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Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST)
Team Meeting – June 2013
John A. Haynes, MS Program Manager, Health and Air Quality
Applied Sciences Program
Earth Science Division Science Mission Directorate
NASA Washington, DC USA
jhaynes@nasa.gov
Major News Items in the ESD/ASP
• New Health and Air Quality solicitation expected soon (ROSES 13, Element A.44).
• NASA Health/AQ Sessions at the following conferences:
– AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 2012) – AMS Annual Meeting (Jan 2013) – AWMA Webinar (March 2013) – Public Health Informatics Course at USUHS (March 2013) – American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting (May 2013)
• NASA Earth Science Senior Review (April/May 2013)
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National Earth Observing Strategy Released, 4/19/2013
New USGEO Charter Released, 4/10/2013
Interagency
Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) Launches USGCRP, Climate Change and Human Health Working Group (CCHHG)
MATCH is a searchable clearinghouse that: • Provides access to metadata for health
surveillance, climate, ocean and environmental data sets through a single online geoportal;
• Characterizes and provides links to publicly available Federal data sets, early warning systems, and tools related to health impacts of global climate change;
• Is designed to facilitate and improve the quality of research and data stewardship;
• Includes points of contact and caveats about data; • Was developed through a collaborative interagency
effort of the USGCRP (including the NASA Health and Air Quality Applications Program).
• http://match.globalchange.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page
The MATCH portal launched on May 9, 2013, in conjunction with a new White House Open Data Policy and Executive Order on data management. MATCH was highlighted on the OSTP and CEQ blogs as a model for using Federal open data to address critical societal challenges. These blogs were “re-tweeted” and reposted by NASA. Future goals include adding metadata from additional federal agencies, supporting data overlay, and providing data integration capabilities.
Socioeconomic Impacts: A Primer
Purpose: Inform the Earth observations community and project teams about the language, key principles, techniques, and applications of socioeconomic impact analyses. Released March 2013
ESD/Applied Sciences Awards
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Gold 2013 Hermes Creative Award: Publication/Annual Report Category
Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals
Silver 2013 Communicator Awards: Overall Design Category, Government Category
International Academy of Visual Arts
Annual Report
2013 Geospatial World Excellence Award
Policy Implementation & Knowledge Transfer Geospatial Media & Communications
Program
Communications
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Air Quality Research Campaign Concludes in California NASA's DISCOVER-AQ team completed an intense flight and ground-based air quality research campaign in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California this month. This is the second destination in a five-year mission to study air pollution in the part of the atmosphere where people live and breathe, a region called the boundary layer… Local California air quality regulators were grateful to have the DISCOVER-AQ California 2013 campaign in their neighborhood. "We have surface sites, but data aloft is rare and expensive," said Eileen McCauley, manager of the atmospheric processes research section at California Air Resources Board. "The DISCOVER-AQ mission helps us paint a picture and fill in spaces to improve our understanding of the three dimensions of the atmosphere. Air quality is definitely a 3-D process."
NASA Web Feature issued on February 26, 2013 to highlight the conclusion of the 2nd campaign of DISCOVER-AQ. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/discover-aq/news/DAQ-20130226.html
Upcoming Events
• June 4-6, 2013
– AQAST 5; College Park, MD
• July 9-12, 2013 – NCAR Climate and Health Workshop; Boulder, CO
• July 23-25, 2013
– GEO Community of Practice for Health; Washington, DC
• August 25-29, 2013 – ISPRS Conference; Arlington, VA
• September (date TBD)
– NASA Health and Air Quality Annual Meeting; Minneapolis, MN • November 12-13, 2013
– GPM Applications Workshop; College Park, MD
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For More Information…
http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/conference/phconference_np_home.html
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