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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
by Patrick Lynch / KEFLAVIK, ICELAND / On Monday morning, the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) team left the chill of Keflavik (32 degrees Fahrenheit but with a relentless, stinging wind) for the more ruthless cold of -8 degrees Fahrenheit in Thule, Greenland. Before landing, the seven-person team will fly over coastline near Thule today to …
