The student ballooning team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities went to work tracking the plume of a pyrocumulonimbus cloud.
Adventures in Wildfire Smoke Stratospheric Ballooning
Re-Connecting on the North Slope: NASA FORTE’s Summer 2025 Pre-Field Visit
In July 2025, NASA’s Earth Venture Suborbital Mission FORTE went into action on the North Slope of Alaska.
Catching the Light: Taking the Pulse of Puerto Rico’s Forests
Our team from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Biospheric Sciences Laboratory is working to improve how satellites monitor plant health.
CASCADES: A Journey Along Greenland’s Coast Where Ocean Meets Ice
CASCADES is an international, multidisciplinary expedition bringing together glaciologists, marine-mammal observers, microbiologists, geologists, and biogeochemists.
Unlocking Forest Diversity from Above: Fieldwork at Smithsonian’s BiodiversiTREE
Laying groundwork for using airborne remote sensing to better understand the characteristics of forest species diversity.
NASA Heads to the ‘City of Trees’ to Test New Tools for Observing Wildfires
NASA’s FireSense Technology program goes into the field to test our newest instruments that could help with wildland fire management.
Crossing Maine’s Waters in Pursuit of GNATS
The Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, or GNATS, produces data that is used to validate NASA’s suite of ocean color satellites.
Keeping PACE with Ocean Change
The primary goal of this collaboration was to support and validate science data products from NASA's recently launched Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission
Up, Up, and Away With Weather Balloons
A dozen students participating in NASA’s 2026 Student Airborne Research Program collected data about the atmosphere, using a weather balloon that measures ozone concentrations as it rises.