News & Highlights

GESTAR II Researchers receive Code 613 Awards

On Friday, February 2, 2024, the NASA GSFC Climate and Radiation Laboratory (Code 613) held its annual winter party and award ceremony. Among the awardees were several GESTAR II scientists. Each...

Posted: February 2, 2024, 2:42 PM

Cetinic' and "FREE SOLO's" Honnold discuss PACE mission

Professional rock climber Alex Honnold, who was the subject of the 2018 Academy Award-winning documentary FREE SOLO, discusses the upcoming PACE mission with Ivona Cetinic' (616/MSU). Watch the...

Posted: February 2, 2024, 12:24 PM

GESTAR II Seminar Series, February 8th at 11:00am

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Greg McFarquhar, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High Impact Weather Research and Operations and faculty member of the School of...

Posted: February 2, 2024, 10:13 AM

Huemmrich profiled in People of PACE blog

In a recent NASA Goddard blog post for the PACE mission, "People of PACE: Fred Huemmrich Plants the Seeds of Inspiration," K. Fred Huemmrich (618/UMBC) is profiled. He provides insight to his...

Posted: January 30, 2024, 5:12 PM

Soto Ramos presents on PACE in Goddard's Engage Series

"Organized by the Goddard Office of Communications, the Engage series explains Goddard's work in a fun and nontechnical setting." On Friday, January 26, 2024, in the first Engage presentation of...

Posted: January 30, 2024, 3:07 PM

SED Poster Party 2024 - Photo Gallery

On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, several GESTAR II researchers presented their posters at the SED Poster Party at NASA GSFC, which was very well attended. Some of the researchers we spoke with...

Posted: January 26, 2024, 2:30 PM

GESTAR II Seminar Series, January 23, 2024 at 1:00pm

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Paquita Zuidema, Professor and Chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami. Her talk is titled "Smoke-cloud-land-meteorology couplings...

Posted: January 18, 2024, 1:09 PM

Several GESTAR II members authors of PACE paper in RSE

The paper "Phytoplankton composition from sPACE: Requirements, opportunities, and challenges," published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, is currently available online, prior to...

Posted: January 16, 2024, 3:45 PM

Congratulations to Arteaga Quintero on Promotion

Congratulations to Lionel Arteaga Quintero (610.1/UMBC), who recently was promoted from Assistant Research Scientist to Associate Research Scientist within GESTAR II. We asked him about his roles...

Posted: January 4, 2024, 10:40 AM