Greetings from HAQAST

Dear HAQAST Community,
We are excited to announce the fourth generation of HAQAST has been selected! As Team Lead for the last two iterations of HAQAST (“hay-kast”), it is a huge honor to continue in this role. I am looking forward to sharing the work of our new members and continuing the successes of our returning members. We will also continue to share publications and other news of prior HAQAST work on our website (HAQAST.org).

This new generation of HAQAST brings a range of expertise from universities and NASA centers across the country, and includes: Daniel Anderson (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore Co.), Xi Chen (Univ. of Iowa), Arlene Fiore (MIT), Pawan Gupta (NASA Goddard), Jennifer Kaiser (Georgia Tech), Carl Malings (Morgan St. Univ.), Jingqiu Mao (Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks), Randall Martin (Washington Univ.), Aaron Naeger (NASA Marshall), Jeffrey Pierce (Colorado St. Univ.) Amber Soja (NASA Langley), Travis Toth (NASA Langley), Christopher Ueijo (Florida St. Univ.), and Tracey Holloway (Team Lead, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

And, thanks all who attended the HAQAST Showcase in January! Recordings, slides and photos are now available on our website.  

Stay tuned for more updates on future Tiger Teams meetings with this newsletter, the HAQAST website (https://haqast.org/) and our LinkedIn. We look forward to connecting with everyone!
 
Upcoming Meetings and Events of Interest


  • Ongoing, self-paced - ARSET Fundamentals of Remote Sensing.
  • August 11 - 15 - AmeriGEO Week, in Bogota, Colombia and online. See more here.
  • August 19 - 22 - Joint TEMPO/ACX Science Team Meeting - Learn more and register here. Register by June 16.
 
Internships and Jobs

If you are hiring, please let us know where you typically post – we’d love to help the community connect. If you post on LinkedIn and tag NASA HAQAST, we will repost. Here are a few of the jobs boards which often include opportunities relevant to the health, air quality and remote sensing communities.

  • American Public Health Association job board: https://careers.apha.org/jobs/
  • American Geophysical Union job board: https://findajob.agu.org/jobs/
  • Green Jobs Board: https://greenjobs.net/
  • Earth Science Jobs Network: https://eswnonline.org/resource/the-earth-science-jobs-network-es_jobs_net/
  • National Association of Clean Air Agencies: https://www.4cleanair.org/job-postings/
 
Call for Manuscripts

  • TEMPO Data Products, Science and Applications. This special collection (JGR: Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, and Earth and Space Science) focuses on TEMPO data products, including their development, demonstration of societal benefits, usage through data assimilation or analysis to improve understanding Earth and atmospheric processes, and their synergy with other satellite data products. Submissions are due December 31, 2025. More here.
 
Data

One Month of Preliminary TEMPO Aerosol Products Now Available
These products were developed using NOAA aerosol algorithms.  The aerosol products are available for the sunlit portion of the TEMPO Field of Regard.  This is an initial, targeted release to test the potential of the products for research and applications and to obtain feedback from known users of satellite aerosol products. NOAA will transition the final versions of the products to operations for general release when they reach “fully validated” product maturity status, with the plan to provide August 2023 - December 2024 aerosol products through NASA Earthdata.
  • Preliminary TEMPO Aerosol Optical Depth and Aerosol Layer Height, and User's Guide
  • Preliminary TEMPO Aerosol Detection Product (smoke and dust detection) and UV Aerosol Index and User's Guide
  • Preliminary True Color (RGB) Images
  • Preliminary Estimated Surface PM2.5 Concentration and User's Guide
For questions about the TEMPO Aerosol products, please contact Hai.Zhang@noaa.gov, Pub.Ciren@noaa.gov, or Amy.Huff@noaa.gov and copy Shobha.Kondragunta@noaa.gov.

TOLNet Seeks PIs to Host Ozone Lidars
TOLNet (Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network) is seeking willing PIs to host Ozone Lidars.  If you are interested in hosting a TOLNet/SMOL lidar, please fill out the form below so that the TOLNet Science Team can capture this information/justification and begin further logistical discussions.  TOLNet is the key instrument for validating the upcoming TEMPO ozone profile product. https://forms.gle/pg7Vb5GM8WgALDvt8

Using Satellite Data for Volcanic Plumes
The COMET Program is pleased to announce the publication of the new lesson, "Ash and SO2 RGB Satellite Imagery Analysis for Volcanic Plumes”. This lesson highlights the use of the GOES-R Ash and SO2 RGB to assess the composition of volcanic plumes. The intended audience for "Ash and SO2 RGB Satellite Imagery Analysis for Volcanic Plumes” includes operational forecasters interested in practicing how the Ash and SO2 RGB satellite products can be used to analyze the emissions of volcanic plumes. Resources for more information are provided at the end of the lesson. 

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 PM2.5, total PM10, and chemically speciated PM2.5 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.
 
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) and Jenny (bratburd@wisc.edu).
All the best,
NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST)