image: Helen Conover (left), of NASA's Global Hydrology Resource Center at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, presents a poster to Deanna Hence (right), mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, at NASA's airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission science and deployment preparation meeting at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
In 2010, Helen worked on another NASA hurricane mission, the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) field program. GRIP was a six-week NASA research campaign that used three research aircraft to study the inner workings of how hurricanes form and intensify.
Deanna is a post-doctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard with experience processing and analyzing radar, satellite, aircraft, and other meteorological data. She has field campaign experience and interest in a broad array of mid-latitude and tropical convective- through synoptic-scale meteorological phenomena. She will be continuing on as a professor at the University of Illinois this coming August.
NASA's airborne HS3 mission will revisit the Atlantic Ocean for the third year in a row. HS3 is a collaborative effort that brings together several NASA centers with federal and university partners to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin. The flights from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia take place between Aug. 26 and Sept. 29 during the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season that runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
For more about NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission visit: www.nasa.gov/hs3
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Ames/Dominic Hart Text: Rachel Hoover NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California Rob Gutro NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland