SPOTLIGHT Archive

Congratulations to the STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) high school internship program at UT/CSR, an integral part of the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Science Activation program, for receiving the 2024 American Geophysical Union Excellence in Earth and Space Education Award. SciAct is a cooperative network of competitively-selected teams from across the Nation working with ...

“Measuring 1-mm-accurate local survey ties over kilometer baselines at McDonald Geodetic Observatory“, was recently published in the Journal of Geodesy by the Center’s Jullian Rivera, Srinivas Bettadpur, Zhigui Kang, and John Ries with John Griffin. Abstract: The goal for the next generation of terrestrial reference frames (TRF) is to achieve a 1-mm- and 0.1-mm/yr-accurate frame realization ...

Congratulations to Shauna Pendleton on receiving the 2024 Staff Excellence Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering. Texas Engineering honored their exceptional staff members with the prestigious Staff Excellence Awards ceremony held in the Mulva Auditorium on May 14, 2024. These awards recognize non-teaching personnel who have made remarkable contributions to the Cockrell School through ...

Group photo of NASA SEES Interns in front of Zero-G aircraft (L to R): Zoe Zlatic, Londyn Franklin, Landry McRoy, and Aaron Kingslien The NASA STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) High School Summer Internship Program had the opportunity to select 4 students to conduct research in microgravity on a Zero-G G-Force One aircraft last year. ...

The Center for Space Research hosted the Quantum Networking Event on February 7, 2024 as part of the kickoff activities of the Quantum Pathways Institute (QPI), a NASA-sponsored Space Technology Research Institute. The event served as an informal opportunity for academia, national labs, and industry to get together and share views on research, education/workforce development, and ...

The Center for Space Research hosted a Technical Showcase on January 23, 2024. The event highlighted the various research projects at the Center, and provided the opportunity for CSR’s research staff, students and invited guests to engage and foster community interaction and conversation. Please visit CSR’s Flickr album for more photos from the event at: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBekTK

For the last few decades, a series of satellites have used lasers to radically improve our understanding of Earth and how it is changing over time. This technology, satellite laser altimetry, has quantified data on critical climate issues such as melting ice, sea level changes, carbon levels in forests around the globe and the amount ...

Figure 3: Changes in sea ice and land ice in the polar regions from ICESat and ICESat-2.Main maps show sea ice thickness for the Arctic and Greenland region (sea ice thickness for January 202064) and the Antarctic region (average for April to November 2019)82 from ICESat-2. The height change rate for the land ice sheet ...

A new paper, “Modeling Uncertainty of GEDI Clear-Sky Terrain Height Retrievals Using a Mixture Density Network”, was recently published in the Special Issue of Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling for Nature-Based Solutions by The University of Texas Center for Space Research Ph.D student, Jonathan Sipps, about innovative solutions for remote sensing analytics using machine learning ...

Margaret Baguio (on the left), and, Celena Miller (on the right) shown with the NASA Group Achievement Award that was awarded for the STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) High School Summer Internship Program. The STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) High School Summer Internship Program, which is a nationally competitive STEM program for high school ...