Earth ID: 14315

Tracking Carbon from Wildfires to Ocean Blooms

Released on March 22, 2023

Music: "On the Trail," "Idle at Midnight," "Synthetic Comfort," Universal Production Music

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Between September 2019 and March 2020, wildfires killed billions of animals and decimated more than 200 thousand square kilometers of Australian forest, an area larger than Nebraska. Later, thousands of kilometers away in the Southern Ocean, massive algae blooms covered a surface larger than the area of Australia itself. The connection between these major wildfires and the subsequent explosion of phytoplankton production is an example of the events NASA's upcoming Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will help investigate. PACE's suite of instruments will allow scientists to get a clearer picture of carbon as it links land use and fires, atmospheric aerosols and marine communities, and ultimately improves those uncertain the data we put into climate models.

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Credits

Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC):
Lead Producer
Lead Writer
Lead Narrator

Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.):
Technical Support

Jeremy Werdell (NASA/GSFC):
Lead Scientist

Chris Burns (KBR Wyle Services, LLC):
Lead Animator

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC):
Lead Visualizer

Kel Elkins (USRA):
Lead Visualizer

Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.):
Lead Videographer

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mission:
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE)

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Keywords:
SVS >> Phytoplankton Blooms
GCMD >> Location >> Australia
NASA Science >> Earth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Natural Hazards >> Wildfires

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0