NOAA Is Flying Research Missions During Lockdowns to Improve Climate Models
by Yessenia Funes on Earther, shared by Brian Kahn to from on (#53GSV)

In the past week alone, Xinrong Ren has taken four flights. He's not actually headed anywhere, though. Ren is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. He's been taking to the skies since February as part of a federal research project with the National...