By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument

By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument

Jun 26, 2025

In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, with partners at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and the Naval Postgraduate School, spent two weeks

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