Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-127
NASA BRIEFS MEDIA ON AIR QUALITY RESEARCH FLIGHTS OVER MARYLAND
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on
Thursday, June 23, to preview the upcoming series of aircraft
research flights over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor to
study urban air pollution.
NASA research satellites monitor many air pollution components, but it
is a challenge to use these measurements from space to detect
pollution near the ground. This multi-year airborne field campaign
will help improve the capability of satellites to measure near
surface-level atmospheric composition.
The campaign is called DISCOVER-AQ, or Deriving Information on Surface
Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant
to Air Quality. Beginning next week, two NASA aircraft, one of which
will fly at low altitude, will make a series of flights to measure
gaseous and particulate pollution. The flights will be coordinated
with extensive ground observation sites in Maryland from the D.C.
Beltway to the northeast of Baltimore.
The teleconference participants are:
-- Jim Crawford, DISCOVER-AQ principal investigator, NASA's Langley
Research Center, Hampton, Va.
-- Ken Pickering, DISCOVER-AQ project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
-- Dave Krask, atmospheric chemist, Maryland Department of the
Environment, Baltimore
-- Jim Szykman, research engineer, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Office of Research and Development, Hampton
-- Terry Keating, environmental scientist, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation, Washington
To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Steve
Cole at 202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov for dial-in
instructions. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on
NASA's website at:
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