Earlier this spring, 8 early-career professionals with the NASA DEVELOP Program joined the NASA Acres team at Colorado State University (CSU) to complete 10-week feasibility studies focused on developing use cases for the application of satellite Earth observations (EO) for rangeland and ranch management. Tony Vorster, a research scientist in Warner College’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL), is the primary investigator for the NASA Acres work at CSU that the studies contributed to.

Kennedy Williams recently graduated from Howard University and spoke with Basia Skudrzyk, NASA Acres program coordinator, about her life-changing experience with the BRAAG program (Boosting Representation of African Americans in Geoscience). The BRAAG program is led by Dr. Teamrat Ghezzehei, one of NASA Acres’ principal investigators and Professor at the University of California - Merced in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences.