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This repository of past STAR science seminar presentations and recordings includes the NOCCG seminars starting in 2019, and the CoastWatch seminar series starting in 2022.

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2025 seminar details

2025 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/16/2025	Guangming Zheng (CISESS/ESSIC University of Maryland & NOAA NESDIS/STAR CoastWatch Applications Team)	Development and testing of a machine learning sensor-agnostic chlorophyll-a product for Chesapeake Bay (CoastWatch), (PDF, 7.06 MB)
2/13/2025	Seubson Soisuvarn (OSWT/UCAR)	Near Real Time Ultra High Resolutions ASCAT Wind Vector and Ice Products in US Coastal Zones (CoastWatch), (PDF, 27.58 MB)
2/26/2025	Carina Poulin, NASA	A year of Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) - in images! (NOCCG), (PDF, 12.58 MB)
3/13/2025	Jonathan Sherman (NOAA NESDIS/STAR CoastWatch Applications Team & Global Science and Technology)	Dynamics in phytoplankton size fractionated primary production in the East Bering Sea (CoastWatch), (PDF, 6.99 MB)
3/13/2025	Seunghyun Son (CISESS/ESSIC University of Maryland & NOAA NESDIS/STAR CoastWatch Applications Team)	Assessing Water Clarity in the Chesapeake Bay using Satellite-derived Secchi Disk Depth (CoastWatch), (PDF, 2.86 MB)
3/26/2025	Ali Chase, UW	Updates & outlooks in measuring phytoplankton accessory pigments from hyperspectral ocean color (NOCCG), (PDF, 8.21 MB)
4/15/2025	Ron Abileah, jOmegaK	What the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, has taught us about satellite radar altimetry of water heights over lakes and rivers (STAR), (PDF, 2726.27 MB)

2024 seminar details

2024 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/11/2024	Dylan Lee, CIROH	Water Prediction Node (CoastWatch), (PDF, 3.77 MB)
1/11/2024	David Vallee, NWS WPC	Water Prediction Node (CoastWatch), (PDF, 7.78 MB)
3/28/2024	Megan Coffer, GST	Sentinel-3 temporal aggregation analyses (CoastWatch), (PDF, 1.81 MB)
4/11/2024	Sarah Hall, GST	Using a Generalized Additive Model to Compute Bias-corrected Near-surface Bulk Salinities from Satellite-derived Skin Salinities in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas (CoastWatch), (PDF, 2.27 MB)
4/24/2024	Jinghui Wu, Columbia University	Mapping of phytoplankton functional types from hyperspectral images in Long Island Sound (NOCCG), (PDF, 95.74 MB)
5/23/2024	Meghan Cronin, OAR	A UN Ocean Decade Program, co-led by NOAA, Linking Air-Sea Interaction In Situ Observations, Satellites and Earth System Models for A Predicted, Safe, Healthy, Clean, and Productive Ocean (CoastWatch), (PDF, 9.34 MB)
6/13/2024	Adam Martiny, UC Irvine	Genomic-to-space measurements reveal global ocean nutrient stress (CoastWatch), (PDF, 12.51 MB)
6/26/2024	Mortimer Werther, EAWAG	Navigating the unknown: enhancing aquatic remote sensing products through uncertainty (NOCCG), (PDF, 1.76 MB)
9/25/2024	Dan Carlson, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon	Distinguishing macrophytes from other sources of reflectance in an optically complex glacially-impacted fjord system in Greenland using Sentinel 2 (NOCCG), (PDF, 18.94 MB)
10/10/2024	Charlotte Rhoads, City College of New York	Remote sensing of extreme weather events on CDOM in Long Island Sound (CoastWatch), (PDF, 18.44 MB)
11/14/2024	Nikolay Nezlin, GST	Regime shifts in satellite-derived chlorophyll within the Laurentian Great Lakes (CoastWatch), (PDF, 3.04 MB)
11/21/2024	Dariusz Stramski, UCSD	AquaFloat: A novel hyperspectral radiometer system for ocean color measurements in the UV-VIS-NIR spectral region (NOCCG), (PDF, 7.28 MB)
12/4/2024	Lin Qi, GST/NOAA	Marine debris induced by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: A multi-sensor remote sensing assessment (NOCCG), (PDF, 15.43 MB)

2023 seminar details

2023 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/12/2023	Emily Smail, GEO Blue Planet/UMD ESSIC	Introducing COSTA: Collaboration for Oil Spill Tracking in the Americas (CoastWatch), (PDF, 745 KB)
1/12/2023	Emily Smail, GEO Blue Planet/UMD ESSIC	Introducing COSTA: Collaboration for Oil Spill Tracking in the Americas (CoastWatch), (PDF, 342 KB)
2/8/2023	Jens Nielsen, University of Washington, CICOES	Estimating phytoplankton size fractions using satellite models in the Chukchi and Bering seas (NOCCG), (PDF, 4.58 MB)
2/9/2023	Presenter 1 - Ryan Vandermeulen, NMFS	Sound and Color - An Immersive Dive into Music Generated from Satellite Data (CoastWatch)
2/9/2023	Presenter 2 - Megan Coffer, GST	Providing a Framework for Seagrass Mapping in Coastal Systems Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery (CoastWatch), (PDF, 2.99 MB)
2/22/2023	Jinghui Wu, Columbia University	Estimates of diurnal and daily Net Primary Productivity using the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) data (NOCCG), (PDF, 36.47 MB)
3/9/2023	Jessie Torres, GST	Observing Lake Wind Patterns with Sentinel-1 SAR Products (CoastWatch), (PDF, 4.1 MB)
3/22/2023	Jianwei Wei, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and GST	Satellite-based optical water classifications in global oceans (NOCCG), (PDF, 6.59 MB)
4/26/2023	Ryan Vandermeulen, NOAA	Overcoming dimensionality barriers in ocean color data (NOCCG), (PDF, 8.87 MB)
5/10/2023	Karlis Mikelsons, NOAA and GST	Statistical Evaluation of Sentinel-3 OLCI Ocean Color Data Retrievals (NOCCG), (PDF, 6.51 MB)
5/11/2023	Presenter 1: Betty Staugler, UFL	Identifying HAB Assessment and Forecasting Needs in the Chesapeake Bay to protect fisheries, aquaculture and human health (CoastWatch), (PDF, 2.15 MB)
5/11/2023	Presenter 2: Jonathan Sherman, GST	Using Remote Sensing to Assess Water Quality Changes in New York City due to COVID-19 (CoastWatch), (PDF, 12.13 MB)
6/8/2023	Megan Coffer, GST	Leveraging satellite observations for freshwater monitoring on Cape Cod (CoastWatch), (PDF, 1.47 MB)
7/13/2023	Gustavo Goni, Joaquin Trinanes, AOML	CoastWatch data and products in support of hurricane research (CoastWatch), (PDF, 108.66 MB)
8/10/2023	Presenter 1: Joy Chakrabartty, GEO Blue Planet	Measuring the Value of Water Quality Improvements for Recreational Use on an Urban River in the USA: A Travel Cost Contingent Behavior Approach (CoastWatch), (PDF, 4.35 MB)

2022 seminar details

2022 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/5/2022	Eric Leuliette, NOAA Jason Program and Project Scientist & Chief, STAR Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry	The Commissioning of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich the next-generation radar altimeter, (PDF, 5.82 MB)
1/5/2022	Eric Leuliette, NOAA Jason Program and Project Scientist & Chief, STAR Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry	Recording for "The Commissioning of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich the next-generation radar altimeter", (MP4, 81.44 MB)
1/13/2022	Peter Hollemans, Terrenus Earth Sciences & RIVA Solutions for NOAA/NESDIS CoastWatch Central Operations	The CoastWatch Vertigo Project, Version 0.7 beta (CoastWatch), (PDF, 11.09 MB)
1/23 - 27/2022	STAR and CIMSS Presenters at AMS	AMS Presentation Summaries, (PPTX, 79.03 MB)
1/23 - 27/2022	STAR and CIMSS Presenters at AMS	AMS Presentation Summaries, (PDF, 19.18 MB)
1/26/2022	Karlis Mikelsons/Global Science and Technology, Inc, NOAA Affiliate	New data, imageries, and tools in support of global ocean color research and monitoring (NOCCG), (PDF, 7.48 MB)
2/10/2022	Prasanjit Dash, STAR/SOCD and CIRA	CEOS COAST, A web-based coastal application prototype in development (CoastWatch), (PDF, 2.28 MB)
2/23/2022	Steven D. Miller/Colorado State University	Light on the Horizon: In Search of Bioluminescent Milky Seas from Space (NOCCG), (PPSX, 233.43 MB)
2/23/2022	Steven D. Miller/Colorado State University	Light on the Horizon: In Search of Bioluminescent Milky Seas from Space (NOCCG), (PDF, 45.82 MB)
3/10/2022	Heather Roman-Stork, STAR / Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry	Progress on Multiparameter Eddy Tracking: Biogeochemical and Biophysical Applications (CoastWatch), (PDF, 140.88 MB)
3/23/2022	Li-Qing Jiang / CISESS (UMD) & NOAA/NCEI	Best practice data standards for discrete bottle based chemical oceanographic observations (NOCCG), (PDF, 4.76 MB)
4/14/2022	Joaquin A. Trinanes, CoastWatch Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico regional node	Recent advances in the satellite monitoring of Sargassum (CoastWatch), (PDF, 37.45 MB)
4/14/2022	Nikelene Mclean, Knauss Fellow, supporting GEO Blue Planet	Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Population Dynamics of the Atlantic Bay Nettle (Chrysaora chesapeakei) in the Patuxent River, MD (CoastWatch), (PDF, 2.37 MB)
4/20/2022	Ivan Csiszar, STAR/SMCD	The NOAA VIIRS Active Fire Product, (PDF, 18.11 MB)
5/4/2022	Erick Geiger, NOAA Coral Reef Watch	Optimizing Single-Sensor Satellite Ocean Color Data for Nearshore Reefs and Tropical Coastal Waters: Two Case Studies (NOCCG), (PDF, 3.01 MB)

2021 seminar details

2021 Presentations

Date	Presenter / Affiliation	Title / Topic
1/6/2021	Kyle Turner, University of Rhode Island	Remote sensing of phytoplankton size classes on the northeast U.S. continental shelf (NOCCG), (PDF, 86.05 MB)
1/10/2021	STAR & Cooperative Institute Presenters	2021 STAR AMS Presentations & Posters, (PDF, 46.73 MB)
1/10/2021	STAR & Cooperative Institute Presenters	2021 STAR AMS Presentations & Posters, (PPTX, 167.47 MB)
1/22/2021	David Trossman (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) and Robert Tyler (NASA GSFC Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory and UMBC JCEST)	Recording for: "Potential for Remote Monitoring of Ocean Heat Content", (MP4, 57.12 MB)
1/22/2021	David Trossman (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) and Robert Tyler (NASA GSFC Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory and UMBC JCEST)	Potential for Remote Monitoring of Ocean Heat Content, (PDF, 61.75 MB)
2/10/2021	Damian Brady and Emmanuel Boss, University of Maine	High resolution remotely-sensed water-quality products in service of the aquaculture industry in Maine (NOCCG), (MP4, 446.47 MB)
3/24/2021	Vijay Natraj and Derek Posselt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	GEO IR Sounder Case Study: Multi-Band Retrieval Simulation and Forecast OSSE Results, (PPTX, 4.55 MB)
3/24/2021	Vijay Natraj and Derek Posselt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	GEO IR Sounder Case Study: Multi-Band Retrieval Simulation and Forecast OSSE Results, (PDF, 3.91 MB)
3/24/2021	Vijay Natraj and Derek Posselt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	Recording for: "GEO IR Sounder Case Study: Multi-Band Retrieval Simulation and Forecast OSSE Results", (MP4, 57.82 MB)
3/25/2021	Cecile Rousseaux, NASA	Modeling global ocean biogeochemistry in support of field and satellite missions (NOCCG), (PDF, 4.85 MB)
4/28/2021	Eurico D'Sa, Louisiana State University; Ishan Joshi, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Bingqing Liu, LSU and The Water Institute of the Gulf	Adaptive ocean color algorithms for the estuarine-ocean continuum and assessment of optical-biogeochemical response to extreme events in nGoM (NOCCG), (PDF, 3.03 MB)
5/5/2021	Joaquin Trinanes, Operations Manager, NOAA/AOML	Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico CoastWatch, Atlantic Ocean CoastWatch - Satellite Tracking of Sargassum in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (NOCCG), (PDF, 7.81 MB)
5/6/2021	Hal Bloom, STC	Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (RROCI) Status, (PDF, 4.24 MB)
6/2/2021	Xiao Liu, IMSG@ NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC	Integrating Ocean Color in NOAA/NCEP's Next-generation Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (NG-GODAS) (NOCCG), (PDF, 4.1 MB)
7/14/2021	Raisha Lovindeer, IOCCG	Spectral characteristics & cyanobacteria abundance in the Indian River Lagoon (NOCCG), (PDF, 6.59 MB)

2020 seminar details

2020 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/13/2020	Ralph Ferraro, CoRP/ASPB	AMS Talk Summaries from STAR & CIs, (PDF, 39.57 MB)
2/12/2020	Emily Smail, GEO Blue Planet Executive Director, University of Maryland CISESS and NOAA SOCD	Using Ocean Color to Report on Sustainable Development Goal 14 (NOCCG), (PDF, 5.32 MB)
2/19/2020	Likun Wang, Riverside Technology	Exploring Instrument Hosting Potentials from Emerging Internet Platforms, (PDF, 10.46 MB)
3/11/2020	Sara Rivero-Calle, University of North Carolina - Wilmington	SeaHawk-1: The First Dedicated Ocean Color CubeSat Mission (NOCCG), (PDF, 135.58 MB)
3/25/2020	Philippe Tissot, Conrad Blucher Institute, Texas A&M	History and Potential of Artificial Intelligence for the Environmental Sciences, (PDF, 4.11 MB)
3/25/2020	Philippe Tissot, Conrad Blucher Institute, Texas A&M	Presentation recording for 'History and Potential ...' , (MP4, 64.89 MB)
4/1/2020	Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC	Introduction to Machine Learning Applications for Numerical Weather Prediction Systems, (PDF, 2.76 MB)
4/1/2020	Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC	Introduction to Machine Learning Applications for Numerical Weather Prediction Systems, (PPTX, 8.47 MB)
4/1/2020	Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC	Presentation recording for 'Introduction to Machine Learning ...', (MP4, 53.81 MB)
4/8/2020	David John Gagne, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Understanding Key Components of the Atmospheric Science Machine Learning Pipeline, (PPTX, 70.31 MB)
4/8/2020	David John Gagne, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Understanding Key Components of the Atmospheric Science Machine Learning Pipeline, (PDF, 4.24 MB)
4/8/2020	Alexandre Castagna Mourao e Lima, Ghent University, Department of Biology	Spectral enhancement of multispectral sensors with contra-bands: theory and retrieval of Landsat 8 orange contra-band (NOCCG), (PPTX, 30.37 MB)
4/15/2020	Tom Beucler - UCI & Columbia	Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-driven, and Interpretable Parametrizations of Convection, (PPTX, 198.57 MB)
4/15/2020	Tom Beucler - UCI & Columbia	Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-driven, and Interpretable Parametrizations of Convection, (PDF, 182.09 MB)
4/15/2020	Tom Beucler - UCI & Columbia	Presentation recording for "Towards Physically-Consistent...", (MP4, 98.88 MB)

2019 seminar details

2019 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/10/2019	Ralph Ferraro	AMS Summary, (PDF, 27.91 MB)
2/14/2019	Scott Rudlosky, STAR	GLM Observations, (PDF, 4.63 MB)
2/14/2019	Konstantine P. Georgakakos, Hydro Research Center	Operational Gauge-adjusted GHE-based Precipitation Estimation and its Application for Flash-flood Occurrence Prediction Worldwide
2/27/2019	Chuanmin Hu/University of South Florida College of Marine Science	On the data quality and quantity of VIIRS/SNPP ocean color data products: from research to applications (NOCCG), (PDF, 6.31 MB)
2/28/2019	Jim Carr, CarrAstro	Observations of Atmospheric Dynamics in 3D with LEO-GEO and GEO-GEO Stereo Imaging, (PDF, 6.45 MB)
3/6/2019	Chris Barnet	Motivation for an experiment: can we utilize the CrIS short-wave channels in data assimilation?, (PDF, 3.85 MB)
3/13/2019	Shekeela Baker-Yeboah/University of Maryland ESSIC	Physical and Biological Implications of Eddy Signatures (NOCCG), (PDF, 4.14 MB)
4/4/2019	Xiaolei Zou, ESSIC, UMD	RO Data Assimilation, (PDF, 9.31 MB)
4/5/2019	Ken Holmlund, EUMETSAT	The EUMETSAT contribution to the global space-based observing system and IJPS, (PDF, 51.24 MB)
4/24/2019	Michael Ondrusek Eric Stengel, and Charles Kovach/ NOAA Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division	Satellite Ocean Color Validation Activities at STAR (NOCCG), (PDF, 7.11 MB)
5/8/2019	Nima Pahlevan/NASA	Various Aspects of NASA Goddard Research of Optical Remote Sensing of Inland & Nearshore Waters (NOCCG)
5/9/2019	Yen-Hung (James) Wu, NASA JPL	uPanFTS, (PDF, 1.08 MB)
5/15/2019	Mark Brusberg, Eric Luebehusen and Harlan Shannon, USDA	Operational Use of Vegetation Health Index by USDA - Luebehusen, (PDF, 8.6 MB)
5/15/2019	Mark Brusberg, Eric Luebehusen and Harlan Shannon, USDA	Operational Use of Vegetation Health Index by USDA - Shannon, (PDF, 5.84 MB)
6/5/2019	Matt Oliver/University of Delaware	Using real-time satellite ocean color and robotics to test ecological hypotheses that lead to conservation plans. (NOCCG), (PDF, 4.37 MB)

2018 seminar details

2018 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/15/2018	Multiple presenters	STAR 2018 AMS Presentation Summaries, (PDF, 19.14 MB)
4/30/2018	Dr.-Ing. Diego Loyola German Aerospace Center - DLR	Machine Learning in Operational Remote Sensing
6/21/2018	Alek Krautmann, NESDIS, Jennifer Vogtmiller, NWS, Christopher Gitro, NWS, Michael Jurewicz, NWS, Tim Schmit, STAR, Deb Molenar, STAR, Bill Line, NWS	STAR / NWS Seminar on Use of Satellite Data in Operational Forecasting
7/18/2018	Huan Meng, NESDIS/STAR, and Kristopher White, NWS/Huntsville, AL Weather Forecast Office and NASA/MSFC/SPORT	NESDIS snowfall rate product and assessment in NWS Forecast Offices, (PDF, 3.88 MB)
8/30/2018	Xiaofeng Li, NESDIS/STAR/SOCD/MECB	Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in Tropical Cyclone Monitoring, (PDF, 9.97 MB)
10/4/2018	Harry Cikanek, NESDIS/STAR	IAC 2018 Global Technical Symposium Earth Observation Session
10/10/2018	David Cotten, Research Scientist, The University of Georgia Small Satellite Research Laboratory, presenting remotely	The SPOC (SPectral Ocean Color Imager) CubeSat Mission
10/18/2018	Fred Wu, STAR	GOES-R Cal/Val, (PPTX, 14.6 MB)
11/8/2018	Tony Reale, STAR	Enterprise EDR Assessment, (PDF, 5.77 MB)
11/29/2018	Thomas Larason, NIST	air-LUSI, (PDF, 987 KB)
11/29/2018	Thomas Larason, NIST	air-LUSI, (PDF, 2.07 MB)
12/17/2018	Eric Wendoloski, Connor Sprague, and Ingrid Guch of The Aerospace Corporation	Interpretable AI, (PDF, 2.29 MB)
12/20/2018	Ben Johnson, JCSDA	CRTM Model, (PDF, 6.92 MB)

2017 seminar details

2017 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
2/9/2017	Multiple presenters	STAR 2017 AMS Presentation Summaries, (PDF, 18.27 MB)
2/9/2017	Claire M. Spillman, Australia Department of Meteorology	Dynamical seasonal forecasting for decision support in marine management, (PDF, 6.73 MB)
5/10/2017	Dr. Elliot Hazen, Research Ecologist, SouthWest Fisheries Science Center Environmental Research Division	Predicting bycatch risk using dynamic ocean management approaches in the California Current
5/15/2017	Dr. Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR	NOAA Aerosols and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE): Ocean-Based Campaigns Supporting NOAA Satellite Remote Sensing
9/21/2017	Greg Fall, NWS Office of Water Prediction	National Snow Analysis: 13 Years of Operations, (PDF, 13.86 MB)
11/20/2017	Dr. Tiago Quintino (M.Sc.Eng. Ph.D), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)	ECMWF's Next Generation Software Stack for the IFS Model and Product Generation: Future Workflow Adaptations

2016 seminar details

2016 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
2/1/2016	Multiple presenters	2016 AMS Talk Summaries from STAR & CIs, (PDF, 12.81 MB)
4/20/2016	David Kitzmiller, National Water Center, National Weather Service, NOAA	Operational National-Scale High-Resolution Hydrologic Modeling: WRF-Hydro and its Meteorological Inputs
6/22/2016	Dr. Xiaofeng Li, GST at NESDIS/STAR/SOCD	Coastline Detection and Coastal Zone Type Classification From Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, (PDF, 6.79 MB)
6/22/2016	Donglian Sun & Sanmei Li, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, VA; Mitch Goldberg & William Sjoberg, JPSS Program Office	Automatic Near-Real-Time Flood Detection using Suomi-NPP/VIIRS Data, (PDF, 5.9 MB)
7/28/2016	Tony Reale, SMCD/OPDB at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR	GRUAN Video
9/19/2016	Brian Cosgrove, NWS - Office of Water Prediction, Analysis and Prediction Division	Continental-Scale Operational Hydrologic Modeling: Version 1.0 of the National Water Model, (PDF, 10.86 MB)

2015 seminar details

2015 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/4/2015	Ralph Ferraro, STAR / CoRP / SCSB	NOAA/NESDIS/STAR 2015 AMS Convention Summary Presentation, (PDF, 16.26 MB)
3/12/2015	Mike Pavolonis, NOAA / NESDIS / CoRP / ASPB	From "Big Data" to Actionable Information: Mitigation of Volcanic and Severe Weather Hazards, (PPTX, 51.44 MB)
3/12/2015	Mike Pavolonis, NOAA / NESDIS / CoRP / ASPB	From "Big Data" to Actionable Information: Mitigation of Volcanic and Severe Weather Hazards (video), (MP4, 4.51 MB)
3/12/2015	Huan Meng, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research	ATMS Derived Snowfall Rates to Support Weather Forecasting
6/8/2015	Likun Wang, ESSIC UMD @ NOAA NESDIS STAR	How does Inter-calibration support for CrIS post-launch calibration?, (PDF, 8.76 MB)
7/16/2015	Dr. Rochelle Wigley and Dr. Shachak Pe'eri, University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping	Overview of NOAA's Nautical Chart Adequacy Workshop
10/16/2015	Dr. Paolo Cipollini, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom	Advances in Satellite Altimetry for Coastal OceanographyAdvances in Satellite Altimetry for Coastal Oceanography
12/7/2015	Dr. Thomas Smith, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR / CoRP	Super-Ensemble Statistical Short-Range Precipitation Forecasting Over the US and Improvements from Ocean-Area Precipitation Predictors, (PDF, 1.23 MB)

2014 seminar details

2014 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/28/2014	Tim Schmit, NOAA / NESDIS / ASPB	Using GOES-14 to Showcase GOES-R ABI Scan Scenarios (embedded animations), (PPTX, 198.75 MB)
1/28/2014	Tim Schmit, NOAA / NESDIS / ASPB	Using GOES-14 to Showcase GOES-R ABI Scan Scenarios (w/o animations), (PDF, 7.23 MB)
2/12/2014	Cara Wilson, NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division	Southern Right Whale mortality at Peninsula Valdés, Argentina - What can satellite data tell us?
3/5/2014	Fuzhong Weng, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research	Building High Quality Climate Data Records from Operational Satellites, (PDF, 10.69 MB)
6/9/2014	Dr. Isabel Trigo, EUMETSAT Land SAF Program Manager	The EUMETSAT Satellite Applications Facility on Land Surface Analysis: Continuous Development and Operations of Remote Sensing Products, (PDF, 7.69 MB)
6/27/2014	H.K. 'Rama' Ramapriyan Assistant Project Manager, Earth Science Data and Information System Project NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Washington Chapter of IEEE/Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Technical Seminar: NASA's Earth Science Data Systems
7/28/2014	Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Florida State University	Overview of NOAA's Nautical Chart Adequacy Workshop
8/26/2014	Robert Mason, University of Queensland (School of Biological Sciences) and the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology	Informing coral bleaching prediction algorithm development through the use of physiological experiments
12/2/2014	Professor Chris Merchant, University of Reading, UK	Not Yet Another Sea Surface Temperature Dataset

2013 seminar details

2013 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
4/10/2013	Dr. William Skirving, SOCD / MECB / CRW	The Use of Coral Physiology to Combine Satellite SST and Insolation to Track Daily Coral Health, (PDF, 2.53 MB)
4/30/2013	Colleen Wilson, Student, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, University of Maryland, College Park, and Ken Pryor, Meteorologist, STAR/SMCD/OPDB	A Downburst Study of the 29-30 June 2012 North American Derecho, (PDF, 4.31 MB)
11/5/2013	Dr. Adrian Turner, Staff Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory	MPAS-CICE: Progress in creating an unstructured sea-ice model
11/25/2013	Sid Boukabara, Deputy Director, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation & NOAA/NESDIS/STAR	Physical Inversion and Data Assimilation Pre-Processing Using the MiRS Variational System. Application to the Microwave Sensors Constellation
12/11/2013	Dr. Paul Elmore, Naval Research Laboratory	Naval Research Laboratory Bathymetry R&D: 2007 - Now

2012 seminar details

2012 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/19/2012	Ralph Ferraro, moderator, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR / CoRP / ASPB	Dress Rehearsal: STAR AMS Presenters Preview their Planned Talks, (PDF, 9.66 MB)
3/7/2012	Dr. Shyam N. Bajpai, NOAA / NESDIS / Office of Systems Development	Status of the Development of Geo-microwave Sounder/GeoSTAR and PATH, (PDF, 1.63 MB)
4/19/2012	Dr. Keith D. Hutchison, Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin	Applications of Manually-Generated Cloud Masks for Cloud Model Verification
6/13/2012	Stephen Po-Chedley, PhD student at the University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences	Artificially reduced trends in the UAH mid-tropospheric dataset: Identifying a bias in the NOAA-9 satellite, (PDF, 5.02 MB)

2011 seminar details

2011 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/20/2011	Ralph Ferraro, moderator, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR / CoRP / ASPB	Dress Rehearsal: STAR AMS 2011 Presenters Preview their Planned Talks, (PDF, 1.96 MB)
2/25/2011	Dr. Andrea Baraldi, Research Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Maryland	Satellite Image Automatic Mapper™, (PDF, 15.14 MB)
5/13/2011	Dr. Frank-M. Goettsche Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany	The Land Surface Analysis -- Satellite Application Facility and permanent in-situ validation in Africa and Europe, (PPSX, 27.9 MB)
7/21/2011	Prof. Maurizio Migliaccio, University of Napoli	Sea Oil Field Satellite Monitoring: An Operational View, (PDF, 7.95 MB)
8/10/2011	Dr. Alexander Kurapov, Oregon State University	Assimilation of satellite and in-situ data in a coastal ocean forecast model off Oregon, (PDF, 8.69 MB)
10/13/2011	Dr. Qilong Min, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) CESTM State University of New York	Using Satellite Multiple Sensor Products to Monitor Vegetation Properties: Vegetation-atmosphere Interaction, (PDF, 3.34 MB)
11/3/2011	Peter Gaube, College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences/Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies, Oregon State University	The Influence of Nonlinear Mesoscale Eddies on Oceanic Chlorophyll, (PDF, 83.59 MB)
12/2/2011	Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland - ESSIC / CICS	Geolocation Correction for Microwave Instruments (AMSU-A, AMSU-B and MHS) Onboard NOAA POES Satellites, (PDF, 4.73 MB)
12/15/2011	Dr. Yeli Yuan, The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration of China	On Wave-Induced Ocean Mixing, (PDF, 5.35 MB)

2010 seminar details

2010 Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/8/2010	Bruce H. Ramsay, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR / CoRP / SCSB	Dress Rehearsal: STAR AMS Presenters Preview their Planned Talks, (PDF, 2.42 MB)
1/8/2010	Andrew Heidinger	Expected Operational (Cirrus) Cloud Observation Improvements with VIIRS on NPP/NPOESS, (PDF, 1.35 MB)
1/8/2010	Anthony Reale (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Bomin Sun (IMSG), Michael Pettey and Frank Tilley (IMSG)	NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS) and Summary Archive System (NARCSS) for real-time and long-term monitoring of environmental satellite products, (PDF, 175 KB)
1/8/2010	Bomin Sun (IMSG), Anthony Reale and Cheng-Zhi Zou (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), Dian Seidel (NOAA/ARL), Michael Pettey and Frank Tilley (IMSG)	Impacts of Mismatch between Radiosonde Launch and Satellite Overpass on Satellite Sounding Evaluation, (PDF, 99 KB)
1/8/2010	D. Lindsey (STAR/RAMMB) and M. Fromm (NRL)	The Effect of Smoke on Pyrocumulonimbus: A Satellite Perspective, (PDF, 108 KB)
1/8/2010	D. Lindsey (STAR/RAMMB), C. Siewert, L. Grasso, W. MacKenzie	Development of a statistical hail prediction product for the GOES-R Proving Ground (and other GOES-R Products), (PDF, 438 KB)
1/8/2010	Feng Xu, Alexander Ignatov	Evaluation and Quality Control of in situ SSTs for Use in the Cal/Val of Satellite Retrievals at NESDIS, (PDF, 240 KB)
1/8/2010	Ingrid Guch & Mark DeMaria (D. Lindsey presenting in their stead)	GOES-R Risk Reduction, (PDF, 46 KB)
1/8/2010	L.E. Flynn, D. F. Rault, S. Janz, I. Petropavlovskikh, C. S. Long, S. K. Yang, and S. Farrow	NPOESS Preparatory Project Validation Program for the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), (PDF, 1.5 MB)
1/8/2010	N. Shabanov, A. Ignatov, B. Petrenko, Y. Kihai and A. Heidinger	Towards Integrated Cloud Mask and Quality Control for ABI SST Product: Prototyping with MSG SEVIRI, (PDF, 506 KB)
1/8/2010	Ron Vogel, Quanhua Liu, Ben Ruston, Yong Han, Fuzhong Weng (STAR & NRL team)	A New Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Database for the Community Radiative Transfer Model, (PDF, 64 KB)
1/8/2010	Timothy J. Schmit, Kaba Bah, Jordan Gerth, Marcia Cronce, Jason Otkin, Justin Sieglaff, Gary Wade	Poster - A Weather Event Simulator (WES) for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), Ron Vogel, Quanhua Liu, Ben Ruston, Yong Han, Fuzhong Weng (STAR & NRL team), (PDF, 349 KB)
1/8/2010	Y. Yu, M. Goldberg, I. Csiszar	GOES-R Satellite Mission: Land Product Development, Validation and Applications, (PDF, 1.47 MB)
1/29/2010	Bruce H. Ramsay, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR / CoRP / SCSB	Small Business Innovation Research Program, (PDF, 254 KB)
1/29/2010	Dr. Qinyu Liu, Professor of Physical Oceanography Laboratory, and Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Laboratory, Ocean University of China	Linking Asian Monsoon to Indian Ocean SST in Observations: Possible Roles of Indian Ocean Basin Mode and Dipole Mode, (PDF, 3.59 MB)

2009 seminar details

2009 Presentations

Date	Speaker	Topic
1/9/2009	STAR Scientists presenting at the annual AMS Meeting	Review of AMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, (PDF, 4.34 MB)
2/4/2009	Dr. Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center	Ocean Surface Roughness Measurement from CALIPSO and its Application in Wind and Air-Sea Gas Exchange, (PDF, 978 KB)
3/13/2009	Mark Yarbrough, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories	MOBY The Marine Optical Buoy, (PDF, 3 MB)
3/18/2009	William K. Skirving, NOAA-NESDIS-STAR-SOCD Coral Reef Watch	Predicting Coral Bleaching from Satellite Retrievals Of Sea Surface Light and Temperature, (PDF, 283 KB)
3/18/2009	Dr. Molly Baringer, NOAA / OAR / Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)	Monitoring the Meridional Overturning Circulation, (PDF, 5.92 MB)
4/15/2009	Dr. Sue Ellen Haupt, Pennsylvania State University	PSU Applied Research Laboratory Assimilation Projects, (PDF, 7.71 MB)
5/29/2009	Dr. Menghua Wang, Oceanographer, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR	Satellite Ocean Color Remote Sensing for Ocean Coastal and Inland Waters, (PDF, 2.97 MB)
6/26/2009	Dr. Lynn K (Nick) Shay, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science - University of Miami	Upper Ocean Heat Content Variability: Implications for Hurricane Intensity Change, (PDF, 3.8 MB)
7/2/2009	Dr. Omar Torres, Associate Professor, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University	Measurements of Aerosol Parameters from Space-based Measurements, (PDF, 1.61 MB)
7/9/2009	Mark Eakin, STAR, Gang Liu, STAR, Robin Webb, NOAA ESRL and Western Water Assessment (WWA)	Global Forecasting of Coral Bleaching Events, (PDF, 5.91 MB)
7/24/2009	Irina Gladkova, Associate Professor of Computer Science, City College of New York / CUNY, and Dr. Michael Grossberg, City College of New York, NOAA / CREST	Applications of Statistical Data Analysis at CCNY and the Graphyte Tookit, (PDF, 3.57 MB)
8/4/2009	Kevin Gallo, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR at USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)	Land-related data and products from USGS and the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), (PDF, 15 MB)
9/11/2009	Dr. Sinéad Louise Farrell (University of Maryland), Dr. Laurence Connor and Dr. David McAdoo - NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry	Detecting Change in Arctic Sea Ice Using Satellite Altimetry, (PDF, 5.8 MB)
10/14/2009	Dan Pisut, Manager, NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab and Lori Brown, Webmaster, STAR	Communicating the Value of STAR Science - Strategies and Techniques for Developing and Disseminating Science News Across Different Media Platforms and Organizations, (PDF, 4.08 MB)
11/3/2009	Dr. Miguel O. Román, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Use of In-Situ and Airborne Data to Assess Satellite Estimates of Directional Surface Reflectance and Albedo, (PDF, 9.93 MB)