News from the Lab

June 2020. Heidi Dierssen is selected as the Science Team Leader for the NASA Plankton Aerosol Cloud and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.
https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov/

May 2020. Heidi Dierssen is elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering CASE.

30 July, 2018. As part of the team that built the Cubesat Snow Water Imaging Spectrometer (SWIS), we were awarded a NASA Group Achievement Award.

1 June, 2018. Dr. Dierssen was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship from the Belgian Government to conduct work on hyperspectral remote sensing at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Oostende, Belgium. She will be on sabbatical for the 2018-2019 Academic year working on the project.