Current Projects

ASIA-AQ

The Asian Satellite Investigation of Air Quality (ASIA-AQ) campaign is a NASA funded project to investigate the causes and duration of poor air quality in southeast Asia. ASIA-AQ is an opportunity for international collaboration, working with local partners to apply multi-perspective observations in a consistent strategy across interested Asian countries to improve both specific understanding of local air quality issues and general understanding of common challenges in the interpretation of satellite observations and modeling of air quality. This project will improve understanding of the factors controlling local air quality across Asia through multi-perspective observations and modeling. We provided high quality and high frequency ethane measurements during the Spring ‘24 deployment. Ethane can be used to identify the influence of oil and natural gas activities as well as upscale lower frequency hydrocarbons that are well correlated to ethane.

GROWS

The Global to Regional: Origins of Water Stress (GROWS) project is a NASA funded initiative to understand the transport and fate of water vapor into the mountain west. This area is experiencing an unprecedented ‘megadrought’ and understanding how water stress will evolve in the future is necessary to inform decision making and mitigation efforts. Water is transported globally, meaning the climate impact in regions far away end up impacting water resources in the mountain west. This collaborative project seeks to improve our climate project of water availability in this region by coupling advanced climate model projections with observations in this region.