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    Setting a Course for the World’s Largest Plankton Bloom

    The research vessel Atlantis in port. Credit: Michael Starobin/NASA

    by Stephanie Schollaert Uz / Woods Hole, MA / Stephanie Schollaert Uz, PhD, is an ocean scientist working in the Ocean Ecology Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Her research interests include the response of ocean biology to physics. She also coordinates communications for the future NASA ocean color satellite PACE, …

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    A Visit to Taehwa Research Forest

    Forest from above

    by Emily Schaller / OSAN AIR BASE, SOUTH KOREA / Driving up a winding, bumpy road through a peaceful forest with tall pine trees towering over us, it was easy to forget that the megacity of Seoul was only 25 miles away. This serene spot is the location of theTaehwa Mountain Forest Research site, one …

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    A “Clean” Start for First KORUS-AQ Flights

    Satellite image

    by Emily Schaller / Osan Air Base, Seoul, South Korea / After years of preparation, on Monday, May 2, the three KORUS-AQ aircraft (NASA B-200, NASA DC-8, and the Hanseo King-Air) took off for their first coordinated science flights over South Korea. More than 50 scientists, pilots and crew from NASA and the Republic of Korea …

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    Planning the Hunt for Science Flights

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    by Kate Squires / OSAN AIR BASE, SOUTH KOREA / Jay Al-Saadi of NASA's Langley Research Center discusses preliminary plans for the NASA DC-8 and B-200 during a forecasting meeting. Credit: NASA/Jane Peterson The science equipment is unloaded and jetlag has subsided for the KORUS-AQ team here getting settled in at Osan Air Base. Now …

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