This week’s ecoinformatics speaker was Nancy Kiang, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences. During a whirlwind visit, Nancy gave back-to-back presentations — her ecoinformatics seminar, titled “Geometric optical radiative transfer as the link between remote sensing, plant canopy form and function for Earth System Models“, and the Department of Astronomy & Planetary Science (DAPS) colloquium, titled “System science for sparse exoplanet statistics: Habitability metrics from a ROCKE-3D perturbed parameter ensemble“; she also met with students and faculty, experienced some of Flagstaff’s finer culinary treats, saw the ACE Lab MICADAS, visited the Lowell Observatory, and toured the pueblos at Wupatki National Monument and the volcanic landscape at Sunset Crater National Monument. Thanks to SICCS and DAPS for co-sponsoring the visit.
