PACE Data Hackweek 2025

Dr. Windle is an early career scientist, working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in support of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission.

Dr. Carroll is an associate research scientist specializing in phytoplankton community ecology and data science.

Jeremy Werdell is an Oceanographer in the Ocean Ecology Laboratory (OEL) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the Project Scientist for the PACE mission.

Dr. Carina Poulin is a Scientific Designer for NASA's Ocean Ecology Laboratory. She has a background in research about plankton optical properties.

Dr. Pengwang Zhai got his PhD in physics in 2006 at Texas A&M University. He joined UMBC as a faculty member in 2014 after working as a couple of Post Docs and a research scientist at Science System Applications, Inc. at NASA Langley Research Center. His research is in the fundamental theories of radiative transfer, light scattering, and remote sensing.

Eli has been an organizer for many ocean hackweeks and develops Jupyter notebooks for working with ocean remote-sensing data. She is involved in developing and supporting use of hyperspectral data for fisheries and ocean ecosystem management and research. She is excited about the potential for open science and open collaboration to accelerate the incorporation of new ocean data products into fisheries research and management.

Dr. Guoqing Wang is a Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) scientist in the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

I tend to spread out in my interests in the very wide umbrella of ocean color, where I've spent several months at sea, characterized phytoplankton photophysiology, and developed bio-optical models. Currently, I'm very excited about uncertainty and all the information it contains!

Sean Foley works on the application of machine learning and computer vision to challenging problems in remote sensing. More specifically, he is interested in how computer vision can better our understanding of 3D cloud structure.

Morgaine has a background in coastal and estuarine biological oceanography with an emphasis on satellite oceanography, harmful algal bloom ecology, and water quality. Currently she works in the Ocean Ecology Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) as the PACE Mission Applications Lead.

Skye Caplan works on the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission as a terrestrial scientist. She is responsible for applying PACE satellite data to land surface observation questions.

Dr. E. Riley Blocker is a senior research scientist at SSAI working on-site as a post-doctoral scholar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Ocean Ecology Laboratory (OEL).

Dr. van Diedenhoven's research is focused on clouds and aerosols, their interactions and their influence on climate.

With two graduate degrees in oceanography, Heather's research has focused on nutrient cycling and paleoceanography, both highly interdisciplinary areas involving the complex interplay between marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry.

Development of an efficient and accurate atmospheric correction algorithm for hyperspectral radiometer based on co-located multiangle polarimeter measurements

Mai ("May") studied coral reef ecology for her graduate work then pursued her interest in communication strategy and science writing at the NOAA Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and two marine conservation nonprofits before joining the OCB project office in 2016.

Dr. Meng Gao is a research scientist in the Ocean Ecology Laboratory (OEL) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). He currently supports NASA's PACE mission in advancing aerosol and ocean color remote sensing using PACE multi-angle polarimeters.

Dr. Patel is an atmospheric scientist with vast experience in satellite remote sensing and data analysis to improve the process-level understandings associated with aerosol-cloud-climate interactions.