Dr. Carl Malings

Carl Malings is a research scientist at Morgan State University, working in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Carl is an expert on data fusion techniques and is part of the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), combining Earth system models with satellite data to address health and air quality needs worldwide. He serves as co-lead of the GEO Health Community of Practice Air Quality, Wildfires, and Respiratory Health Work Group, and is a trainer for the NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program.

HAQAST Project: Scaling Data Fusion Tools to Support Local Air Quality Managers in Latin America

Carl’s team will demonstrate global applicability of NASA satellite data and tools towards stakeholder needs such as optimizing air monitor placement, air quality forecasting, and developing datasets compatible with epidemiological studies. The team will leverage current and future NASA instruments, models and data products including Goddard Earth Observing System Composition Forecast (GEOS-CF), VIIRS, MAIA, AERONET, Pandora ground-based spectrometers, as well as non-NASA data from TROPOMI and local air quality monitoring systems. 

Project goals / deliverables:

• Optimize air quality monitoring network expansion in Rio, Brazil
• Prepare for and supplement the NASA MAIA mission in Maule, Chile
• Enable a new air quality forecasting capability in Bolivia

Co-investigators and partners: Nathan Pavlovic (Sonoma Technology, Inc.), Daniel King (Sonoma Technology, Inc.), Bryan Duncan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Emma Knowland (Morgan State University), Megan Damon (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.), Sina Hasheminassab (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Daniel Westervelt (Columbia Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Sebastián Diez (Univerisidad del Desarrollo), Colleen Rosales (OpenAQ), Russ Biggs (OpenAQ), Felipe Mandarino (Rio de Janeiro City Government), Vicente Lorca (Maule Regional Government), Felipe Bueno (US State Department Bolivia)

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