News & Highlights

NASA celebrates National Ocean Month with PACE

For National Ocean Month, the NASA feature "PACE Celebrates National Ocean Month With Colorful Views of the Planet" highlights the the views of Earth and informative observations provided by the...

Posted: June 11, 2024, 4:37 PM

ESI GRAs present posters during UMBC's 8th EDS

On Monday, April 29th, as part of UMBC's Earth Day Symposium agenda, students presented posters on their research. Among those who presented were two graduate research assistants affiliated with...

Posted: May 8, 2024, 5:04 PM

Borda and Young receive 2024 UMBC Presidential Awards

On Wednesday, May 1, 2024, the UMBC 2024 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards ceremony was held in the University Center Ballroom, and it was available to view virtually. President Valerie...

Posted: May 3, 2024, 2:26 PM

ESI Scientist participates in UMBC’s Community Day

During UMBC’s Earth Month celebration, on Monday, April 22, Brent McBride of UMBC’s Earth and Space Institute participated in Community Day. He was joined by Amy Houghton (ESRA/UMBC) and Dominique...

Posted: April 26, 2024, 4:08 PM

New NASA Visualization explains Instruments onboard PACE

Since the PACE satellite launched in February, as of April 4th, the first data images have been acquired from the three instruments onboard the satellite. Created by the NASA Scientific...

Posted: April 24, 2024, 10:53 AM

Smoke over the western coast of Central America

Aerosol retrievals from HARP2

The image illustrates an instance of size-seperated aerosol optical depth obtained from HARP2 observations in low Earth orbit. This specific granule was captured on April 14, 2024. Using the GRASP...

Posted: April 18, 2024, 11:03 AM

First Light Data from HARP2 on PACE now available

On February 8, 2024, the PACE satellite (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) was launched; now, the first light data from the HARP2 instrument has become available. The satellite, the data,...

Posted: April 11, 2024, 4:07 PM

ESI calibrates OreSat small satellite at NASA GSFC

The ESI collaborates with Portland State University in the development and characterization of OreSat, a small satellite instrument for measuring cirrus clouds from space. Last week, the ESI took...

Posted: March 29, 2024, 1:52 PM