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NASA EOSDIS 2020 Data User Profile Yearbook Released

NASA EOSDIS 2020 Data User Profile Yearbook showcases scientists, researchers, managers, and educators and the datasets that make their work possible.

Data User Story

Jan. 4, 2021

Winter Blooms in the Arabian Sea

A tiny organism and its tenants make an unexpected appearance.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

After a rainstorm, a loader removes trash with high concentrations of plastic at the mouth of the Los Angeles River in Long Beach, California.

Wasting Away

Mapping stormwater runoff in Southern California helps keep toxins at bay.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

River water is part of life in Bangladesh and when contaminated it can spread cholera.

The Time of Cholera

The color of water could be a tool for heading off epidemics.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Juvenile blue chromis linger near the branches of an Acropora millepora colony off Lizard Island on the Northern Great Barrier Reef.

The Researcher, the Reef, and a Storm

Can marine reserves protect Earth’s underwater nurseries?

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

The Mysterious Lives of Leatherbacks

Knowing how leatherback sea turtles migrate could keep them safer.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

This image of Turkey offers a comparison of the color of the Black Sea (top of the image), which shows a phytoplankton bloom, and the Mediterranean Sea (bottom of the image)

Spin Cycle

So much depends on the ocean's deep churn.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Pacific bluefin tuna are prodigious swimmers, able to cross the Pacific Ocean in less than a month.

Shadowing the Tuna Boats

Logbooks, satellites, and game theory help steward tuna in the Pacific.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

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NASA EOSDIS 2020 Data User Profile Yearbook Released

Winter Blooms in the Arabian Sea

Wasting Away

The Time of Cholera

The Researcher, the Reef, and a Storm

The Mysterious Lives of Leatherbacks

Spin Cycle

Shadowing the Tuna Boats

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