News & Highlights

Doyeon Ahn (614/MSU) is lead author of the 2025 paper "Satellite-Based Analysis of CO2 Emissions From Global Cities: Regional, Economic, and Demographic Attributes," co-authored by GESTAR II...

On Tuesday, August 26, 2025, two of our 2025 Visiting Fellows gave virtual presentations on the research projects they conducted with their mentors; additionally, a UMBC student who recently...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Assaf Anyamba, GESTAR II Senior Research Scientist, UMBC/610. His talk is titled "Global ENSO Teleconnections and Vector-borne Disease Outbreak Patterns."...

On Monday, September 29th, the 2025 Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) Annual Peer Awards ceremony was held at NASA GSFC's Building 33, Room H114. The following GESTAR II researchers...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Stephanie Shaw, Senior Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Her talk is titled "Air Quality Aspects of the Electric Power Industry:...

Throughout the past few months, GESTAR II scientists have led or co-authored various publications. We invite you to peruse this selection. Ahn, D. Y. (614/MSU), D. L. Goldberg, F. Liu...

The Earth Observatory Image of the Day for August 25, 2025, "A Sea Aswirl With Chlorophyll," provides a look at "PACE’s Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), which extends a decades-long record of...

From the GESTAR II Open House event in mid-July, we present select photos from the day. Thanks for perusing!  (Note, Event invitation designed by Dominique Footes, SURA.) Dr. Dan Laughlin,...

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...