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Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST)

Team Meeting – June 2013

John A. Haynes, MS Program Manager, Health and Air Quality

Applied Sciences Program

Earth Science Division Science Mission Directorate

NASA Washington, DC USA

[email protected]

Major News Items in the ESD/ASP

• New Health and Air Quality solicitation expected soon (ROSES 13, Element A.44).

• NASA Health/AQ Sessions at the following conferences:

– AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 2012) – AMS Annual Meeting (Jan 2013) – AWMA Webinar (March 2013) – Public Health Informatics Course at USUHS (March 2013) – American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting (May 2013)

• NASA Earth Science Senior Review (April/May 2013)

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National Earth Observing Strategy Released, 4/19/2013

New USGEO Charter Released, 4/10/2013

Interagency

Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) Launches USGCRP, Climate Change and Human Health Working Group (CCHHG)

MATCH is a searchable clearinghouse that: • Provides access to metadata for health

surveillance, climate, ocean and environmental data sets through a single online geoportal;

• Characterizes and provides links to publicly available Federal data sets, early warning systems, and tools related to health impacts of global climate change;

• Is designed to facilitate and improve the quality of research and data stewardship;

• Includes points of contact and caveats about data; • Was developed through a collaborative interagency

effort of the USGCRP (including the NASA Health and Air Quality Applications Program).

• http://match.globalchange.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page

The MATCH portal launched on May 9, 2013, in conjunction with a new White House Open Data Policy and Executive Order on data management. MATCH was highlighted on the OSTP and CEQ blogs as a model for using Federal open data to address critical societal challenges. These blogs were “re-tweeted” and reposted by NASA. Future goals include adding metadata from additional federal agencies, supporting data overlay, and providing data integration capabilities.

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Presentation Notes

It sounds simple but making the public health data environmental data sets accessible through the same place with the key caveats explained, and searchable from a public health perspective as well as an environmental perspective -- is actually a big deal. MATCH is being used as a prototype for the National Climate Assessment, is being adopted as first case for the Global Climate Information System, and is a deliverable under the CEQ led Climate Adaptation Task Force. MATCH plans to be linked to Data.gov. NASA representatives on the CCHHG are John Haynes and Sue Estes (MSFC).

http://match.globalchange.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page

http://match.globalchange.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page

Socioeconomic Impacts: A Primer

Purpose: Inform the Earth observations community and project teams about the language, key principles, techniques, and applications of socioeconomic impact analyses. Released March 2013

ESD/Applied Sciences Awards

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Gold 2013 Hermes Creative Award: Publication/Annual Report Category

Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals

Silver 2013 Communicator Awards: Overall Design Category, Government Category

International Academy of Visual Arts

Annual Report

2013 Geospatial World Excellence Award

Policy Implementation & Knowledge Transfer Geospatial Media & Communications

Program

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Presentation Notes

BoozAllen entered the 2011 Applied Sciences Annual Report into competitions for publication awards. BoozAllenHamilton managed production along with AppSci Silver: 2013 Communicator Awards, which are run by the International Academy of Visual Arts. Two awards – a ‘silver award of distinction’ in the Government category and a ‘silver award of distinction’ in the Overall Design category. Gold: 2013 Hermes Creative Award (Gold), Publication/Annual Report category Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals

Communications

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Air Quality Research Campaign Concludes in California NASA's DISCOVER-AQ team completed an intense flight and ground-based air quality research campaign in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California this month. This is the second destination in a five-year mission to study air pollution in the part of the atmosphere where people live and breathe, a region called the boundary layer… Local California air quality regulators were grateful to have the DISCOVER-AQ California 2013 campaign in their neighborhood. "We have surface sites, but data aloft is rare and expensive," said Eileen McCauley, manager of the atmospheric processes research section at California Air Resources Board. "The DISCOVER-AQ mission helps us paint a picture and fill in spaces to improve our understanding of the three dimensions of the atmosphere. Air quality is definitely a 3-D process."

NASA Web Feature issued on February 26, 2013 to highlight the conclusion of the 2nd campaign of DISCOVER-AQ. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/discover-aq/news/DAQ-20130226.html

Upcoming Events

• June 4-6, 2013

– AQAST 5; College Park, MD

• July 9-12, 2013 – NCAR Climate and Health Workshop; Boulder, CO

• July 23-25, 2013

– GEO Community of Practice for Health; Washington, DC

• August 25-29, 2013 – ISPRS Conference; Arlington, VA

• September (date TBD)

– NASA Health and Air Quality Annual Meeting; Minneapolis, MN • November 12-13, 2013

– GPM Applications Workshop; College Park, MD

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