Six students from the 2011 NASA Student Airborne ResearchProgram (SARP) will present the results of their summer research at the 2011American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Thespecial session for the SARP presentations will take place at in the Exhibit Hall at the NASA booth on Wednesday, December 7 from 11:30 AM-1:00 PM.
Learn more about SARP by watching the 2011 video
Applications are now being accepted for SARP 2012.
Download the application here:
DISCOVER-AQ is a multi-year air quality research campaign that stands for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality.
Two NASA research aircraft, the P-3B and UC-12, flew a series of profiles over six selected ground stations that monitor urban air quality in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area.
Researchers chose the month of July to conduct the first DISCOVER-AQ mission, because that is when pollution peaks in the Baltimore-Washington area.
The data collected from the aircraft and ground sites will be used to assess how satellites interpret air quality near Earth’s surface. Satellites have difficulty distinguishing between pollution that is high in the atmosphere and pollution at Earth’s surface.
