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This rectangular image shows phytoplankton levels along Florida and the East Coast of the United States, the Bahamas, and Cuba. Land is colored in muted shades of brown and green, water is dark blue, and snow is white. Nearshore are bands of light to dark green depicting picoeukaryote organism levels. Further out to sea are regions in variations of light blue showing the presences of prochlorococcus cyanobacteria.

New PACE Data Tutorials

A series of Jupyter notebook tutorials show how to retrieve and use data from NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.
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Wearing a wet suit and a life vest, Dr. James Allen poses for a photo on the deck of a ship in the North Atlantic prior to dropping a sensor into the water.

Dr. James G. Allen

NASA Earth science data help scientists like Dr. James G. Allen develop processes for better satellite retrievals of ocean parameters.
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Swirls of phytoplankton in Lake Michigan on 22 October 2022 (HLS/Sentinel 2A & 2B)

Phytoplankton Swirls in Lake Michigan

Image captured on Oct 22, 2022 by the MSI instrument aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites.
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Announcing NASA PACE Applications Workshop September 14-15

The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Applications team invites the research, applied sciences, and decision-making communities to the 2022 PACE Applications *virtual* workshop to be held September 14-15, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., EDT (UTC/GMT-4).
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Dr. Zachary Erickson

Dr. Zachary Erickson

Data from NASA’s OB.DAAC helps scientists like Dr. Zachary Erickson study the ocean’s role in the global carbon cycle
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Cecile Rousseaux, Research Scientist, Universities Space Research Association/NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO)

Cecile S. Rousseaux

Who uses NASA Earth science data? Cecile S. Rousseaux, to study the effects of climate on ocean biogeochemistry, specifically on phytoplankton.
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Adnan Al-Azri, Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences & Fisheries, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Adnan Al-Azri

Who uses NASA Earth science data? Adnan Al-Azri, to study why periodic harmful blooms of algae occur in the Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea.
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Headshot of Signorini sitting at his desk with a computer monitor behind him

Dr. Sergio Signorini

Who uses NASA Earth science data? Dr. Sergio Signorini, to study the impact of climate variability on phytoplankton and Earth’s oceans.
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