COVID-19: Identifying Unique Opportunities for Earth System Science

April 14 - December, 2020
KISS Virtual Workshop, California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA 91125

Workshop Overview:

The goal of this workshop is to quickly assemble an interdisciplinary team of scientists, researchers and engineers to begin addressing the following questions:

  • How will the response to the COVID-19 impact on the climate system be measured?
  • How will the system recover over the next 1-5 years?
  • What hypotheses can be tested?
  • What measurements can be obtained, leveraged, coordinated to test these hypotheses?
  • What are the unique measurements we need to obtain NOW that cannot be obtained once the Earth system begins to revert to its previous condition? 
  • What are the best methods to extract weather and other variables impacting the system?
  • Can COVID impulse and response conditions to/by the Earth System provide discriminating tests for Earth System Models?
  • What earth science data sets help researchers to establish connections between COVID-19 outcomes and air quality, and to quantify the impact of pandemic mitigation strategies on human health?

Team Leads

The study program schedule is available in .pdf here

  • Kelley Barsanti — UC Riverside
  • Kevin Bowman — JPL
  • Dan Crichton — JPL
  • Bart Croes — California Energy Commission
  • John Crounse — Caltech
  • Dan Cusworth — JPL
  • Annmarie Eldering — JPL
  • Christian Frankenberg — Caltech
  • Meredith Franklin — USC
  • Randy Friedl — JPL
  • Chelle Gentemann — Farallon Institute
  • Kevin Gurney — NAU
  • Sina Hasheminassab — South Coast AQMD
  • Kathy Hibbard — NASA
  • Glynn Hulley — JPL
  • Dylan Jones — U of Toronto
  • Ken Jucks — NASA
  • Eric Kort — Univ. of Michigan
  • Joshua Laughner — Caltech
  • Barry Lefer — NASA
  • Randall Martin — Washington University
  • Galen McKinley — Columbia
  • Chip Miller — JPL
  • Kazuyuki Miyazaki — JPL
  • Jessica Neu — JPL
  • Lesley Ott — NASA GSFC/GMAO
  • Tom Prince — Keck Institute for Space Studies
  • Chris Ruf — Univ. of Michigan
  • Stan Sander — JPL
  • Dave Schimel — JPL
  • Britt Stephens — NCAR
  • Alex Turner — UC Berkeley
  • Duane Waliser — JPL
  • Yuan Wang — Caltech
  • Paul Wennberg — Caltech
  • Yuk Yung — Caltech
  • Susan Anenberg — George Washington University
  • Jeremy Avise — ARB
  • Abhishek Chatterjee — NASA GSFC/GMAO
  • Ron Cohen — UC Berkeley
  • Kevin Donkers — Met Office Informatics Lab (UK)
  • Shane Glass — Google
  • Joost de Gouw — CIRES
  • Michael Garay — JPL
  • Zac Flamig — Amazon
  • Joe Flasher — Amazon
  • Daven Henze — Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
  • Francesca Hopkins — UCR
  • Cesunica (Sunni) Ivey — UCR
  • Olga Kalashnikova — JPL
  • Emma Knowland — NASA/GSFC
  • Jean-Francois Lamarque — NCAR
  • Junjie Liu — JPL
  • Nicole (Nikki) Lovenduski — Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
  • Pami Mukherjee — South Coast AQMD
  • Muye Ru — Duke University
  • Olga Pikelnaya — South Coast AQMD
  • Ben Poulter — NASA GSFC
  • Natasha Stavros — JPL
  • Colm Sweeney — NOAA
  • Andrew Thorpe — JPL
  • Karin Tuxen-Bettman — Google
  • Helen Worden — NCAR
  • Yuqiang Zhang — Duke University