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  • Webinar: Human Impacts on the Atmosphere as Revealed by COVID-19
    Earth

    Webinar: Human Impacts on the Atmosphere as Revealed by COVID-19

    Changes in energy use, transportation, and manufacturing during the coronavirus pandemic can be connected to changes in air quality and emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Panelists will discuss how this has created an experiment that can help us understand how human activity changes the environment and guide policies for a transition to a sustainable planet.

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  • Optical Remote Sensing of Earth and Planetary Surfaces

    Optical Remote Sensing of Earth and Planetary Surfaces

    The development of space observation techniques and of user friendly software to process and handle those observations has opened a new era in geology and planetary sciences. The first global imaging systems made it possible to scan wide areas and search for promising sites for field investigations, or to get the contextual information needed to interpret local observations. As the resolution, whether spatial or spectral, and geometric accuracy improved, it became possible to make actual measurements and eventually monitor Earth surface changes. These possibilities offered new ways to investigate the geological processes at play in the landscape evolution on Earth and other planets. New opportunities are emerging, such as staring systems in particular, which will allow investigating processes and surface characteristics that cannot be observed with present systems. Rapid surface motions, such as from seismic waves, are one example.

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  • Airships: A New Horizon for Science

    Airships: A New Horizon for Science

    Over the last decade, a few commercial telecommunication ventures as well as several well-funded military programs have attempted to develop autonomous, solar powered, high-altitude light-than-air (LTA) vehicles known as airships, which could maneuver and station-keep for weeks, months, or even years.

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  • Fossil Fuel Treaty Monitoring: Mission Impossible?
    Earth

    Fossil Fuel Treaty Monitoring: Mission Impossible?

    The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (2009) tackled the challenge of designing and implementing a global agreement for control of greenhouse gas emissions. The meeting floundered, in part, due to a seemingly mundane technical challenge: If treaties to controls on carbon emissions are adopted, how would compliance be monitored?

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  • The MSU Debate, Climate Auditing, and the Freedom of Information Act
    Earth

    The MSU Debate, Climate Auditing, and the Freedom of Information Act

    Since the late 1960s, scientists have performed experiments in which computer models of the climate system are run with human-caused increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). These experiments consistently showed that increases in atmospheric concentrations of GHGs should lead to pronounced warming, both at the Earth's surface and in the troposphere. The models also predicted that in the tropics, the warming of the troposphere should be larger than the warming of the surface.

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KISS convenes world leading experts from Caltech, JPL, and the wider space community to conduct in-depth technical studies in focussed areas of space science and technology.

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Symposia

Focused gatherings that showcase and explore emerging topics in space science and technology.

Symposia

Short Courses

Introductory lecture series on topics related to KISS studies, open to the wider community.

Short Courses

Special Events

KISS hosts a variety of events, together with our partners, for our community to connect, learn, and engage.

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