Announcements and Highlights

Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below.

SUNDAY, MAY 21

Special Hyperwall Session for Junior High School Students (Planetary and Earth) 

10:30 - 10:35 AM        Opening remarks      

10:35 - 10:55 AM        Exploring Mercury: A Very Brief History Shoshana Weider

10:55 - 11:15 AM        A Mathematician's Journey to the Moon Kate Kitagawa

11:15 - 11:35 AM        Tree Height from the Ground and Space: The GLOBE Program and the ICESat-2 Mission Brian Campbell

11:35 - 12:35 PM        Lunch 

12:35 - 2:00 PM          Activity slot #1 NASA Brian Campbell and Peter Falcon

12:35 - 2:00 PM          Activity slot #2 JAXA1: The Planes, Balloons, and Rockets: Three Ways to Look Up the Sky JAXA Space Education Center

12:35 - 2:00 PM          Activity slot #3 JAXA2 JAXA Earth Observation Research Center

2:10 - 2:15 PM             Closing remarks         

2:15 - 2:45 PM             Break 

                        Special Hyperwall session for High School Students

2:45 - 2:50 PM            Opening remarks      

2:50 - 3:20 PM            Highlights from NASA's Planetary Science Division Lori Glaze

3:20 - 3:50 PM            宇宙から観る水の惑星・地球 (The Water Planet Earth: Seen From Space) Kosuke Yamamoto

3:50 - 4:00 PM            Break 

4:00 - 4:30 PM            Earth Science at NASA Joel Scott

4:30 - 5:00 PM            Planetary Observation: BepiColombo & JUICE Go Murakami

5:00 - 5:05 PM            Closing remarks         

5:05 - 5:30 PM            Informal Mixer with Students          

MONDAY, MAY 22

Planetary Presentations and Discussion

1:15 - 1:45 PM             Explore the Solar System Using Trek Portals Including the Newly Released Ganymede Trek Emily Law

1:45 - 2:15 PM             The Solar System and Beyond Ryuki Hyodo

2:15 - 2:45 PM             NASA's Eyes Peter Falcon

2:45 - 3:15 PM             Overview of the MMX Sample Return Mission Ryota Fukai

TUESDAY, MAY 23

Earth Presentations and Discussion

1:15 - 1:45 PM             Satellites to Science to Action: NASA's Earth Science Data Systems Joel Scott 

1:45 - 2:15 PM             Five Years observations of GCOM-C/SGLI: Global Change Observation Mission and Climate Kazuhisa Tanada 

2:15 - 2:45 PM             Tree Height from the Ground and Space: The GLOBE Program and the ICESat-2 Mission Brian Campbell 

2:45 - 3:15 PM             Forthcoming EarthCARE Mission: Overview and Scientific Background Toshiyuki Tanaka

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

Heliophysics Presentations and Discussion

1:15 - 1:45 PM             Space Weather Jim Spann

1:45 - 2:15 PM             JAXA's explorations on heliospheric system science Yoshifumi Saito

2:15 - 2:45 PM             NASA or JAXA

2:45 - 3:15 PM             Satellite Observations and Deep Learning Modeling in Solar Physics Yusuke Iida

                        Special Hyperwall session for High School Students

5:00 - 5:05 PM             Opening remarks      

5:05 - 5:35 PM             Earth Science at NASA Joel Scott

5:35 - 6:05 PM             宇宙から観る水の惑星・地球 (The Water Planet Earth: Seen from Space) Kosuke Yamamoto

6:05 - 6:35 PM             Explore the Solar System Using Trek Portals Including the Newly Released Ganymede Trek Emily Law  

6:40 - 7:00 PM             Informal mixer with students           

Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #113) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below.

SUNDAY, MAY 21 

1:30 PM          NASA Applied Sciences: Accelerating Air Quality Solutions Through Earth Observations John Haynes

1:45 PM          Unveiling the Air We Breathe At New Scales Laura Judd

2:00 PM          Linking Satellite Data to the One Health Approach Helena Chapman

MONDAY, MAY 22

1:15 PM          Earth Science in Action: Managing Droughts, Dust, and Goats Lawrence Friedl

1:30 PM          Predicting More Than Just Weather: New High Resolution Air Quality Forecasts from NASA GEOS Model Emma Knowland

1:45 PM          Space Based Observations of Air Quality Barry Lefer

TUESDAY, MAY 23

1:30 PM          Predicting More Than Just Weather: New High Resolution Air Quality Forecasts from NASA GEOS Model Emma Knowland

1:45 PM          Towards a Flexible Data Fusion Tool for Air Quality Estimation and Forecasting with a Global Scope in Google Earth Engine Carl Malings

Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #X204) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below.

MONDAY, APRIL 24

10:15 AM  The NASA Sea Level Change Portal Thomas Huang

10:30 AM  The Firefly Constellation: A Holistic View of the Sun and Its Environment Nour E. Raouafi

12:45 PM  How Much of Earth's Magnetosphere Can We Sense From The Ground? August Brenner

1:00 PM  Juno's Extended Vision in its Extended Mission Glenn Orton

1:15 PM  Observing the Dynamics Inside Tropical Storms from Space: the INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) Project Ziad S. Haddad

3:45 PM  Explore the Solar System Using Trek Portals Including the Newly Released Ganymede Trek Emily Law

4:00 PM  NASA Space Weather Program Reinhard Friedel

6:05 PM  Open Source Science Initiative Kevin Murphy 

6:20 PM  JWST Observations of Titan Conor Nixon

6:35 PM  Parker Solar Probe: How the Solar Wind is Born Nour E. Raouafi

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

10:15 AM  Aerosols in the Stratosphere: A SAGE III/ISS Perspective Richard Eckman

10:30 AM  Juno Microwave Radiometer Steve Levin

12:45 - 1:30 PM  Special Session: Open Science "Ask a NASA Open Science Expert" Katie Baynes and Kevin Murphy

3:45 PM  NASAaccess: Earth Observation Data Ibrahim Mohammed

4:00 PM  Carbon Observations from Space Ken Jucks

6:05 PM  Know Before You Go to Mars Azita Valinia

6:20 PM  Measurement of 100s of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Point Sources Around the Globe with NASA EMIT Robert O. Green

6:35 PM  The Mars 2020 Mission and Mars Sample Return Mitch Schulte

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26

10:15 AM  NASA' Science Discovery Engine Kaylin Bugbee

10:30 AM  Watching Global Precipitation with GPM George Huffman

12:45 PM  Observing the Dynamics Inside Tropical Storms from Space: the INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) Project Ziad S. Haddad

1:00 PM  New Frontiers in Agnostic Planetary Analysis Jonathan Jiang

1:15 PM  Juno's Extended Vision in its Extended Mission Glenn Orton

1:30 PM  21st Century Surface Temperature Projections Using NASA Data and Global Climate Models Jonathan Jiang

3:45 PM   Hurricane or Phoenix: Born From Its Own Ashes Svetla Hristova-Veleva

4:00 PM  Transform to Open Science Cynthia Hall

6:05 PM  Tracking the Greenland Meltwalter Inside the Ice Sheet Andreas Colliander

6:20 PM  NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) Project Alexey Shiklomanov

6:35 PM  Upcoming NASA Missions to Advance Coastal Remote Sensing Stephanie Schollaert Uz

THURSDAY, APRIL 27

10:15 AM  Airborne Remote Sensing of Methane Hotspots Across Spatiotempral Scales in the North American Arctic Clayton Elder

10:30 AM  Characterizing the 2019-2021 Drought in La Plata River Basin Jessica Besnier

12:45 - 1:30 PM  Special Session: Open Science "Ask a NASA Open Science Expert" Katie Baynes and Kevin Murphy

3:45 PM  NASA's Carbon Monitoring System Ken Jucks

4:00 PM  Help From Above: How NASA is Supporting Advances in Global Water Resource Management John Bolten

6:05 PM  Chasing the Shadow of the Sun Jie Gong

6:20 PM  Observing the Dynamics Inside Tropical Storms from Space: the INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) Project Ziad S. Haddad

6:35 PM  Aerosols in the Stratosphere: A SAGE III/ISS Perspective Richard Eckman

FRIDAY, APRIL 28

10:15 AM  POWER Web Services: Providing NASA Data for Renewable Energy, Sustainable Infrastructure and Agroclimatology Applications Paul Stackhouse

10:30 AM  Building on the Landsat Legacy Alexey Shiklomanov

Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #437) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. 

THURSDAY, MARCH 23

11:30 - 11:45 AM   Flight Opportunities  Lucas Moxey

11:45 - 12:00 PM   Create Digital Field Trips with Infiniscope  Jessica Swann

12:00 - 12:15 PM   How can Teachers Borrow Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks?  Suzanne Foxworth

12:15 - 12:30 PM   NASA Educational Resources for Space Communications  Jimmy Acevedo 

1:30 - 1:45 PM    Apollo to Artemis: Sample Collection and Curation Kim Willis

1:45 - 2:00 PM    Celebrate the Sun and solar eclipses!  Carolyn Ng/Christina Milotte

2:00 - 2:15 PM    NASA Educational Resources for Space Communications Jimmy Acevedo

2:15 - 2:30 PM    My NASA Data: Making Satellite Data Accessible to All Students Angie Rizzi

2:30 - 2:45 PM    Using GLOBE in-and-out of the classroom Grace Crain-Wright

2:45 - 3:00 PM    NASA's New Therapy Resources for Young Learners Molly Kearns

3:00 - 3:15 PM    Interactive Ways for Learners to Explore NASA Content & Assets Paige Graff/Rossina Miller

3:15 - 3:30 PM    SNEAK PEEK! with Infiniscope  Jessica Swann

3:30 - 3:45 PM    STELLA: A DIY Handheld Spectrometer Michael Taylor

3:45 - 4:00 PM    Live NASA Kahoot! Quiz Bowl Jimmy Acevedo

4:00 - 4:15 PM    Flight Opportunities Lucas Moxey

4:15 - 4:30 PM    NASA SCaN's Spanish K-12 Activities Molly Kearns

FRIDAY, MARCH 24

9:45 - 10:00 AM      Interactive Ways for Learners to Explore NASA Content & Assets Paige Graff

10:00 - 10:15 AM    NASA Educational Resources for Space Communications Jimmy Acevedo

10:15 - 10:30 AM    Flight Opportunities Lucas Moxey

10:30 - 10:45 AM    NASA SCaN's Spanish K-12 Activities Molly Kearns

10:45 - 11:00 AM    Celebrate the Sun and solar eclipses! Carolyn Ng/Christina Milotte

11:00 - 11:15 AM    My NASA Data: Making Satellite Data Accessible to All Students Angie Rizzi

11:15 - 11:30 AM    How can Teachers Borrow Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks? Suzanne Foxworth

11:30 - 11:45 AM    NASA's New Therapy Resources for Young Learners Molly Kearns 

11:45 - 12:00 PM    Using GLOBE in-and-out of the classroom Grace Crain-Wright

2:15 - 2:30 PM    Interactive Ways for Learners to Explore NASA Content & Assets Paige Graff/Rossina Miller

2:30 - 2:45 PM    Create Digital Field Trips with Infiniscope Jessica Swann

2:45 - 3:00 PM    Flight Opportunities  Lucas Moxey

3:00 - 3:15 PM    Interactive Ways for Learners to Explore NASA Content & Assets Paige Graff/Rossina Miller 

3:45 - 4:00 PM    Digital Plug and Play Lessons for Your Middle or High School Classroom Jessica Swann

4:00 - 4:15 PM    Apollo to Artemis: Sample Collection and Curation  Kim Willis

4:15 - 4:30 PM    How can Teachers Borrow Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks? Suzanne Foxworth

SATURDAY, MARCH 25

9:30 - 9:45 AM                Digital plug and play lessons for your middle or high school classroom  Jessica Swann

9:45 - 10:00 AM              How can Teachers Borrow Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks?  Suzanne Foxworth

10:00 - 10:15 AM            NASA SCaN's Spanish K-12 Activities  Molly Kearns

10:15 - 10:30 AM            Create Digital Field Trips with Infiniscope  Jessica Swann

10:30 - 10:45 AM            Interactive Ways for Learners to Explore NASA Content & Assets  Paige Graff

10:45 - 11:00 AM            Celebrate the Sun and solar eclipses!  Carolyn Ng/Christina Milotte

11:00 - 11:15 AM            My NASA Data: Making Satellite Data Accessible to All Students Angie Rizzi

11:15 - 11:30 AM            Using GLOBE in-and-out of the classroom Grace Crain-Wright

11:30 - 11:45 AM            STELLA: A DIY Handheld Spectrometer  Michael Taylor

8:00 - 8:15 AM    NASA in Agriculture  Videos

8:30 - 8:45 AM    Explore Earth's Land, Water and Vegetation with NASA Worldview  Elizabeth Joyner

9:00 - 9:15 AM    STELLA - A DIY Spectrometer  Mike Taylor

9:30 - 9:45 AM    NASA Harvest's Ukraine Response  Mike Humber

10:00 - 10:15 AM  NASA Agriculture - Past and Future  Brad Doorn

10:30 - 10:45 AM  Two Decades of Mapping U.S. Corn Yields using MODIS  Arthur Rosales

11:00 - 11:15 AM  The Role of Landsat Imagery for Mapping Crop Types Across the US  Rick Mueller

Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #200) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. 

THURSDAY, MARCH 2

6:30 - 6:45 PM            How NASA Views the Earth from Space  Jack Kaye

6:45 - 7:00 PM            Why Venus? NASA’s Return to Our Sister Planet  James B. Garvin

7:00 - 7:15 PM            Heliophysics Big Year  Nicole Rayl/Denise Hill

7:15 - 7:30 PM            NASA's James Webb Space Telescope  Alex Lockwood

7:30 - 7:45 PM            Unlock the Power of the Future: Open Science Driving Humanity Forward  Chelle Gentemann

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

11:10 - 11:25 AM      Observations of Air Pollution from Space  Barry Lefer

2:10 - 2:25 PM           Through the Eyes of NASA: 2023 Annular and 2024 Total Solar Eclipses  Kelly Korreck

3:30 - 3:45 PM           OSIRIS-REx – Returning a Sample from Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu  Michael Moreau

3:45 - 4:00 PM           Science & Storytelling  Abbey Interrante

4:00 - 4:15 PM           The GLOBE Program: Enabling Students and Citizen Scientists to Explore Earth  Allison Leidner       

4:15 - 4:30 PM           NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope: A New Era of Discovery  Jennifer Wiseman

SATURDAY, MARCH 4

11:10 - 11:25 AM        Using NASA Tools for Climate Change and Food  Cynthia Rosenzweig

2:10 - 2:25 PM            CHEMISTRY from the Sky: Using Aircraft to Study the Earth  Jack Kaye

3:00 - 3:15 PM            NASA’s Science Activation Program  Lin Chambers

3:15 - 3:30 PM            Simplifying Science: The Art of Science Communication  Denise Hill

3:30 - 3:45 PM            Space Weather: Starships and Storm  Jim Spann  

3:45 - 4:00 PM            NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope  Dominic Benford

4:00 - 4:15 PM            NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Bridge Program  Padi Boyd

4:15 - 4:30 PM            Initiatives in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility at NASA  Kartik Sheth

4:30 - 4:45 PM            Contribute to NASA’s Library of Earth Science Data with the GLOBE Observer App  Heather Mortimer

SUNDAY, MARCH 5

9:10 - 9:25 AM             A Surprising Route to the Sun: A Career in Heliophysics  Kelly Korreck

9:25 - 9:40 AM             Unlock the Power of the Future: Open Science Driving Humanity Forward  Paige Martin

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8

7:05 - 7:20 PM            Building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Dominic Benford

7:20 - 7:35 PM            Heliophysics: The Science of Space Alex Young

7:35 - 7:50 PM            Exploring the Solar System with Webb Stefanie Milam

7:50 - 8:05 PM            Hubble: New Science in the Era of Webb Jennifer Wiseman

8:05 - 8:20 PM            NASA's Year of Open Science Steve Crawford

MONDAY, JANUARY 9

9:05 - 9:20 AM            Paving the Way for Big Eyes with Theory and Simulations Aaron Yung

9:20 - 9:35 AM            The Future of TESS Rebekah Hounsell

9:35 - 9:50 AM            Expansion of ADS to all NASA Science Alberto Accomazzi

9:50 - 10:05 AM          Outreach Resources to Unfold the Universe with JWST Quyen Hart

10:05 - 10:20 AM        CEERS Early Release JWST program Steven Finkelstein       

2:00 - 2:15 PM             A NICER View of Astrophysics from the International Space Station Elizabeth Ferrara

2:15 - 2:30 PM            Heliophysics: The Science of Space Alex Young

2:30 - 2:45 PM            The First Year of New Discoveries from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Steve Ehlert

2:45 - 3:00 PM            Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST Ian Wong

5:30 - 5:45 PM            Completing the Galactic Census of Exoplanets with Roman Scott Gaudi

5:45 - 6:00 PM            Emulating Roman's Grism Instrument Austen Gabrielpillai

6:00 - 6:15 PM            The NASA Exoplanet Archive Breaks The Fourth Wall Jessie Christiansen

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10

9:05 - 9:20 AM            Time Domain and New Opportunities with HST Carol Christian

9:20 - 9:35 AM            Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
 Coronagraph Instrument Alexandra Greenbaum

9:35 - 9:50 AM            How to Image an Exo-Earth in 3 Simple Steps Ell Bogat

9:50 - 10:05 AM          Astrobiology and Exoplanets in OpenSpace Rachel Smith

10:05 - 10:20 AM        Science Highlights from the James Webb Space Telescope Jonathan Gardner      

2:00 - 2:15 PM            The NASA Exoplanet Archive Breaks the Fourth Wall Jessie Christiansen

2:15 - 2:30 PM            Future Science with NASA's 
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Karoline Gilbert

2:30 - 2:45 PM            The Dynamic Sky with NASA's Roman Space Telescope Ori Fox

2:45 - 3:00 PM            The Distant Universe Magnified with 
JWST and Gravitational Lensing Brian Welch     

5:30 - 5:45 PM             Spectrum: Empowering Equitable Excellence Natasha Latouf

5:45 - 6:00 PM             Searching for the Origins of Supermassive Black Holes Jenna Cann

6:00 - 6:15 PM             Science Discovery Engine Kaylin Bugbee

6:15 - 6:30 PM            PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation &
Dust Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies Janice Lee

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11

9:05 - 9:20 AM             Status and Initial Results of the ULLYSES
 Large Hubble Director's Discretionary Program Julia Roman-Duval & Jo Taylor

9:20 - 9:35 AM             Extragalactic Magnetism with
 SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program) Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

9:35 - 9:50 AM             Flying Through the “New” Milky Way, in 3D Alyssa Goodman

9:50 - 10:05 AM           The Search for Life Beyond Earth Shawn Domagal Goldman & Amber Young       

2:00 - 2:15 PM             Jdaviz: An Interactive Visual Data Analysis Tool 
for JWST in the Jupyter Platform Kyle Conroy

2:15 - 2:30 PM            NED and Open Science Joe Mazzarella

2:30 - 2:45 PM             Scale in the Universe: From the Solar System to Blazars Tiffany Lewis

2:45 - 3:00 PM             Exploring Heliophysics Through Interaction Carter Emmart          

5:30 - 5:45 PM             Fingerprints of Nested Dust Shells around the
Wolf-Rayet Binary WR 140 Revealed by JWST Ryan Lau

5:45 - 6:00 PM             US Archival Science with Euclid Shoubaneh Hemmati

6:00 - 6:15 PM            Studying the First Galaxies in the Universe:
 A Brief Overview Taylor Hutchison

6:15 - 6:30 PM            Astrophoto Challenges: Engage the Public to Create Astronomical Images with NASA Data Rutuparna Das

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12

9:05 - 9:20 AM            Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument    Ami Choi

9:20 - 9:35 AM            NASA's New Great Observatories and How You Can Get Involved Grant Tremblay

9:35 - 9:50 AM            The Sun at Your Fingertips: Visualizing Our Star Alex Young

9:50 - 10:05 AM          NASA's Year of Open Science Steve Ehlert

1:15 - 1:30 PM            How to Image an Exo-Earth in 3 Simple Steps Ell Bogat

1:30 - 1:45 PM             Exploring the Solar System with Webb Stefanie Milam

1:45 - 2:00 PM            Astrophoto Challenges: Engage the Public to Create Astronomical Images with NASA Data Rutuparna Das

2:00 - 2:15 PM            Showing Webb Operations and Observations Jackie Faherty

The Science Communications Support Office (SCSO) supported 18 domestic and international science conferences and 6 public events in 2017. The SCSO continues to provide an inspiring and interactive venue for every event during the year, using a unique storytelling approach that allows a variety of audiences worldwide to connect with NASA Science. The 2017 Annual Report provides an overview of these activities with details about new Hyperwall stories, publications, social media, key partnerships, and more!

Viewed from space, Earth appears as a blue marble, as approximately 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean water. The vast ocean holds roughly 97% of the planet’s water and represents 99% of the living space on Earth. NASA has been observing Earth’s ocean from space for more than 38 years, beginning with the launch of the first civilian oceanographic satellite, Seasat, on January 28, 1978. This brochure explains how NASA has the ability to observe and detect changes in the ocean (and on Earth as a whole) on a variety of spatial and temporal scales—ultimately positioning the Agency to improve life on our planet.

Precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls quickly from a cloud. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, grapple (soft hail or snow pellets), and hail. Today, scientists can measure precipitation directly—using ground-based instruments such as rain gauges—or indirectly—using remote sensing techniques (e.g., from radar systems, aircraft, and Earth-observing satellites). This brochure describes how satellite observations—often combined with other measurements taken on the ground or from aircraft—provide frequent estimates of precipitation at a global scale. Among other uses, precipitation datasets from NASA are used for forecasting tropical cyclones; monitoring soil moisture conditions and freshwater availability; and predicting flood and drought conditions, landslides, crop yields, and water-related illnesses.