The Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) works to connect NASA satellite data and products with public and private sector organizations for air quality, environmental health, and emissions applications. Our team of 14 PIs and 70+ total collaborating investigators has grown to support and serve hundreds of organizations across the U.S. and around the world. Our public meetings are opportunities to grow these two-way dialogues in which stakeholders share their research needs and priorities, and scientists share their resources, insights, and new discoveries.
This meeting was held May 13-14, 2026 at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin and virtually. For the first time, HAQAST collaborated with the Outrider Foundation Science Media Forum to connect leading journalists with NASA capabilities.
Posters
Ahmed Salman (GESTAR-II ERT / NASA GSFC)
High-Resolution Aerosol Monitoring over Africa Using Deep Learning-Based MTG FCI AOD Estimation
Alexander Radkevich (ASDC, NASA LaRC; ADNET Inc.)
Comparison of gas columns retrieved by TEMPO and Pandora – ASDC tools, results, and new development
Cara Scalpone (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Understanding Wintertime Air Pollution: the Roles of Building Heating Emissions and Temperature
Chandler Wells (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Evaluating County-Level PM₂.₅ Monitor Placement in the U.S.
Daniel Bellamy (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Mineral dust emission and dispersion over population centers in southcentral Alaska
Daniel Friedland (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Satellite Thermal Imaging for Solar Infrastructure Assessment
Gabriel Mojica (NASA Langley Research Center ASDC)
Satellite Data Comparison with Field Campaigns through Worldview, SOOT and ArcGIS
Haihui Zhu (Colorado State University)
Anthropogenic Dust Emissions Are Greatly Underestimated in the Contiguous U.S.
Hephatha Lutheran Church Youth Apprentices (Hephatha Lutheran Church)
Love My Air Wisconsin and Faith-Based Youth Apprentices Pilot: Air Quality and Asthma Action
Jennifer McGinnis (Colorado State University)
Estimating PMcoarse over the US using Machine Learning
Jessie (Huanxin) Zhang (University of Iowa)
Jin Yu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Developing a United States Air Quality Assessments System Based on GEOS-Chem High Performance (GCHP) to Support NASA Earth Science to Action (ES2A) for Air Quality
Johnny Uelmen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Mapping Oropouche Virus Risk Through Land Cover Change and Vector Ecology
Joseph Kozminski (Lewis University)
Remote Sensing Measurements of NO2 and Formaldehyde with the NASA TEMPO Satellite in Industrial and Energy Generating Areas in Illinois
Joseph Palmo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A Space-Based Framework for Characterizing Ozone Formation Chemistry in Wildfire Smoke Plumes
Kane Samuel (District of Columbia, Department of Energy & Environment)
Lulu Chen (George Washington University)
Living Next to Warehouses: Daily NO2 Pollution Patterns around Warehouses Revealed by Satellite
Mashiat Hossain (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Wildfire Smoke Redefines PM2.5 Compliance: Local and Transboundary Sources Driving PM2.5 Exceedances under the Revised Annual NAAQS
Maurice Roots (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet)
Pat Reddy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Using Satellite Data and Interpretable Machine Learning for Ozone Source Apportionment and Process Attribution
Sarah Marmolejos (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sujan Neupane (UMBC GESTAR II, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Summer Acker (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Satellite-Derived vs. Ground Truth: How Environmental Conditions Modify Their Agreement Across the Western United States
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