Objective
The Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST), directed by Professor Tracey Holloway, partnered with public health and air quality agencies to use NASA data and tools for the public benefit.
Goals
Member Projects Each of the 13 primary investigators led their own research teams in using NASA satellite data to help solve real-world public health and air quality problems. Learn more about the individual PI projects on their profiles.
Tiger Teams In these short-term collaborative efforts, multiple PIs and contributors worked closely with public stakeholders to identify and address immediate problems using NASA satellite data and tools. Topics ranged from the air quality and health burden of the 2017 California wildfires to improving estimates of NOx in the National Emissions Inventory.
Events & Communications A strong science communications approach encompassed newsletters, social media, and a website with instructional guides for NASA data and tools. To further connect researchers and stakeholders, HAQAST held biannual meetings in person and online, which drew hundreds of attendees.
Successes
Growing the Air Quality and Public Health User Community
Improving Satellite-Derived Surface PM2.5 for Health Applications
Characterizing Global Background Ozone Affecting the U.S.
Advancing Global Health Challenges with NASA Data
Evaluating Community Scale Health Impacts
Quantifying Uncertain Emissions Sources
Improving Tools for Real-Time and Retrospective Fire Analysis
The HAQAST enterprise has helped to move NASA satellite data towards the center of the national and international efforts to monitor and maintain air quality and public health. Read more about the outcomes of HAQAST at HAQAST.org/showcase
Attendance at HAQAST meetings, including in-person and online. All in-person meetings included a remote access option, although the platform affected the manner in which attendees were counted. HAQAST2020 and the HAQAST Showcase were conducted entirely online.
Funding Partner:
NASA Applied Sciences
Timeline:
2016 – 2020
Tools:
Wide range of satellite data products, models, and related methods
Leading Holloway Group Participants:
Tracey Holloway, Daegan Miller, Monica Harkey, Rhianna Miles, Sarah Grange, Page Bazan