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all right good evening everybody thank
you all for coming to the NASA hyperwall

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I know it's not just all about the books
right everybody's here to learn

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something, so thank you for sitting and
listening to this I'm just here to give

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an overview of what we do at our science
at NASA and a lot of people don't know

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that NASA has an earth science division
and what we do is, next slide please,

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we use the unique vantage point of space
currently our 23 Earth observing

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satellites to look at different
properties of our global world some of

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these are focused on the biosphere some
of these are focused on the cryosphere

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and we can study many aspects of the
Earth's system and at NASA we use this

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information to explore and that
exploration leads to discovery which

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leads to research so our overarching
goal is to understand and protect our

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home planet for societal benefit, next
slide, so I just want to give you an

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overview since our science at NASA is
about to turn 50 we started to talk

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about some of the major highlights of
our findings both basic and applied

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research over the years, um, and what we
realized in doing this is that some of

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what we do some of the images we're able
to project some of the predictions were

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able to make with models actually looks
somewhat like artwork, so we can do

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things like make basic research
observations of aerosols and different

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types of aerosols and use them and feed
them into climate and weather prediction

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and that's what you're seeing here so
this is a simulation of aerosols during

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the 2017 hurricane season, you can see a
number of different aerosols on the

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bottom you could also track the
Hurricanes by name, next slide, and so one

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of the most iconic stories I think to
come out of NASA mat of science in

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general was actually detailing the hole
in the ozone layer in the 70s and how

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this led to things like the Montreal
Protocol and actually led to it doing

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things like monitoring the progress of
the recovery of the whole in the

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ozone layer it is very important for
shielding Earth from a lot of harmful

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radiation and how the effect of the
Montreal Protocol led to its recovery

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over time and it's been relatively
stable since the

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1990s but I think satellite data are
absolutely critical in getting that

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global observation and when coupled with
in situ observations no matter what

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aspect of the Earth System properties
were looking at it's very important for

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giving us motion forward scientifically,
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so one of the other I think

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truly iconic animations and something
were able to detail over time is looking

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at changes in ice cover at the poles and
this shows you the annual Arctic sea ice

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minimum starting in 1979 with the graph
that overlays and shows the big drops

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over the last ten years and so to be
able to track this change over time

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allows us to not only explore spatially
but temporally rate so what we're able

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to do is identify changes and long term
trends in our climate, next slide

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Thanks

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so the other animation I like to show is
20 years of Earth's biosphere now if you

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know anything about biology on the earth
it supports a tremendous economy

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worldwide both on land and in the ocean
and what I like about this animation is

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it's like watching the Earth breathe,
okay, you can actually see many changes

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over time and in addition you can
actually understand the impacts of

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atmospheric phenomenon on our land and
on our oceans, next slide

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so one of the

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other pieces that's very important and
in 10 minutes I don't have enough time

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to show you all of what we do at NASA
but taking this time series of

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information, all of this spatial
information, all of the temporal

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information and actually using it for a
predictive capability is really

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important and so this is a GEOS-5 model
run different properties shown in each

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panel and it can be used to look at
changes in the atmosphere and those

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impacts of the changes in the atmosphere
on the rest of the Earth system over

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time and this is a constantly evolving
animation because we initialize the

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models with actual data and then can use
some of it to do hind

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casting and forecasting, next slide

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so the
only thing that's I think what's really

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unique at NASA is not only having the
research programs embedded with some of

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the satellite information but we also do
Applied Sciences okay and that means we

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take all of our research findings all of
our research data products and try to

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transition them into the hands of
managers conservationists and you listen

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very closely to see if there's something
that they need that they're not getting

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that we can actually produce and so one
of the things that I think is important

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to look at over time is not only the
coverage and recovery of things like

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fires and this is Yellowstone but
actually looking at the lasting effects

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of things like wildfires and actually
feeding that information forward to

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firefighters as things are going on, so
this is the burn recovery in Yellowstone

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and you can really see how some of the
fires caused scars that take a long time

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to recover if at all next slide

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thank you so one of the other things I
thought was really unique to show was

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some of you may remember in 2018 and why
there were a number of volcanic

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eruptions for a good chunk of the year
and so what you're seeing right now is

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sort of the before picture before the
Kilauea eruptions of 2018 and then

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you'll see some thermal imagery that
shows you the actual eruptions and then

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you'll see another LandSat shot that
shows you what the area looked like

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after, we can feed this information
forward to managers on the ground and

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policymakers it can be very helpful and
they're planning for the future and

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their recovery, so while we don't really
do any management or policymaking at

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NASA a lot of what we do is policy
relevant and we're constantly looking

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for those synergies, next slide, okay and
so I love this one this is actually GPM

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data and I remember one day this summer
there was a horrific day of rainstorms

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in Washington and it just so happens
that GPM was passing over and we were

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able to catch her capture in the
Washington DC region this horrible

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deluge of rain that left us with like
four inches of rain in one day

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and so Gail Skofronik-Jackson the GPM
program scientist said you know we

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happen to catch this and she said this
one forward and I think Thomas Zurbuchen

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but--can tweeted it out that day and we
just thought it was what a what a chain

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of events to actually capture the local
real rainstorm and get a picture of it

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from one of our Earth observing
satellites and of course one of the

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things that NASA does is feed a lot of
this information into weather prediction

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next slide,

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okay so it's your planet
right, we're turning 50 it's one of those

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things that you say well there are a lot
of things that we could still do and

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we're always thinking about that we have
a lot of new missions and formulation

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and a lot in development and I know
around the corner a lot of you have

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queued up, next slide, for what's what we
call our new Earth at Night book and just

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because the earth is dark doesn't mean
there aren't things going on that we can

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measure and understand
we've actually used this nightlights

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product and fed this information forward
not for just managing recovery from

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natural disasters but also doing things
like tracking illegal unreported and

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unregulated fishing so these images even
at night when things look serene and

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very quiet can be very useful for our
science, so with that I will say thank

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you I hope you all stay here and learn
something more about Earth science at NASA