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Greetings from HAQAST
Dear HAQAST Community,
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We hope you all had a great summer! We have some news on NASA funding, HAQAST publications, website changes, and personnel changes to share in this newsletter.
New HAQAST Outreach Coordinator
We are excited to announce we have new Outreach Coordinator, Mattie Bindl! Mattie and Jenny are working together on HAQAST outreach activities in September, and Mattie is taking the reins starting in October. So, this is our last newsletter featuring Jenny in her current role. Fortunately, Jenny will stay involved with ongoing projects as she focuses her efforts on public health research, especially the application of Earth observations to health-related policy and planning. Jenny is handing off the HAQAST Outreach baton to Mattie, in the final months of her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in the Environment & Resources program. Mattie is already getting up-to-speed, and she will be continuing in this role after her defense.
From Mattie: Hello HAQAST Community! My name is Matilyn (Mattie) Bindl, and I am delighted to be the incoming Outreach Coordinator for HAQAST. I look forward to supporting the work of this team, and meeting many of you at the HAQAST meeting in Atlanta. Although I am new to this role, I worked with Tracey on projects using TROPOMI NO2 before starting grad school, and I attended HAQAST meetings back in 2018 and 2019. I am truly excited to be part of the team again! I am learning so much from Jenny, and I look forward to learning from all of you!
From Jenny: It has been a a delight to work with the HAQAST community, and I am so grateful to have had this opportunity and learn so much in the last five years! I will be transitioning to a full-time scientist in Climate Solutions for Health lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison by the end of this month. It is a bittersweet to leave this coordination role, but I am excited for Mattie take up the reins and I will still be involved in HAQAST as co-I on Tracey's project! My email is same (bratburd@wisc.edu), and would love to stay in touch and collaborate in the future!
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Save the Date!
We are planning the next HAQAST meeting for January 7 - 8, 2027, in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia Institute of Technology campus.
Register here and check our website for updates! If you are interested in presenting, please let us know on your registration.
Find more about the information on our website:
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HAQAST News
Tiger Teams
Our eight Tiger Teams have launched -- feel free to reach out with team leads or with us if you are interested in being involved.
- Curating a Remote Sensing Training Atlas for Health and Air Quality, led by Pawan Gupta. The Training Atlas team is soliciting personas or profiles for different types of people who might be interested to use the new Atlas being designed by this team to search for capacity-building resources. You can add your input with this form.
- HAQAST Support for AIR4US Implementation, led by Carl Malings. Anyone interested interested in participating in the stakeholder engagement group and being involved in beta trials of AIR4US should sign up here.
- Ensuring Continuity Across Satellite Transitions: Quantifying Uncertainty in Long-Term Air Quality and Fire Records, led by Amber Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov)
- Distinguishing Prescribed Fire versus Wildfire in the Contiguous US for Fire Management and Health and Air Quality Organizations, led by Talat Odman and Amber Soja (talat.odman@ce.gatech.edu and amber.j.soja@nasa.gov)
- Using NASA Observations to Characterize Dust Plume Transport for Air Quality and Public Health Solutions, led by Travis Toth (travis.d.toth@nasa.gov)
- Leveraging Low-Cost Sensor Networks and Satellite-Derived Products for Air Quality Advisories, led by Jingqiu Mao (jmao2@alaska.edu). The team recently created a one-page regarding the PutpleAir network for researchers and air quality managers, which you can find here.
- Establishing Best Practices for TEMPO Formaldehyde Observations in Regulatory Applications: Demonstrations in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York, led by Jen Kaiser (jennifer.kaiser@ce.gatech.edu)
- Analysis of TEMPO Ozone Profile Data for Monitoring Ozone Exceedances, led by Aaron Naeger (aaron.naeger@nasa.gov)
Website change
We have recently updated our website. The new primary URL is https://haqast.wisc.edu/ . The haqast.org links should redirect to the new pages. If you have any issues, please feel free to let us know!
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HAQAST Publications
Publications
You can find the latest HAQAST publications here! Some recent highlights are included below:
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Upcoming Meetings and Events of Interest
- In case you missed it: NASA ARSET Training - Estimating Surface PM2.5 Using Satellite Data and Other Information Sources. This training covers the theoretical approaches and key datasets to estimate historical PM2.5 from satellite aerosol optical depth. Learn more and register here.
- FireAQ Weekly Briefings. These meetings are aimed to provide a retrospective analysis for the air quality the week back and an outlook of the air quality a week ahead focusing on the smoke impact. Anyone interested please email fireaq+subscribe@googlegroups.com to subscribe the meeting notification, including the detailed time and date of the meetings, as well as Zoom link. Learn more here.
- September 11, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT: Dust Alliance of North America webinar. The first of the Fall 2026, this talk will be on Dust in the American West: Trends, Causes, and New Observations. Register for this talk, and any of the rest of the Fall series here.
- September 22 - 23: NASA POWER Global Community Summit. In-person at NASA Langley and online. The NASA POWER 2026 Global Community (GloCo) Summit is a free two-day, hybrid event aimed at fostering meaningful connections, exchanging valuable insights, and exploring new opportunities to support users with the energy, infrastructure, agroclimatology communities. Reigster here.
- September 23, 1:00 - 2:00 pm EDT: PACE Yourself for Faster Science: Accessing PACE Land Products with NASA Earthdata’s AppEEARS webinar. Learn more and register here.
- September 24, 12:00 - 4:00 pm EDT: CAFE Half-Day Online Event: Informing Heat Solutions. Learn how researchers, implementation experts, practitioners, and community members are turning extreme heat research into solutions through expert panels, lightning talks, and a showcase of public-facing heat tools. Register here.
- October 13 - 15: NASA ARSET training - Geostationary Remote Sensing of Aerosols for Air Quality Applications in North America. This ARSET training provides an overview of TEMPO aerosol products for air quality applications using NOAA's AerosolWatch website. Learn more and register here.
- December 7 - 11, 2026: American Geophysical Union. More info.
- January 7 - 8, 2027: HAQAST Atlanta meeting! Register and learn more here: https://haqast.wisc.edu/haqast-atlanta/
- January 10 - 14, 2027: American Meteorological Society. Abstracts due August 11th. More info.
- Ongoing, self-paced - ARSET Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (link here).
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Funding Opportunities
New NASA funding opportunities
Some new opportunities that may be of interest in the NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences 2025 ( ROSES-2025).
Health and Extreme Weather Actionable Solutions Grants Program - CAFE, the research coordinating center of the NIH Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) Program is offering grants of up to $20,000 to support innovative, solutions-oriented projects addressing health and extreme weather challenges. Apply by September 15. Learn more here.
Horizon Europe Environmental research
€210 million now available under Horizon Europe for innovative research in food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture, and environment. Apply by September 17.
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Data and Tools
NASA Earth Science Applications Guidebook
The Guidebook is a new resource designed to help Earth scientists turn their research into real-world impact. It draws on the experience of more than 50 NASA and NASA-funded scientists to provide practical guidance on Earth Action projects including:
- Understanding NASA’s Earth Science to Action strategy
- Developing competitive Earth Action proposals
- Managing successful applications projects
HAQAST Smoke Console
The HAQAST Smoke Console is a tool developed by NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to streamline the analysis of satellite data for air quality management. Built on Google Earth Engine (GEE), the console integrates 21 layers of satellite measurements, meteorological data, and air quality reanalysis products to assist in creating Exceptional Event Demonstrations (EEDs) for ozone and PM 2.5 air quality standard exceedances caused by wildland and prescribed fires. The console provides a user-friendly interface for visualizing and analyzing data, including TROPOMI CO, NO₂, HCHO, MODIS AOD, MERRA-2 black carbon, and dust flux vectors, and surface air quality observations. It enables air quality managers to construct narrative conceptual models, analyze meteorological conditions, track smoke transport, and provide evidence of smoke or dust reaching the surface. In addition, the console includes automated event flagging algorithms and allows users to export data for further analysis, making it a comprehensive resource for addressing exceptional events related to smoke. For more information, see the User Guide, Javascript code for GEE, and Web App.
New Python Library for NASA Earthdata
earthaccess is a Python library to search for and download or stream NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code. earthaccess is a highly active, open-source, and community-driven library developed by NASA DAACs, private industry, and the broader NASA data user community. Learn more here.
TEMPO Updates
The previous TEMPO data version (V03) was released publicly on May 24, 2024, and covered the period from August 2, 2023, to September 16, 2025. All observations since the beginning of the mission are being reprocessed with V04 algorithms, with V04 products becoming publicly available as they are reprocessed. Find new updates on TEMPO here.
TEMPO data are now available on Google Earth Engine (currently nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde). You can find start code here. You can also find other trainings and tutorials for working with TEMPO data on various platforms here.
PACE Updates
The PACE Science Data Segment completed a reprocessing of the SPEXone and HARP2 Level-1C products. This V4 reprocessing is a significant update of the calibration for both sensors. Learn more and see more updates here: https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Ozonerates: Photochemically produced ozone (PO3) datasets, Python package, interactive map
Using bias-corrected HCHO and NO 2 retrievals along with other geophysical variables, this product generates PO₃ from OMI and TROPOMI data. The website also contains a Python package to predict PO₃, and an online interactive map to visualize the datasets.
MAIA Surface Monitor Data Product
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) project and NASA Langley's Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) is excited to announce the release of the MAIA Surface Monitor Data Product. These products include ground-based measurements of total PM 2.5, total PM 10, and chemically speciated PM 2.5 at various locations within MAIA’s globally distributed set of Primary Target Areas (PTAs). Applications of these data include air quality, climate, and epidemiological research. Details about the sources of surface PM monitors used in the MAIA project can be found here. Learn more about the MAIA surface monitoring network here and access the PM and PM2.5 datasets.
Archived Datasets
If you are looking for data from retired federal websites, check out the Public Environmental Data Partners archive. The website includes the option to nominate data for preservation.
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Internships and Jobs
If you are hiring, please feel free to share via email or LinkedIn – we’d love to help the community connect!
Job Boards
Here are a few of the jobs boards which often include opportunities relevant to the health, air quality and remote sensing communities.
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Connect with HAQAST
We are always appreciative of your interest and involvement in the team. If you have colleagues who might also be interested, please invite them to sign up on our mailing list. You can also follow and connect with HAQAST on LinkedIn, or reach out personally with Tracey (taholloway@wisc.edu).
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