Biography
Carl Malings is a research scientist at Morgan State University, working in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Carl is an expert on data fusion techniques and is part of the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), combining Earth system models with satellite data to address health and air quality needs worldwide. He serves as co-lead of the GEO Health Community of Practice Air Quality, Wildfires, and Respiratory Health Work Group, and is a trainer for the NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program.
HAQAST Project: Scaling Data Fusion Tools to Support Local Air Quality Managers in Latin America
Carl’s team will demonstrate global applicability of NASA satellite data and tools towards stakeholder needs such as optimizing air monitor placement, air quality forecasting, and developing datasets compatible with epidemiological studies. The team will leverage current and future NASA instruments, models and data products including Goddard Earth Observing System Composition Forecast (GEOS-CF), VIIRS, MAIA, AERONET, Pandora ground-based spectrometers, as well as non-NASA data from TROPOMI and local air quality monitoring systems.
Project goals / deliverables:
- Optimize air quality monitoring network expansion in Rio, Brazil
- Prepare for and supplement the NASA MAIA mission in Maule, Chile
- Enable a new air quality forecasting capability in Bolivia
Co-investigators and partners: Nathan Pavlovic (Sonoma Technology, Inc.), Daniel King (Sonoma Technology, Inc.), Bryan Duncan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Emma Knowland (Morgan State University), Megan Damon (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.), Sina Hasheminassab (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Daniel Westervelt (Columbia Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Sebastián Diez (Univerisidad del Desarrollo), Colleen Rosales (OpenAQ), Russ Biggs (OpenAQ), Felipe Mandarino (Rio de Janeiro City Government), Vicente Lorca (Maule Regional Government), Felipe Bueno (US State Department Bolivia)
HAQAST Publications
GEO Health Community of Practice Air Quality, Wildfires, and Respiratory Health Work Group White Paper
Carl Malings, Nathan R. Pavlovic, Sebastian Diez, Jennifer Bratburd, Olayinka Osuolale.
Augmenting the Standard Operating Procedures of Health and Air Quality Stakeholders With NASA Resources
Bryan N. Duncan, Carl A. Malings, K. Emma Knowland, Daniel C. Anderson, Ana I. Prados, Christoph A. Keller, Kevin R. Cromar, Steven Pawson, Holli Ensz, GeoHealth
Forecasting with GEOS-CF System and Other NASA Resources to Support Air Quality Management
Forecasting with GEOS-CF System and Other NASA Resources to Support Air Quality Management.
Carl Malings, K. Emma Knowland, Christoph Keller, Stephen Kohn, Bryan Duncan and Nathan Pavlovic, Advances in Air Quality Research in Africa
Open Air Quality Data Platforms for Environmental Health Research and Action
Open Air Quality Data Platforms for Environmental Health Research and Action.
Colleen Marciel Rosales, Jennifer R. Bratburd, Sebastian Diez, Sara Duncan, Carl Malings and Pallavi Pant.
A framework for advancing independent air quality sensor measurements via transparent data generating process classification
Sebastian Diez, Thomas J Bannan, Miriam Chacón-Mateos, Pete M Edwards, Valerio Ferracci, Doğuşhan Kılıç, Alastair C Lewis, Carl Malings, Nicholas A Martin, Olalekan Popoola, Colleen Rosales, Sean Schmitz, Phillipp Schneider, Erika Von Schneidemesser. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science
Supporting Undermonitored Regions with Satellite Data and Model Outputs
Supporting Undermonitored Regions with Satellite Data and Model Outputs.
Jenny Bratburd, Pawan Gupta, Carl Malings, and Randall Martin. EM.
A Survey of Applications of the NASA GEOS-CF Global Atmospheric Composition Forecasts: Case Studies for NASA Open Data and Earth Science to Action
Carl A. Malings, Viral Shah, Pamela A. Wales, K. Emma Knowland, Christoph A. Keller, Callum Wayman, Joseph Ardizzone, Lesley Ott, Steven Pawson, Amy Jenness, Austin Rau, Jingqiu Mao, Zhiwei Dong, Matthew S. Johnson, Maurice Roots, Felipe Mandarino, Noussair Lazrak, Beatriz Cardenas, and George Mwaniki. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
The potential of micro air sensors for democratizing air quality monitoring and mirroring air pollution at schools using citizen science
Collins Gameli Hodoli, Victor Dzidefo Ablo, Lily Ama Appiagyei, Joshua Appiah, Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, Carl Malings. Atmospheric Environment: X.