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Data-driven climate and EO applications for extreme heat on land and the ocean

ESRIN Science Hub Via Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM, Italy

Speaker: Ana Oliveira, Colab&Atlantic, Portugal  As climate change pushes our planet beyond familiar conditions, heatwaves—both on land and in the ocean—become striking indicators of how underlying climate trends translate into extreme temperatures. Former architect and urban planner Ana will explore how these changes present an opportunity to bring climate science and Earth observation closer to […]

ESA and CNR-ISMAR inaugurate the advanced Mediterranean Lab

ESRIN Science Hub Via Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM, Italy

A major step forward in Mediterranean Sea research was taken last week, on April 7th, with the inauguration of the advanced Mediterranean open science Data Analysis Lab (MeDAL) at ESA’s ESRIN Science Hub. The launch of the new initiative was formalised through the signature of a Memorandum of Intent by Simonetta Cheli, Director of ESA Earth Observation […]

The Hub Talks: Mapping the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of marine plastic litter: The need for measuring ocean surface currents

Speaker: Erik van Sebille is a professor of oceanography and public engagement at Utrecht University, where he also received his PhD in 2009. He has worked at the University of Miami, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and Imperial College in London. Erik investigates how ocean currents move 'stuff' around. He is the […]

The Hub Talks: Observing the Earth (water and) energy cycle from space to understand climate change

Speaker: Dr. Meyssignac is a researcher at the Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS) and at the French Space National Center (CNES) in Toulouse, France. His research focuses on understanding the variations of the global Earth energy-water cycle at regional and global scales through high precision geodetic satellite observations and modelling approaches. He investigates processes leading to changes in the Earth energy budget, theEarth energy imbalance and the response […]

The Hub Talks: UK Gas Leak Detected from Space: An Unexpected Discovery Leading to Large ImpactThe Hub Talks:

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Speaker: Dr Emily Dowd is Research Fellow in Greenhouse Gas Modelling at the University of Leeds. She graduated from her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2024 and her thesis focused on analysing methane across difference spatial and temporal scales. Emily's research focuses on using satellite data and chemical transport models to investigate changes in atmospheric methane. She is […]

The Hub Talks: Carbon Mapper – Global distributions of super-emitting methane point sources as detected by satellites

ESRIN Science Hub Via Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM, Italy

Speaker: Daniel Cusworth is the Science Director for Carbon Mapper. Carbon Mapper’s mission is to drive greenhouse gas emission reductions by making methane and carbon dioxide data accessible and actionable. Daniel oversees algorithm development, validation, analysis, and applications of airborne and satellite greenhouse gas datasets. He was formerly a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet […]

The Hub Talks: The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission: Overview and Status

Speaker: Dr Marco Lavalle is the Deputy Project Scientist for the NISAR Mission and the Group Supervisor (JPL equivalent for ESA’s Section Manager) of the SAR Algorithms and Processing Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California). He received an M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) in […]

The Marine Heat Waves from space: from detection to prediction workshop.

ESRIN Science Hub Via Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM, Italy

Marine Heat Waves (MHWs) — periods of abnormally high sea surface temperatures lasting several days — are becoming more frequent and intense under climate change. Enhancing our capacity to monitor and predict them is now crucial — not only for science, but also for society and ocean health. The event gathers 25 experts from 11 countries to […]

The Hub Talks: Cloud radiative imbalance in global 3D radiative transfer simulations

Speaker: Giulia Roccetti is a visiting us in the Science Hub from 14th to 21st ofOctober. Giulia recently finished her PhD at the European Southern Observatoryand has started a research fellowship position at ESA/ESAC. There, she will useEarthCARE data, among other resources, to study how 3D cloud structure affectstheir radiative effect.Abstract: We use 3D cloud […]

The Hub Talks: Quantifying atmospheric trace-gas emissions using broadband satellite observations

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Speaker: Daniel Varon is an Assistant Professor at MIT in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He received his PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University in 2020 and held postdoctoral fellowships at both Harvard and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs from 2020 to […]

The Hub Talks – The Science and Technology behind Spaceborne Doppler velocity measurements

Abstract: The Earth Cloud, Aerosol, and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) 94-GHz Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), is the first spaceborne Doppler radar that provides coincident measurements of reflectivity and Doppler velocity, opening the path to quantifying vertical air motions and hydrometeor sedimentation velocities from space. The coming decade will feature several additional space-borne missions including the NASA-Investigation […]

The Hub Talks: Probing the urban atmosphere from ground: the BAQUNIN project

Speaker: Stefano Casadio ESA The Boundary-layer Air Quality analysis Using Network of INstruments (BAQUNIN) Atmospheric Composition monitoring and Cal/Val supersite (www.baqunin.eu), will be described with particular focus on the urban component. The BAQUNIN activities started on 2015 (ESA IDEAS+ WP), with increasing support from ESA and EUMETSAT in the following 10 years. The project consortium […]

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