Our Project Portfolio
Earth Action supports a variety of projects that utilize Earth observations to help address challenges facing communities around the globe. Our portfolio demonstrates the benefits of using NASA Earth observations to inform decision and policy-making to improve life on Earth for all.
Team: Shea Rousseau (Project Lead), Gabriela Colombo, Carlo M. Gomez, Tyler C. Padua
Summary: The city of Stockton, California, located within the San Joaquin… Read More
Team Members: Dev Niyogi (University of Texas at Austin), Carmen Llanes Pulido (Go Austin, Vamos Austin), Marc Coudert (City of Austin), Sergio Castellanos (University of Texas at Austin), Matt Bartos (University of Texas at Austin),… Read More
In partnership with Communities for a Better Environment, a community-based organization leading the advancement of zero-emission technologies and green infrastructure in environmental justice communities, our 2-year Data Integration Project examines urban heat island- and air… Read More
Team Members: Dr. Michelle Stuhlmacher (DePaul University), Dr. Winifred Curran (DePaul University), Dr. Marynia Kolak (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Dajoin Williams (DePaul University), Christopher Impellizeri (DePaul University), Aisha Syed (… Read More
Project Team: PI Ashish Sharma (Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System); Co-I Matthew Turk (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign); Co-I Edith Makra (Metropolitan Mayors Caucus); Postdoc Carolina Veiga (Discovery Partners Institute,… Read More
Team Members: Jaime Madrigano PhD, Co-investigator (Johns Hopkins University), Darryn Waugh PhD, Co-investigator (Johns Hopkins University), Benjamin Zaitchik PhD, Co-investigator (Johns Hopkins University), Bianca Corpuz, Graduate Research Assistant (Johns… Read More
Team: Jonathan Szeto (Project Lead), Jasper Beardslee, Piper Christian, Bethany MacCarter, Alma Quintero
Summary: Little Manila Rising (LMR) is a nonprofit in… Read More
The premise of the proposed project is that health hazard mitigation planning and public health disaster response can be improved by including environmental exposure characterization, through the application of Earth Observations (EO) and synthetic… Read More
Team: Daniel Carrión (Yale School of Public Health), Anna Stouffer (Yale School of Public Health), Weixi Wu (Yale School of Public… Read More
Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) propose to improve malaria control decision making in sub-Saharan… Read More
Team: Kevin Mueller (Cleveland State University), Brice Grunert (Cleveland State University), Thomas Hilde (Cleveland State University), Kaiguang Zhao (Ohio State University), Daniel Meaney (Cuyahoga County Planning Commission), Amanda Wood (Holden Arboretum)… Read More
Team Members: Pawan Gupta (Universities Space Research Association, Columbia & NASA Marshall Space Flight Center); Alqamah Sayeed (Universities Space Research Association, Columbia & NASA Marshall Space Flight Center); Katarzyna Sepielak (University of… Read More
Team: Ben Dahan (Project Lead), Melodi Hess, Rene Castillo, Vanessa Machuca
Summary: Offshore oil and gas production in the United States is a significant source of… Read More
Team: Piper Christian (Project Lead), Fiona Summers, Yoana Vargas Magana, Andrea Delgado
Summary: Water flow into the Great Salt Lake (GSL) has declined rapidly over… Read More
Team: Abby Sgan (Project Lead), Greta Bolinger, Tallis Monteiro, Cristina Villalobos-Heredia, Taylor West
Summary: Recent studies have documented a correlation… Read More
Team Members: Tracey Holloway (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Jessica Price (City of Madison), Brian Urbaszewski (Respiratory Health Association), Diana Van Vleet (American Lung Association), Langston Verdin
Executive Summary: From… Read More
Team: Susana B. Adamo (Columbia University); Carolynne Hultquist (Columbia University); Cascade Tuholske (Montana State University); Greg Yetman (Columbia University); John Squires (Columbia University)
Summary: We examine the… Read More
Team Members: Chisato Calvert (Openaq INC.); Jeanne Holm (City of Los Angeles); Mohammad Pourhomayoun (California State University, Los Angeles)
Executive Summary: Every 5 seconds, someone dies from the effects of air pollution; in fact,… Read More