Announcements Archive
Book Your ASTM11 Hotel Now! – The dates of ASTM11 (May 12-15, 2025) coincide with both a military exercise and tourist season in Fairbanks. Wedgewood and Sophie Station have offered us per diem rates, however they are not able to hold a block of rooms for us. We therefore recommend booking a room as soon as possible. (posted 2024-10-31)GHGSat Methane Concentration and Emission Data Now Available – Data acquired by NASA for the successfully concluded scientific evaluation of GHGSat under the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program is now available through the NASA Earthdata portal. The dataset consists of georeferenced per-pixel methane column abundances, methane concentration maps, methane emission rates with error estimates, and associated metadata for global anthropogenic and naturogenic point sources for the period from January 2021 to May 2024. (posted 2024-10-31)Comments Solicited on Scoping Studies for Future Field Campaigns – Feedback due Nov. 5 (posted 2024-10-31)IARPC Collaborations Mentorship Program: 2024-25 Session – The program will run from September 2024 to May 2025. Sign up by August 23. (posted 2024-08-02)ASTM10 Group Photo and Meeting Summary – The ASTM10 group photo and meeting summary have been posted - check them out here! (posted 2024-07-31)AGU Call for Abstracts for Session B108 – Please consider submitting an abstract to B108 - The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change. Abstracts are due by July 31st. (posted 2024-06-24)GHG and Climate Funding Opportunity from Google Research – "Creating ML benchmarks for climate problems". Applications due July 17, 2024. Please contact Anna Michalak (annamichalak@google.com) for questions. (posted 2024-06-07)GEODE lead Scott Goetz honored as AGU fellow! (posted 2024-05-17)Peter Griffith received NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (posted 2024-05-15)Libby Larson received NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal (posted 2024-05-15)Apply to Join a NASA Wildfire Technology Management Cohort (WTMC) – Responses Due: February 26, 2024 (posted 2024-02-06)SMD Inclusion Plan Requirements Town Hall - Feb. 20, 2024, 3 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time – NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Inclusion Plan Community of Practice will host a webinar to discuss requirements for and evaluation of Inclusion Plans in ROSES-2024. Connection information available here. (posted 2024-01-03)Transform to Open Science: Release of Open Science 101 Curriculum – On December 6, NASA released its new Open Science 101 curriculum (OS101), aimed at empowering researchers, early career scientists, and underrepresented communities with the knowledge and tools necessary to embrace open science practices. All five modules of the course are accessible through a self-paced online platform. See here for more. (posted 2023-12-07)NASA FINESST (future investigators) Proposals Due Feb. 6, 2024 – ROSES-2023 Amendment 61 releases final text and due dates for F.5 FINESST. An optional, pre-proposal teleconference will occur on December 1, 2023, at 3:30 PM Eastern Time, see Section 12.8. Notices of Intent are not requested. Proposals are due February 6, 2024. (posted 2023-11-30)Seminar Announcement: NASA ABoVE Wetland Applications Knowledge Sharing Virtual Seminars –
•Wednesday Nov 29: 2pm – 3pm (ET)
•Friday Dec 1: 1pm – 2pm (ET)
•Tuesday Dec 19: 3pm – 4pm (ET)
Contact Dana Redhuis (dnvanhui@mtu.edu) for connection info. (posted 2023-11-29)2023 AGU Sessions of Interest to ABoVE (posted 2023-11-06)Two Selected Scoping Studies for the Next Terrestrial Ecology Field Campaign (posted 2023-11-02)Request for Information: Improving the Usability of the ROSES NASA Research Announcement – Responses due Jan. 24, 2024. (posted 2023-10-24)NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity: Topical Workshops, Symposiums, and Conferences (TWSC-24) in Space and Earth Sciences and Technology – Rolling submissions accepted through Nov. 30, 2026. (posted 2023-10-16)NASA Research Opportunity: ROSES 2023 A.65 FireSense Implementation Team – Notices of intent are requested by Dec. 11, 2023, and proposals are due Jan. 18, 2024. (posted 2023-10-11)ABoVE Airborne Campaign Data Fusion Internship - Summer 2024 – Seeking 1-2 motivated and organized individuals for paid summer 2024 student internships. Early decision applications due Oct. 20, 2023. Regular decision applications due Feb. 2, 2024. (posted 2023-10-10)ORNL DAAC marks 30 years of stewarding NASA terrestrial ecology data (posted 2023-10-02)Environmental Research 2023, a series of free-to-attend virtual events hosted by non-profit IOP Publishing, will take place from 18 October through to 15 November 2023. – The Ecology session on Nov 1st will be Co-Hosted by Scott Goetz and Chris Hakkenberg of Northern Arizona University and focused on "Research advances in ecology across the Earth’s major biomes”. (posted 2023-08-29)Call for Caregiver Grant for #AGU23 Meeting (Deadline is Sept 15) (posted 2023-08-28)2024 Ocean Science Meeting Session - Open for Abstract Submission – Deadline: September 13th (posted 2023-08-28)ABoVE Working Groups Update – Check out the recently updated ABoVE Working Groups webpage to join working groups, learn about activities, and view the calendar of working group meetings. (posted 2023-08-23)Call for Abstracts: AGU Session C041 - Using NASA SnowEx Data to Advance Global Snow Observations through Remote Sensing, Algorithm Development and Modeling – Deadline: August 2 (posted 2023-07-17)Request for Information: DRAFT Federal Strategy to Advance Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Monitoring for the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors – This is the follow-up strategy to the GHG MMRV draft that was released in February. Comments are due August 11, 2023. (posted 2023-07-12)A.39 Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science FAQ and Slides Posted (posted 2023-06-29)Call for Abstracts: AGU Session B083 - The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change – Deadline: August 2 (posted 2023-06-27)Job Announcement: Scientist for Federal Carbon Cycle & Social-Ecological Research (posted 2023-06-12)NASA CC&E Joint Science Workshop – was held May 8-12, 2023 in College Park, MD. (posted 2023-05-15)SnowEx Community Call - April 20 – The call will be recorded for those that can't attend live. (posted 2023-04-13)Nominations for honors and Fellows with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) are due April 12 (posted 2023-04-03)SnowEx March 2023 Tundra and Boreal Forest Field Campaign – SnowEx participants conducted a successful 10-day fieldwork campaign to collect ground-based snow validation data for the SnowEx 2023 Tundra and Boreal Forest Field Campaign, an effort supported by the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program. Ground-based measurements are coincident with two airborne instruments and a few tasked satellites. (posted 2023-03-31)Request for Information: DRAFT Federal Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Information System (GHGMIS) – Extended Deadline: April 19, 2023 (posted 2023-02-27)ABoVE Internship Opportunities 2023 – The application deadline is March 1st. (posted 2023-02-24)9th ABoVE Science Team Meeting was a success! (posted 2023-01-30)AGU Sessions of Interest! (posted 2022-12-07)NASA Research Opportunity: ROSES 2022 F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology – Notices of Intent are not requested. Proposals are due February 7, 2023. (posted 2022-11-29)Call for Members of the Science Definition Team for the Arctic-COLORS Field Campaign (posted 2022-10-03)Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems-focused AGU session – Please consider submitting an abstract to session B059 - The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change. Abstracts due August 3, 2022. (posted 2022-06-23)New ABoVE Phase 3 Projects (posted 2022-05-31)20 New Projects Selected - A.4 Terrestrial Ecology (posted 2022-05-26)New! Science Mission Directorate Bridge Program – SMD is soliciting applications from interested individuals in the community for participation as members of the SMD Bridge Program Workshop Organizing Committee. Applications are due by May 20, 2022. (posted 2022-05-02)8th ABoVE Science Team Meeting + R2O Workshop – was held in Fairbanks, AK and virtually, May 9-13, 2022. (posted 2022-03-11)OSPA Judges needed for ABoVE-related sessions at AGU (posted 2021-12-10)New Opportunity in ROSES: A.49 Earth Science Applications: Equity and Environmental Justice – This new opportunity puts an emphasis on equity and environmental justice and includes elements complementary to ABoVE.
Closes: March 18, 2022 (posted 2021-12-09)AGU Hyperwall Presentation - Thursday, Dec. 16, 11AM (posted 2021-12-07)F.5 FINESST Graduate Student Research Final Text and Due Date Released! – ROSES-2021 Amendment 50 releases final text and due date for F.5 FINESST. Notices of Intent are not requested. Proposals are due February 11, 2022. (posted 2021-12-02)NASA Earth Science Division Community Forum: Oct. 21, 2021 at 12:30pm ET. – NASA ESD leadership will update the community on the Earth System Observatory, the current Program of Record, and other Earth science news related to ESD. (posted 2021-10-13)ABoVE Phase 3 Final Text and Due Dates Released – Notices of Intent are requested by September 15, 2021 and the due date for proposals is November 17, 2021. (posted 2021-08-16)Regional Webinars – Occasional webinar series with particular focus on the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska. (posted 2021-08-12)ACCAP Webinar 7/13 at 10:00 am AKDT – "Using a random forest model to predict historical PM2.5 in Alaska" by Allison Baer. Registration required. (posted 2021-07-07)2021 AGU Sessions of Interest to ABoVE (posted 2021-06-22)Abstract Submission is Open! – 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost and 19th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering. Virtual - October 24-29. Abstracts due July 15. (posted 2021-06-09)7th ABoVE Science Team Meeting – Held virtually May 11 & 13, 2021. Presentations are available on the agenda. (posted 2021-05-11)NASA Decadal Survey Community Forum (Virtual) – April 15, 2021. 1:00-3:00pm Eastern. For information on the Decadal, upcoming Community Forums, including teleconference and WebEx information, and to provide written feedback please refer to the Decadal Surveys web page. (posted 2021-03-29)ABoVE Summer Internship Opportunities – The Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Office is seeking two interns to help with the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment activities for Summer 2021. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply for these paid virtual internship opportunities by 3/5/21. (posted 2021-02-12)NASA Research Opportunity: Suomi NPP and JPSS Satellites Standard Products for Earth System Data Records – Optional notices of intent to propose are requested by January 27, 2021 and the due date for proposals is March 10, 2021. (posted 2020-11-24)NASA Research Opportunity: The Science of Terra, Aqua, and Suomi-NPP--Proposals due Feb. 24, 2021 – ROSES-2020 Program Element A.33 The Science of Terra, Aqua, and Suomi-NPP solicits proposals to conduct integrative research using the data and products resulting from the Terra, Aqua, Suomi NPP, and JPSS (T/A/SNPP/JPSS) satellites. In addition, this program element aims to support the work of science discipline teams integrated across the T/A/SNPP/JPSS satellites (see Section 3 of this program element). This program element also provides an opportunity to develop new products for T/A/SNPP/JPSS by combining or fusing multi-sensor and multi-platform data, or by developing innovative approaches to data retrievals. (posted 2020-11-24)NASA Graduate NRA proposal due date is Feb. 4, 2021. Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) – An optional pre-proposal teleconference is scheduled November 17, 2020 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time. No earlier than 30 minutes prior to the start time, call 1-888-994-8796 (U.S.-only Toll Free) or 1-517-308-9203 (U.S. Toll) and use Participant Passcode: 3134590. (posted 2020-11-03)Now Available: March 2019 Forest Fire Research Workshop Final Report (posted 2020-10-07)COVID Salary Flexibility Extension for NASA SMD Grants – Because the government-wide flexibility in OMB memo M-20-26 ended on 9/30/20, NASA has issued Grant Notice 20-02 allowing us, on a case-by-case basis, to extend this flexibility so grantees may continue to pay salaries. (posted 2020-10-01)Extended Due Date for NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science – ROSES-2020 Amendment 53 delays the proposal due date for proposals to A.32 New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science to give more time for proposers displaced by fires in the west. Proposals are now due October 6, 2020. (posted 2020-09-15)NASA Research Opportunity: ROSES-2020 Amendment 49 releases final text for A.5 Carbon Cycle Science. Notices of intent are requested by September 28, 2020 and the due date for proposals is December 3, 2020. – ROSES-2020 Program Element A.5 Carbon Cycle Science solicits proposals for research focused on carbon stocks and fluxes between and within freshwater, marine systems, and land ecosystems, and their exchange with the atmosphere. It also targets improving understanding of carbon cycle processes and feedbacks in critical ecosystems that are particularly vulnerable to environmental change. Substantive use of remote sensing and/or airborne data is required in all studies. (posted 2020-08-26)SAVE THE DATE! 7th ABoVE Science Team Meeting and Research to Operations Workshop – to be held in Fairbanks, AK (circumstances permitting) with a virtual element May 10-14, 2021 (posted 2020-08-18)ABoVE Internship Presentations – View the schedule here (posted 2020-08-05)NASA Call for Expression of Interest (EOI) – for augmentations and funded extensions to existing funded awards to help make up for increased costs directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. EOIs are due August 21, 2020 to help estimate the size of this new program. (posted 2020-08-03)AGU 2020 ABoVE Session/Panel - Abstracts due July 29 – GC014 - Arctic and Boreal Social-Ecological Systems as Testbeds and Forerunners of Knowledge Co-Production (posted 2020-07-01)AGU 2020 ABoVE Session - Abstracts due July 29 – B077 - The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change (posted 2020-07-01)2020 AGU Sessions of Interest to ABoVE (posted 2020-06-26)First Plenary Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) Workshop – Thursday, July 9, 8:00am - 1:00pm PT / 11:00am - 4:00pm ET (posted 2020-06-17)NASA Research Announcement for Commercial Smallsat Data Analysis – Mandatory Notices of Intent are due July 1, 2020 and 5-page proposals are due September 1, 2020. Click on title to see full announcement. (posted 2020-06-16)NASA Science Mission Directorate Releases New Science Plan: Science 2020-2024: A Vision for Scientific Excellence – Members of the science community are invited to download the Science Mission Directorate's (SMD's) newest version of its Science Plan, Science 2020-2024: A Vision for Scientific Excellence, at https://science.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy. (posted 2020-05-29)Now Available: 2020 Polar Technology Conference Presentations and Recordings (posted 2020-05-11)ABoVE 6th Science Team Meeting – June 1-4, 2020 (Virtual) (posted 2020-04-08)ABoVE Cancellations in Response to COVID-19 (posted 2020-04-02)Grants and Research during the COVID-19 Epidemic, FAQ Version 4.4 (31 March 2020) (posted 2020-03-31)NASA ROSES 2020 Released – NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) 2020 as NNH20ZDA001N on or about February 14, 2020, on the NSPIRES web page. (posted 2020-02-15)Congratulations to Laura Prugh – on being named recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers. (posted 2019-11-18)NEW RELEASE – Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management & Science: A Workshop Report (posted 2019-11-18)Understanding Northern Latitude Vegetation Greening and Browning: Proceedings of a Workshop – A public webinar summarizing the workshop proceedings will be held on May 14 at 3:00 pm ET (posted 2019-11-18)19 New ABoVE Phase 2 Projects (posted 2019-11-18)NASA Group Achievement Award (posted 2019-11-18)2017 Arctic Report Card – Visual Highlights (posted 2019-11-18)Planned call for Joint NASA and ISRO airborne L+S Band SAR over North America in advance of NISAR via ROSES-2019 (posted 2019-11-18)
