The Wabash Seismic Zone (WSZ) project is aimed at assessing a stress-accumulation deficit in the WSZ. Doing so will allow seismologists to more accurately map earthquake hazard maps for the area, and help engineers, community leaders, and others to prepare for the next potential geologic hazard in the Midwest.
Tropospheric ozone is harmful to humans, trees, crops, and other vegetation. This project focused on providing the U.S. Forest Service with a sustainable tool to enhance its current ozone monitoring practices using NASA remote-sensing data. Data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument and the Microwave Limb Sounder aboard the Aura mission were used for this project.
A grand prize winner and honorable mentions have been selected in the latest Virtual Poster Session (VPS) by students from NASA’s DEVELOP National Program. The winning project, ÛÏSound the Alarm: Oregon Wildfires Take a Toll on Public HealthÛ was a collaborative effort between six students at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Our team is sounding the alarm on the health implications of the Pole Creek fire, which burned 27,000 acres from Sept. 9-Oct. 18, 2012. This is a continuation of the previous Western U.S. Disasters project, and our aim is to demonstrate to the Oregon Department of Forestry how to forecast fire emissions and their implications.
Intense extratropical cyclones are often associated with non-convective high winds, which have devastating economic and societal impacts. This DEVELOP team will analyze the synoptic and mesoscale features of these events to investigate the presence of the sting jet and to determine whether MERRA data can adequately resolve cloud features.
In the heart of Southwest Virginia lie two technologically distinct power plants. One uses traditional coal-burning technology, and the other uses innovative ÛÏclean coalÛ-fired technology. With two plants within miles of one another, this project aims to use NASA Earth observations to monitor and compare the environmental impacts of each.
Mapping patterns of climate change vulnerability across space and time helps to identify socially and biophysically vulnerable areas in Nepal. Identifying areas of projected vulnerability helps guide the efforts of decision makers in creating adaptation strategies for climate change.
This project was a feasibility study and technology demonstration project that maximized Suomi’s NPP Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The team tested its capability of detecting and estimating gas-flaring events and associated atmospheric pollutants over North Dakota and Texas.
Based on field surveys, agricultural fires have historically been the primary cause of deforestation in Ghana. Does slash-and-burn agriculture still influence deforestation in Ghana today? Using satellite imagery, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) DEVELOP interns created automated recent deforestation products combined with fire detections to reveal the impact of agricultural burning on Ghana’s forests.
Nobody likes swimming in a lake in the summer around algae or having slimy aquatic plants brush up on their feet. The DEVELOP team at Marshall Space Flight Center worked to help improve methods for controlling aquatic vegetation in North Alabama. Using Landsat 7 ETM+ and vegetation indices, the team created a method to map aquatic vegetation and points of agricultural source pollution.
