2024 Annual NASA POWER Global Community (GloCo) Summit

The POWER GloCo Summit is a free two-day, virtual event aimed at fostering meaningful connections, exchanging valuable insights, and exploring new opportunities for supporting user communities.


To register, visit the 2024 POWER GloCo Summit Registration Form.

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About

Event Details:

  • Day 1: November 6th from 11:00AM - 3:00PM ET
  • Day 2: November 7th from 11:00AM - 3:00PM ET
  • Location: Virtual (meeting link will be shared with registrants closer to the event)
  • Registration: To register for the event, follow this link. Early registration is highly recommended. You can register to attend either one of both days of the summit.
  • Agenda: The GloCo Summit Agenda is designed to provide you with diverse range of sessions, thought-provoking discussions and feedback opportunities. The agenda will allow you to:

  • Learn about POWER's latest enhancements to data product offerings, including the new version of Data Access Viewer (DAV), and development of projected future climate information.
  • Hear how users are utilizing POWER data through community-driven Lightning Talks.
  • Engage directly with the NASA POWER Project leaders and team.
  • Engage with other users from the POWER community.
  • Provide feedback on POWER data product offerings.

Meet Our NASA Leadership

Shanna Combley portrait

Shanna Combley

Program Manager for Energy Resources

Paul Stackhouse portrait

Dr. Stackhouse is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia and leads the POWER team. He also leads the NASA/Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project, and is a science team member of the Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) project and co-leads the FLASHFlux (Fast Longwave and Shortwave radiative Fluxes) working group.. Dr. Stackhouse completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University in 1989 and 1995 respectively.

Paul Stackhouse Jr, Ph.D.

NASA POWER Chief Scientist

Falguni Patadia portrait

Dr. Patadia is a Research Physical Scientist at the NASA Langley and serves as the Deputy Project Manager for the POWER project. Dr. Patadia’s role involves assisting in POWER project management, future planning, and communications. She provides scientific oversight for algorithm development and data validation activities of the project. She works on growing existing POWER collaborations and building new partnerships in the solar energy, green building, agricultural and climate research communities. Dr. Patadia’s research experience includes aerosol retrievals from satellite observations with a focus on atmospheric corrections, developing methods for estimating aerosol retrieval uncertainty and mapping aerosol types over urban regions. Dr Patadia has also been studying the effect of atmospheric aerosols on Earth's radiation budget using MODIS, MISR and CERES satellite data.

Falguni Patadia, Ph.d.

NASA POWER Research Physical Scientist

Meet Our Keynote Speakers

Ralph Muehleisen portrait

Ralph Muehleisen

Argonne National Laboratory

Mike Bosilovich portrait

Dr. Mike Bosilovich is a meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). While studying meteorology in college, he became passionate about numerical prediction which applies computers and code to simulate the weather. Presently, he works with reanalyses which attempts to bring out the best of models and observations of weather and climate. He is currently working on the NEWS Regional Water Cycle Study to evaluate and explain the MERRA reanalysis representation of the US regional water cycle. As PI for the NASA/GMAO National Climate Assessment (NCA) Enabling Tools project, Dr. Bosilovich is also working on the reanalysis synthesis of EOS Observations to support the NCA and demonstrate utilization of reanalysis data to address sector weather and climate needs. He aims to learn about the interactions of the Earth system through observations and models including water and energy pathways in the atmosphere, and how to best use this data in research and applications for societal impacts.

Mike Bosilovich, PH.D.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Ryan Danks portrait

Ryan Danks

RWDI


Cynthia Rosenzweig, PH.D. portrait

Cynthia Rosenzweig, PH.D.

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

NASA Recognition of Excellence Awards for RETScreen Expert Users

NASA's POWER project and the Natural Resources Canada program entitled "RETScreen International" have collaborated in providing key data products to inform the renewable energy and energy efficiency projects for nearly 25 years. In celebration of this partnership, the RETScreen and POWER teams recognize the achievements made in project related decisions and education by issuing a special NASA award to individual groups that have excelled in utilizing the RETScreen Expert tool with NASA data from POWER. This year's recipients will have an opportunity to describe how they use RETScreen with NASA POWER information to achieve their goals.

Meet Our Awardees

Mats C. Striegler portrait

Mats C. Striegler

National Defence / Government of Canada

Cynthia Princiotta portrait

Cynthia Princiotta

National Defence / Government of Canada

John Hayden portrait

John Hayden

Quandel Energy Solutions


Abdulhameed Owolabi portrait

Abdulhameed Owolabi

Kyungpook National University

Event Schedule

Agenda and event overview.

Learn about NASA Program perspectives and NASA’s engagement in Energy program area

Learn about POWER’s latest advancements and future plans for the project.

Learn about POWER’s latest technology advancements for upcoming v10 Data, Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints, and the Data Access Viewer (DAV).

  1. “Arunai Engineering College / Predictive Maintenance of Solar Photovoltaic Microgrid System” by Saravanan Vasudevan (Renewable Energy)
  2. “Alpha 311 / How NASA POWER Aids Alpha 311’s Customer Journey” by Barry Thompson (Renewable Energy)
  3. “Southern Illinois University / The Impact of Climate Change on Power Systems: Predicting Surface Pressure With Machine Learning” by Siraj Mohammed (Renewable Energy)
  4. “Jimma University / DAV” by Mohammedreha Abafogi (Renewable Energy)

  1. “Huber SE / Design Calculation for Solar Sludge Drying” by André Großer (Sustainable Infrastructure)
  2. “University of Arizona / NASA’s Renewable Energy/ POWER Data: Shaping My Solar Energy Research” by Dr. Jyotsna Singh (Renewable Energy)
  3. “ChuvSUV / Neural Network Multifactor Computational Models for Forecasting Solar Power Plant Output” by Victor Abrukov and Darya Anufrieva (Renewable Energy)

Agenda and event overview.

Hear about POWER’s partner RETScreen as they provide a brief overview of their company.

Hear about how this year's recipients use RETScreen with NASA POWER information to achieve their goals.

  1. “C2Wind / Wind Energy and Power System Modelling User Requirements” by Rémi Gandoin (Renewable Energy)
  2. “University of Freiburg / Modeling the Agrivoltaics Microclimate” by Richmond Kuleape (Renewable Energy, Agroclimatology)
  3. “Davis and Shirtliff / Solar Power Sizing Made Easy” by Kenneth Muturi (Renewable Energy)

  1. “YielData / Enhancing Food Security with Crop Simulation Models” by Mariano Tamburrino (Agroclimatology)
  2. “Moi University / Power System Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation in the Nzoia River Basin” by Stephen Mureithi Kivuti (Sustainable Infrastructure, Agroclimatology)

Join us in a community feedback session to let the POWER Team know your thoughts and ask questions.

Previous Event Recordings

2023 POWER Global Community (GloCo) Summit
2022 POWER Global Community (GloCo) Summit