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Research Highlights
 The Storm Trooper
Software developers at the ITSC, working with atmospheric scientists at NASA / MSFC, have developed the Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM), a tool that uses Google Earth to combine up-to-the-minute weather imagery with live aircraft flight data. During a past hurricane mission near Cape Verde, Africa, RTMM allowed scientists on the ground to keep the aircraft away from dangerous lightning while the researchers gathered data. In addition, RTMM is used to ensure that scientists stay near the action. Michael Goodman, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, states, "These are dynamic weather situations, so we are much better able to coordinate our assets if we know where a plane is in relation to the weather." More>>
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 NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution
This week, NASA began ARCTAS (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites), the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic. The campaign began in Fairbanks, Alaska the week of March 30, 2008, and Dr. Matt He of the ITSC will be working with scientists to gather this information. More>>
View article on the NASA website
 ITSC in the News
UAH dramatically expanded its research network capabilities with a deal giving it 20 years of access to its own fiber optic cable. The deal gives the university the ability to manage multiple high-speed computer and communications networks and links it to a national fiber optic network connecting the country's leading research universities. Our own Sandra Harper helped coordinate the project, purchasing optical equipment and working with the schools, NASA, and vendors. She said that the project will allow UAH and other parties to do "big science," data-intensive projects such as climate modeling, grid computing, and visualization systems. More>>
View article on the al.com website
 Mining Web Services
Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) provide a standard web-based software framework to support distributed data processing solutions. The merging of these technologies with the robust and versatile Algorithm Development and Mining (ADaM) toolkit has produced a suite of easily deployable Mining Web Services that provide the scientific community with powerful data mining capabilities. More>>
 NOESIS
A meta search engine and resource aggregator, Noesis is designed specifically for atmospheric science. It uses ontologies to guide users to refine their search query, producing better search results and reducing the user’s burden to experiment with different search strings. More>>
 SCOOP
The SCOOP program is helping to create an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) for the nation by providing IT applications that will help unite the distributed coastal science community. The ITSC is responsible for two main SCOOP tasks. More>>
 NAMMA
Based in the Cape Verde Islands, the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign, sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of NASA, is
a field research investigation into the birthing process of tropical hurricanes. The major research topics of this mission examine the formation and evolution of tropical hurricanes in the eastern and central Atlantic and their impact on the U.S. east coast, and the composition and structure of the Saharan Air Layer, and whether aerosols affect cloud precipitation and influence cyclone development. More>>
GoMRC
 The Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaborative (GoMRC) focuses on environmental monitoring of seagrasses, wetlands, algal blooms, estuaries, coastal restoration, and protected areas in the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
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