SARP West 2025 Oceans Group

Faculty Advisor: Henry Houskeper, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute  Graduate Mentor: Camille Pawlak, University of California, Los Angeles  Oceans Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Henry Housekeeper Molly McKellar Spatiotemporal dynamics of canopy-forming kelp forests in the Russian province of Kamchatka  Maria (Molly) McKellar, University of Wisconsin, Madison  Interannual variability in canopy-forming kelps and the environmental conditions in […]

SARP West 2025 Whole Air Sampling Group

Faculty Advisor: Donald Blake, University of California, Irvine Graduate Mentor: Oluwaseun Moses Akinola, University of Connecticut Whole Air Sampling Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Donald Blake Sarah Kinlaw Impact of Dairies on Ozone Production in Ontario, CA  Sarah Kinlaw, College of William & Mary  In the center of Ontario, California’s urban sprawl sits 5 square miles […]

SARP East 2025 Ecohydrology Group

Faculty Advisor: Dom Ciruzzi, William & Mary Graduate Mentor: Sarah Payne, University of California, Santa Barbara Ecohydrology Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Dom Ciruzzi and Graduate Mentor Sarah Payne Ethan Bledsoe Uncovering Hidden Green to Reveal Water: Can Spectral Unmixing of Vegetation Reduce Evapotranspiration Bias in Semi-Arid Landscapes?  Ethan Bledsoe, Northwestern University  Deserts push life to its […]

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS

Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object — from the closest location any of the agency’s spacecraft may get — that could reveal new details. At the start of October, three of NASA’s Mars spacecraft had front row seats to view 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object so far discovered in […]

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS

Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object — from the closest location any of the agency’s spacecraft may get — that could reveal new details. At the start of October, three of NASA’s Mars spacecraft had front row seats to view 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object so far discovered in […]

NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus

Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in a plume of ice particles ejected from the ocean that lies under […]