Joe Munchak, the NASA GPM Deputy Project Scientist for Ground Validation (GV), will be leaving NASA at the end of this week to pursue a career in the private sector. Muncak has served in this role since 2010, when he left ESSIC. Dave Wolff will be filling Munchak’s position at NASA, after being with Goddard since 1988.
ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Ryan M. Stauffer is a co-author on a report that discovered that the COVID-19 crisis reduced tropospheric ozone across the Northern Hemisphere.
Last June, NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, an ongoing effort to monitor changes in polar ice, was awarded a Robert H. Goddard award for Science Teams. On this team is Alek Petty, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, who has made substantial contributions as a member of the missision’s Project Science Office.
Last week, The National Geographic Society announced the 2020 recipients of the Young Explorers Grant, a prestigious grant awarded to young people, between the ages of 16 and 26, engaged in complex, impact-driven efforts to address global issues. Liza Goldberg, 18-year-old ESSIC scientist and NASA student research assistant, is one of the 22 recipients.
Santiago Gassó, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, was recently interviewed by the local NPR station (KTEP) at the University of Texas, El Paso for the broadcast “Science Studio”.
Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years.
More than a trillion new measurements of the Earth’s surface height are now available to the public as the first results of ICESat-2, a mission devoted to measuring the changing height of Earth’s ice.
