News & Highlights

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

Learn more about OCI, SPEXone, and HARP2 on PACE

NASA's PACE spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, February 8! Congratulations to all,...

Posted: February 23, 2024, 4:01 PM

UMBC News publishes HARP2 and PACE feature

The UMBC News article "UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA's PACE mission" covers the journey and excitement of arriving at the PACE launch, with the HARP2...

Posted: February 23, 2024, 3:42 PM