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Early Adopters

The PACE Early Adopter program promotes applied science and applications research designed to scale and integrate PACE data into policy, business, and management activities that benefit society and inform decision making.

Who are Early Adopters?

PACE Early Adopters are groups and individuals who:
  1. Have a direct, clearly-defined need for PACE ocean color, aerosol, cloud or polarimetry data;
  2. Have an existing application or new ideas for novel PACE-related applications;
  3. Currently work with application end user(s) and can describe their decision-making process;
  4. Have an interest in utilizing a proposed PACE product; and
  5. Can apply their own resources (personnel, tools, funding, facilities, etc.) to demonstrate the utility of PACE data for their particular system or model.

Early Adopters

Join our growing list of Early Adopters who are engaged with the PACE Project! Benefits of becoming an Early Adopter include: Interacting with other EA members and the PACE Science & Applications Team, participating in PACE Applications Program activities (e.g., workshops, focus sessions, and tutorials), accessing pre-launch simulated and proxy PACE data, and getting updates on the mission, science data products, and field campaigns.

Fish

Clarissa Anderson

Applying PACE products to the California Harmful Algae Risk Mapping (C-HARM) System

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HAB forecasting tool to protect ecosystem health and understand coastal ocean ecological dynamics

Trees in a swamp

Jordan Borak

Mapping wetland vegetation parameters with PACE's Ocean Color Instrument

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Ecological forecasting; Water resources; Urban and wetland flooding; Disasters

Damian Brady

Aquaculture site prospecting: Applying PACE products to sustainable aquaculture site selection

Aquaculture site selection tool for Gulf of Maine

Dustin Carroll

Data-assimilative, global-ocean ECCO-Darwin biogeochemistry model

ECCO-Darwin global-ocean biogeochemistry model

Hunter Erickson

Managing environments in the palm of your hand

Mobile app for data dissemination, decision-support tool

Elizabeth Ferguson

Coastal and offshore Oregon marine mammal ecological study

Ocean mammal tracking (migration and feeding); Climate change assessment

Marjorie Friedrichs

Water clarity and particle size from hyperspectral remote sensing reflectance in the Chesapeake Bay

Water clarity and particle size detection as an indicator of estuary health

Algal bloom (Noctiluca scintillans)

Hiroto Higa

Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) and red/blue tide Detection and modeling for coastal and inland waters in Asia

Large blue tide offshore of Makuhari in Tokyo Bay, Japan

HAB and red tide detection for coastal and inland Japanese, Indonesian, and Thai waters

Heather Holmes

Modeling spatial and temporal exposure to air pollution in the western U.S.

Wildfire/smoke forecasting; Wintertime temperature inversions; Air quality

Chuanmin Hu

Detecting and differentiating oil slicks through PACE measurements

Disaster response and mitigation through detection and mapping of oil slicks and spills in the Gulf of Mexico

Jason Jolliff

Ocean colorimetry with PACE

Turbid waters monitoring and prediction for water resource management and US Navy operations planning

Biothreat

Antar Jutla

Predictive assessment of clinically active biothreats in coastal and ocean waters using PACE data

Population distribution and water-borned disease outbreak map

Predictive risk assessment for coastal HABs / pathogens / biothreats

Harmful algal bloom

Moritz Lehmann

Harmful algal bloom detection and monitoring in the inland and coastal waters of New Zealand

Water quality monitoring and forecasting

Water quality, including HAB detection, monitoring and forecasting

Marina Marrari

Near real time satellite data distribution platform for Central America: Monitoring and fisheries applications (pezCA)

Mobile app for fishing and recreation

Michael Ondrusek

Development and assessment of a hyperspectral Total Suspended Matter (TSM) algorithm for PACE

Quantification of TSM concentration in inland/coastal waters

Mariusz Pagowski

Assessing potential of PACE aerosol products for data assimilation

Prediction of global aerosols to study impact on weather and climate

Anastasia Romanou

Shifts in biodiversity and linkages to ecosystem health and food security

Improving global climate model predictions

Shells

Marié Smith

Hyperspectral satellite radiometry for HAB and phytoplankton functional type identification in support of South African marine industries

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Fisheries and aquaculture decision support tool for the South African coast

Richard Stumpf

Discriminating algal blooms in turbid coastal, estuarine and large lake environments

HAB detection, monitoring, and forecasting

Daniel Tong

Satellite retrievals of marine aerosols and trace gases emissions

Trace gas and aerosol emission modeling/tracking

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Join the Early Adopter Program

Becoming an PACE Early Adopter begins with completing an application using our online webform. After review, selected proposers will contacted by PACE Applications Program coordinators. The PACE Early Adopter Guide provides detailed information, including review and selection criteria.

There are many benefits to becoming a PACE Early Adopter. Interested? Contact us directly at pace-applications@oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov if you have any questions.

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