Category:Earth Observations
Updates: April/May 2015
Environmental Security: Earth Science Programs Cut
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Re: funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs
On May 1, 2015, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. John P. Holdren issued the following statement on proposed funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs:
"If enacted, the NASA authorization bill headed to the House floor later this month would do serious damage to the Nation’s space program, as well as to Earth-observation and Earth-science programs essential for predicting, preparing for, and minimizing the damage from disasters both natural and human-induced.
The House bill would also gut the NASA “mission to planet Earth”—the satellite observations and related research that provide key measurements and insights relevant to forecasting and tracking hurricanes, fighting wildfires, observing the state of the world’s farms and forests, mapping the extent of droughts, measuring the stocks of groundwater, and monitoring the likelihood of landslides. The draconian cuts in the House bill would also delay advances in our ability to research and prepare for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis and blind us to changes in the Earth’s oceans and ice sheets that can be discerned only from space."
New Definitions of National Security
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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarthRightNow?src=hash
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html
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December 2014
Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014
Initial OCO-2 data available in March for scientists and public to download and explore
Phys.org - Discovery - Weather - Nature
Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal
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November
Counting carbon over Southern California - OCO-2 at work
October
September
August
August 13th/Climate Central news report of first data
July 2 2014
- Watching the Planet Breathe
NASA Launches New Carbon-Sensing Mission to Monitor Earth’s 'Breathing'
"Climate change is the challenge of our generation," says NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
- Follow the OCO-2 Mission
Follow the tweets of the OCO-2 bird
Follow the NASA climate blog
http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ -- http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/
"Game changing" science Unraveling mysteries
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- Climate Change, Global Warming
Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2
Historic launch #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere
"First Light!" [1] [2] OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'
OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2
What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 #Earth360
Earth observing satellites, Orbiting Carbon Observatory the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by #OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming
"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space" [3] [4] [5] [6]
About the Earth Observatory Mission
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With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways
#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy
"You can manage only what you can measure"
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Eyes on the Earth [7] [8] [9] [10]
Subcategories
This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
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Pages in category "Earth Observations"
The following 167 pages are in this category, out of 167 total.
- Biodiversity
- Earth Law
- Earth Science
- Ecology Studies
- Environmental Full-cost Accounting
- Environmental Security, National Security
- EOS eco Operating System
- Externalities
- Land Ethic
- New Space
- Planet Citizen
- Planet Scientist
- Sustainability
- Sustainability Policies
- ThinBlueLayer
- Atmospheric Science
- Biogeosciences
- Climate Change
- Cryosphere
- Geophysics and Geochemistry
- Mineralogy
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Hydrology
- Natural Resources
- Ocean Science
- Planetary Science
- Space Science and Space Physics