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Field Discusses Wildfire Smoke

2025.05.28

Robert Field (611/Columbia) spoke with Brian Allnut from Planet Detroit about Michigan having poor air quality from wildfire smoke this summer and further in the future.

Tsigardis Talks Launch Debris Impacts

2025.04.01

Kostas Tsigaridis (611/Columbia) was interviewed by Eric Roston from Bloomberg about the present and future impact of rocket launches and space debris reentry in the Earth’s atmosphere

GISS Scientists Select Best Paper of 2024

2025.03.31

Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the article "Modeling atmospheric brown carbon in the GISS ModelE Earth system model" by Maggie DeLessio et al.. as the top work among more than 160 research publications by institute staff published in 2024. It was also selected as the best research paper by an early career scientist at the institute The paper appeared in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Runners-up included "Severe global cooling after volcanic super-eruptions? The answer hinges on unknown aerosol size" by Zachary McGraw et al. and " Observational constraint on a feedback from supercooled clouds reduces projected warming uncertaint" by Gregory Cesana et al.

Peteet Recognized as Outstanding Researcher

2025.02.18

Congratulations to Dorothy Peteet (611) for receiving the "2025 Outstanding Environmental Researcher” award from the Hudson River Environmental Society.

Schmidt Discusses Climate and Disasters

2025.01.13

Gavin Schmidt (611) was featured in the PBS article “How climate change may have created 'perfect storm' for LA fires" and The New York Times article "We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters” by David Gelles and Austyn Gaffney.

Global Temperature Makes News

2025.01.10

Gavin Schmidt (611) was featured in NPR's article “2024 was the hottest year on record. The reason remains a science mystery” by Alejandra Borunda.

Tselioudis Chats Climate and Clouds

2025.01.08

George Tselioudis (611) was interviewed in YouTube's “Global Warming➔Fewer Clouds➔More Warming! with George Tselioudis | Climate Chat.”

Schmidt Quoted in The Atlantic

2025.01.06

Gavin Schmidt (611) was quoted in The Atlantic's article, “Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth” by Zoë Schlanger.

Tselioudis Featured in Science

2024.12.19

George Tselioudis (611) was featured in Science's article, “Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming” by Paul Voosen.

PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign

2024.12.17

It’s a flight day for one of NASA’s most expansive and complex field campaigns.

The goal: to check the data collected from orbit by NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. To do that, members of the PACE-PAX (PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment) field campaign deployed two aircraft and a research ship from multiple locations in California over the duration of September 2024.

Schmidt Talks Clouds in The Times

2024.12.05

Gavin Schmidt (611) was quoted in The Times’ article, “Fewer clouds could be to blame for 2023’s record heat.”

2024 Clarivate (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researchers

2024.11.19

Benjamin Cook (611), Joanna Joiner (614), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Doug Morton (618), Nima Pahlevan (619), and Ben Poulter (618) were selected as 2024 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (Web of Science). Recipients are recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.

October GISS Temperature Data Released

2024.11.08

October 2024 was the second-hottest October in NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies record, GISTEMP. The month was 1.32 C (or about 2.38 F) above the long-term 1951–1980 average. It was slightly cooler than Oct. 2023, though the margins of error overlap, so the two are effectively tied.

Cook Discusses Record U.S. Drought

2024.11.04

Benjamin Cook (611) was featured in The New York Times news article, “In a Record, All but Two U.S. States Are in Drought” by Austyn Gaffney and Mira Rojanasakul.

Cook Comments on La Nina Possibility

2024.10.17

Benjamin Cook (611) was quoted in The Washington Post’s article, “La Nina could soon arrive. Here's what that means for winter weather” by Isabella O’Malley.

Notes from the Field: Twenty-one Hours a Day on 30-Foot Floating Science Lab

2024.09.24

Off the coast of southern California, a research team sails for science on the Research Vessel Blissfully. https://earthobserv

PACE Blog: NASA Pilots Use Specialty Suits to Validate Data

2024.09.24

Welcome to NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX). PACE-PAX uses the unique vantage point of the ER-2 aircraft to gather data on small particles in the atmosphere and ultimately help verify the data gathered by the satellite in orbit.

Notes from the Field: Sailing Away for PACE

2024.09.13

Hello from sunny Santa Barbara, California, where the ship operations for the PACE-PAX campaign are underway!

August Features Heat

2024.08.15

GISS scientists discussed ocean warming, the unexpected pace of heating, and recent July temperatures with several media outlets. Gavin Schmidt (611) was quoted in The Guardian news article, “‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating.” Schmidt was also interviewed by Rebecca Hersher of NPR in “The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why.” Kate Marvel (611), Gavin Schmidt (611), and Peter Jacobs (130) were featured in Bloomberg’s online article, “Was July 2023 or July 2024 the Hottest Month on Record? Yes.”

Notes from the Field: Day-in-the-Life of a PACE-PAX Mission Flight

2024.08.12

We are in the field supporting PACE-PAX (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment), a multi-disciplinary mission that involves two aircraft—the NASA ER-2 and CIRPAS Twin Otter—and several mobile ocean assets, all helping to validate observations and data products from NASA’s new satellite observation platform, PACE.