News & Highlights

On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, GESTAR II held its annual Open House event at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Building 33, Room H114, to acknowledge several highlights of its fourth year. We...

GESTAR II congratulates Kamal Aryal, who defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Physics on July 16, 2025. His dissertation was titled "Advancing Aerosol and Ocean Color Remote Sensing Over Coastal...

Kyle Gwirtz (61A/UMBC) is PI on the proposal “Geomagnetic data assimilation with Kalman smoothing: fitting core dynamics to geomagnetic secular variation,” which was selected for funding by NASA’s...

Michael Himes (614/MSU) led a recently published paper titled “Using neural networks for near-real-time aerosol retrievals from OMPS Limb Profiler measurements” in Atmospheric Measurement...

Dr. Don Engel (UMBC/CSST/CSEE) along with ESRA and UMBC personnel arranged for a consultant from Success in Science Career Coaching to meet with scientists in our UMBC NASA-funded cooperative...

Over the past two months, GESTAR II researchers have published as lead author or co-author. Please peruse the following selected articles. Mukherjee, L. (613/UMBC), D. Wu,  N....

Congratulations to Caterina Mogno (614/UMBC) on her promotion to Assistant Research Scientist!  We caught up with Dr. Mogno to learn more about her research and how she spends her free time:...

Fred Huemmrich (618/UMBC) recently co-authored a Remote Sensing paper titled “Unveiling PACE OCI’s hyperspectral terrestrial data products” with Skye Caplan (616/GSFC). The PACE satellite...

As most of us know, the Atlantic hurricane season has begun. NASA provides many tools for forecasters, all levels of government, disaster responders, just to name a few groups who need to know...

Congratulations to Earth scientist Dr. Compton Tucker (UMBC/GSFC), who recently was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. "[His] research has spanned nearly 50 years at NASA’s Goddard Space...