Webinar: Accessing Data for the World's Water with SWOT

PO.DAAC is hosting a SWOT webinar next week! I’m pleased to invite you to the NASA Earthdata webinar, Accessing Data for the World's Water with SWOT held on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 2 pm EDT (UTC-4).

To register: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/webinars-and-tutorials/webinar-podaac-2024-03-20

Description: Launched in December 2022, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides an unprecedented look at Earth's water. A joint undertaking by NASA and CNES (Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales) with contributions from CSA (the Canadian Space Agency) and the United Kingdom Space Agency, SWOT measurements for surface water extent and water body elevation for rivers, lakes, and the ocean are now publicly available for scientific research and applications. This webinar will introduce SWOT and show data users how to discover, access, and utilize SWOT data products via cloud computing and local download as well as through data transformation tools like the High-level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction (HiTIDE). The webinar will showcase data recipes and tutorials from NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) Cookbook to help you get started. Join us to learn how SWOT data could augment your existing data workflows or lead to new, innovative science and applications in the world of water.

Webinar POC: Jennifer Brennan, Host, NASA ESDIS Communications Lead, Goddard Space Flight Center

Speakers: 

Dr. Cassandra Nickles, Applied Science Systems Engineer, NASA PO.DAAC, JPL

Cassandra (“Cassie”) Nickles is an Applied Science Systems Engineer at NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). Her work involves connecting NASA data to science and applications communities by creating data recipes and tutorials (e.g. Jupyter Notebooks, etc) and curating data learning resources. Cassie received her PhD in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in May 2021 having performed research surrounding large-scale river networks and applications enabled by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. Her overarching passion is to serve society through remote sensing and hydrologic applications, facilitating access to data for a diverse set of research and applied data users. 

Celia Ou, Data Publication and Applied Science Systems Engineer, NASA PO.DAAC, JPL

Celia Ou is a Data Publication Engineer and Applied Science Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She holds an MS in Physical Oceanography from University of California, San Diego. At PO.DAAC, Celia works on dataset publication from various projects including Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT), as well as creating tutorials for the NASA data user community. Her goals include connecting science data users to helpful resources, reducing data wrangling, and improving the data user experience in support of more accessible and open science.

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/webinars-and-tutorials/webinar-podaac-2024-03-20