Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Team Meeting Dec 2014

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1 Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Team Meeting Dec 2014 John A. Haynes, MS Program Manager, Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Program Earth Science Division Science Mission Directorate NASA Washington, DC USA 1

2 Launch of OCO-2 on July 2, 2014

3 NASA Earth Science Missions in Operation

4 Major News Items in the ESD/ASP New SERVIR hub launches in Mekong David Green is the new Disasters Program Manager in ESD/AppSci RapidScat Launched September 20 2 ND NPP Applications Workshop held at MSFC November Next Applied Sciences Advisory Committee planned for December at AGU Senior Review Proposals received for ROSES 13, Element A.44 (Health/AQ) POP = 3 years Budget: $3M; 9 proposals selected for award Next solicitation planned for ROSES 2015 NASA Health/AQ Sessions at the following conferences: AMS Annual Meeting (February 2014) AMS Washington Forum (April 2014) OCO-2 Applications Workshop (April 2014) American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting (May 2014) AWMA Annual Meeting (June 2014) ASTMH Annual Meeting (November 2014) AGU Fall Meeting (December 2014) AMS Annual Meeting (January 2015)

5 ROSES 2013 A.44 Selections Jeffrey Pierce Downwind of the Flames: Assessing and predicting wildfire smoke related morbidity using satellites, in-situ measurements and models Colorado State University Christopher Barker Enhanced data-driven decision support for highly invasive vectors University of California Michael Wimberly An Early Warning System for Human West Nile Virus Disease South Dakota State University Luca Delle Monache Chemical Data Assimilation and Analog-Based Uncertainty Quantification to Improve Decision- Making in Public Health and Air Quality National Center for Atmopsheric Research Antarpreet Jutla A Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Approach to Predict Cholera (ROSES-2013) West Virginia University Thomas William Richard Arastoo Talbot Pan Stumpf Pour Biazar Using remote sensing and environmental data to quantify social vulnerabilities to heat stress and strengthen Environmental Public Health Tracking and heat mitigation efforts An Early Warning System for Vector-borne Disease Risk in the Amazon Improved Forecasts of Respiratory Illness Hazard from Gulf of Mexico Red Tide Improving the Representation of Physical Atmosphere in Air Quality Decision Support Systems Used for Emissions Control Strategy Development New York State Department of Health Duke University NOAA Ocean Service University of Alabama in Huntsville

6 NASA Earth Science Division FY15 President s Budget ($ millions) FY13: $1,659.2 (actual) FY14: $1,826.0 (enacted) FY15: $1,770.3 FY16: $1,815.5* FY17: $1,837.6* FY18: $1,861.9* FY19: $1,886.3* * FY16-19 budgets are considered notional. Major Items: President s Budget requests $36.3M for ASP in FY15 rising to $39.7M in FY19 The FY15 budget for Earth Science is consistent with the FY13 and FY14 request this represents continued stability, which is a strong endorsement of NASA in a time of fiscal austerity. OCO-3 (onboard ISS) is cancelled No FY15 budget has been passed yet. CR through December 11.

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8 Communications AQAST Scores Two Covers of Major Publications! 8

9 Communications Major Air Pollution Studies to Converge Over Denver Two NASA aircraft are participating in field campaigns beginning this month in Colorado that will probe the factors leading to unhealthy air quality conditions and improve the ability to diagnose air quality conditions from space. The NASA aircraft will be joined by a research aircraft from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for flights July 16 to Aug. 16 from the Research Aviation Facility maintained by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. What we learn from these flights will help us to better interpret satellite remote sensing of air quality from geostationary orbit in the future," said Jim Crawford (NASA LaRC). "It also will help us to define the best combination of instruments on the ground to connect air quality monitoring networks with satellite information. 9

10 Communications New NASA Images Highlight U.S. Air Quality Improvement Anyone living in a major U.S. city for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in new NASA satellite images unveiled this week that demonstrate the reduction of air pollution across the country. After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major U.S. cities are breathing less nitrogen dioxide. "While our air quality has certainly improved over the last few decades, there is still work to do ozone and particulate matter are still problems," said Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 10

11 Future Orbital Flight Missions through 2020 PRE-DECISIONAL FOR INTERNAL NASA USE ONLY 11

12 NASA Earth Right Now Campaign Your planet is changing. We re on it outreach campaign for NASA Earth Science Six New Earth Science Missions in Just Over a Year: An Opportunity NASA Hasn t Had in Over a Decade! February July 2014 September January 2015 March GPM OCO-2 ISS RapidScat SMAP and CATS (Dec) SAGE-III 12

13 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Questions: John Haynes, Program Manager Health & Air Quality Applications NASA Headquarters / Earth Science JHaynes@nasa.gov