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ADNET personnel played key roles in the creation of the NASA HQ Earth Information Center in Washington
Posted On: July 19, 2023Comments: No Responses
The Earth Information Center (EIC), located in the east lobby of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington opened its doors to both NASA personnel and the public following a ribbon cutting ceremony led by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on June 21. The EIC allows visitors to see how the planet is changing […]
GISS Hosts GSFC Leadership
Posted On: December 28, 2022Comments: No Responses
GISS has been in the news again – 2 weeks after supporting the NASA administrator’s visit, GISS hosted GSFC leadership including Dennis Andrucyk, the Director of GSFC. ADNET staff and GISS’ FOM Sabrina Hosein organized both visits, improvising a presentation space in the midst of our building renovations that showed GISS in its best light.
SESDA Supports Artemis I Mission
Posted On: December 12, 2022Comments: No Responses
The Moon to Mars (M2M) Space Weather Analysis Office is supporting the Artemis I mission by monitoring space weather conditions and providing expert analysis to NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG). M2M is running various models and software as part of the Integrated Solar Energetic Proton Alert/Warning System (ISEP) project and has a dedicated space […]
ADNET staff supported NASA Administrator Bill Nelson’s visit to GISS in New York
Posted On: November 14, 2022Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff set up and monitored a climate-focused All Hands meeting held at GISS with NASA’s Administrator Bill Nelson and ensured that all went smoothly. Turnout was over 60 people.
ADNET Scientists Analyze Micronesian Phytoplankton
Posted On: September 28, 2022Comments: No Responses
ADNET scientists Jim Acker and Alexis Hunzinger recently authored a study that was featured on the cover of the journal Earth. In October 2013, ocean color remote sensing data acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite showed a unique elevated phytoplankton chlorophyll feature extending eastward from Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated […]
SESDA Assists Lava Tube Modeling
Posted On: June 30, 2022Comments: No Responses
In support of NASA’s Goddard Instrument Field Team (GIFT), SESDA’s Caela Barry acted as the logistics and public engagement lead during a May field trip to California’s Medicine Lake Volcano and Lava Beds National Monument. While there, the team used instrumentation such as magnetometers, LIDAR, and ground penetrating radar to locate, map, and characterize several […]
SESDA Team Investigates Betelgeuse Surface Mass Ejection
Posted On: June 14, 2022Comments: No Responses
The Astrophysical Journal has accepted for publication the paper, “The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: A Surface Mass Ejection (SME) and its Consequences” by Dupree et al. The paper analyzed special data taken by the SESDA team using the SECCHI/HI-2 telescope on STEREO Ahead, taking advantage of the spacecraft’s unique position, and rolling by 180°, to […]
SESDA Supports Successful Rocket Launch From Norway
Posted On: June 3, 2022Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to NASA/GSFC and its partners on the successful launch of the Endurance suborbital rocket on May 10, 2022 at from Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway. Despite numerous challenges that included blizzard weather conditions, delayed shipments of essential flight hardware, a snow mobile accident, and an extensive COVID-19 outbreak at the launch base, the team bravely persevered with resolving […]
Using AI/ML to Discover Comets
Posted On: April 22, 2022Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff has supported operations of SOHO’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) for over 25 years. One of the primary objectives of this instrument is to image the solar corona to study phenomena such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s). A remarkable and unintended by-product of LASCO has been the discovery of over 4000 sungrazing […]
HECN Team Demonstrates High-Speed Networking at SC21
Posted On: January 31, 2022Comments: No Responses
At the SuperComputing 2021 (SC21) event, the SESDA HECN team demonstrated the use of NVMe over Fabric over TCP (NVMe-OF/TCP) technology across a 400-GigE wide-area network (WAN) infrastructure using 200-GigE Mellanox NICs, NVMe SSD drives, and PCIe Gen4 x16 slots in the demo servers. The new NVMe-OF/TCP technology is now fully supported by recent Linux […]
