by Emily Schaller and Jane Peterson / OSAN AIR BASE, SOUTH KOREA / Reporters board the NASA DC-8 aircraft to talk with researchers about the many instruments in the flying laboratory. (Credit: NASA/Jane Peterson) On Friday April 29, over 100 guests and media attended the official kickoff of the Korean US Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field experiment …
by Emily Schaller / SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA / Looking out the window while descending toward Incheon International Airport near Seoul, earlier this week, I couldn't help but notice the hazy, yellowish brown layer covering the city. For several days before the flight, I had been using various apps, websites and Twitter feeds to track air quality …
by Kate Squires / PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA / They met at an air quality-monitoring site near downtown Seoul over a decade ago. Now the husband-and-wife team of atmospheric chemists are working together on the KORUS-AQ field experiment that gets underway this week in South Korea. Jeong-Hoo Park is the lead Korean scientist for KORUS-AQ and senior …
by Denise Lineberry / HAMPTON, VIRGINIA / A few days before leaving for South Korea and the start of the Korea U.S.-Air Quality study (KORUS-AQ) field campaign, lead U.S. project scientist Jim Crawford, 52, from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, answered a few questions about the mission and his career studying air quality …
by Kate Squires/ PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA/ There are many layers to orchestrating a mission as complex as the Korean U.S. Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) study, which gets underway next week in South Korea. Preparing the aircraft and science instruments to come together as one is just a single layer, but it's an extremely important one for ensuring a …
