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Jenny Bratburd

Researcher and HAQAST Outreach Program Manager, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
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About Jenny

Bratburd is a researcher and science communicator focused on intersections between health, air pollution, and climate change. Bratburd serves as the Outreach Program Manager for the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST), which connects NASA data, particularly satellite data, with real world health and air quality problems. Bratburd has also served as consultant with the National Academies of Sciences, working on the health benefits and risks of climate change related to decarbonization policies. Themes of her work include communication of health impacts of environmental policies.

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There Will be a Deadly Price for Erasing Environmental Data

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"Incorporating Satellite Data Updates into AirNow" (with Pawan Gupta, Shobha Kondragunta, Hai Zhang, Barron H. Henderson, Phil Dickerson, Alqamah Sayeed, Yang Liu, Jingqiu Mao, Dimple Pruthi, Keerthi Gudipudi, John E. White, Rachel Wyatt, Amber J. Soja, Robert Levy, Randall V. Martin, Sundar A. Christopher, and Nathan R. Pavlovic), AirNow, 2022.

Describes recent updates to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow system, integrating the use of fused air quality data products that will ultimately allow decision-makers and the public to make informed choices to protect health and better understand their local air quality.

"Satellite Data for Use in the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Process" (with Arlene Fiore and Daegan Miller), The Magazine for Environmental Managers, November 2021.

Provides a primer introducing a suite of easy-to-follow technical guidance documents designed to help illustrate common applications of satellite data, which was developed by a collaborative team of NASA-funded scientists and public stakeholders.

"The Four Things to Know about Satellite Data for Air Quality Management" (with Tracey Holloway), The Magazine for Environmental Managers, September 2021.

Introduces four key ideas to support air quality managers’ use of satellite data products, noting that satellite data products are increasingly becoming part of the air quality management toolbox.