PACE Pre-launch Science Briefing
Speaker 1: Kate Calvin, chief scientist and senior climate advisor, NASA
Remarks on how NASA studies our home planet, including changes in a warming climate, for the benefit of humanity.
Speaker 2: Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division director, NASA
Remarks on NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellite, monitoring our system of systems. How PACE will fit in with the fleet, adding to and complementing what’s already in orbit.
Speaker 3: Jeremy Werdell, PACE project scientist, NASA
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Meet PACE! 20 years of development, two days til launch. Introduce ocean color and how studying it and phytoplankton will lead to discoveries in ocean health and climate impacts.
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Speaker 3: Jeremy Werdell, PACE project scientist, NASA
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Speaker 4: Andy Sayer, PACE atmospheric scientist, NASA
PACE will track aerosols and clouds – turning modelled data into observational maps. Tracking air quality, answering questions about cloud formation and the connections between ocean and atmosphere.
Speaker 5: Natasha Sadoff, Satellite Needs Program Manager, NASA
Scientists and resource managers are standing by to put PACE data to work: here’s how.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producers
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Kate Ramsayer (Telophase)
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Presenters
- Jeremy Werdell (NASA/GSFC)
- Andrew Sayer (USRA)
- Erin Urquhart Jephson (SSAI)
- Katherine Calvin (NASA HQ)
- Karen St. Germain (NASA)
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Communications lead
- Jacob Richmond (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 9:14 PM EST.
