist for PACE. I started on the...
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People of PACE: Anita Arnoldt is a Team Player, on the Softball Field and in...
Anita Arnoldt is the electrical lead for PACE at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Arnoldt working on pin retention on PACE. Image credit: Dennis Henry What do you do for...
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People of PACE: Amir Ibrahim Understands the Atmosphere to Study the Ocean
Amir Ibrahim is the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) project science lead for atmospheric correction at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. What is your favorite...
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People of PACE: Bridget Seegers Sails the Seas… and Studies Them Too!
Bridget Seegers is an oceanographer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and a team member for NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. Bridget...
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Why the PACE team is nocturnal this week
Editor’s note, Feb. 6, 2024: NASA and SpaceX stood down from PACE’s Feb. 6 launch attempt due to unfavorable weather conditions. Launch is now targeted for 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 7. Editor’s...
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Trivia All About NASA’s Next Earth-Observing Satellite
I’ll take “All About PACE” for 300, please. While not exactly like “Jeopardy!”, PACE trivia is just as fun – and often as challenging! To prepare for the upcoming launch of the Plankton, Aerosol,...
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People of PACE: Fred Huemmrich Plants the Seeds of Inspiration
Fred Huemmrich is a member of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) science and applications team and a research professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. What is...
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People of PACE: Jeroen Rietjens Followed His Passions to SPEXone and PACE
Jeroen Rietjens is an instrument scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) and worked on the SPEXone polarimeter. PACE’s SPEXone instrument is a multi-angle polarimeter. It...
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People of PACE: Natasha Sadoff Connects PACE Data to Benefit Society
Natasha Sadoff is the deputy coordinator for the applications program and PACE. What is your favorite ocean or atmosphere related book or movie? Probably “The Little Mermaid.” It’s a whole other world...
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People of PACE: Jeremy Werdell is the PACE Mission Scientific Conscience
Jeremy Werdell is the project scientist for the PACE mission as well as a biological oceanographer in the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. What is...
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Setting the Stage for PACE at AGU
After years of planning, building, and testing, 2024 is the PACE mission’s time to shine: Launch is slated for February and the team is eagerly awaiting a wealth of ocean- and atmosphere-related data...
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People of PACE: Otto Hasekamp Helps Scientists See Light in a New Light
Otto Hasekamp is a senior scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) and is the science lead for the SPEXOne polarimeter that will be on PACE. What is your favorite atmospheric or...
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