Tracing the Carbon Journey: From Wildfires to Ocean Blooms

Between September 2019 and March 2020, wildfires killed billions of animals and decimated more than 200 thousand square kilometers of Australian forest, an area larger than Nebraska. Later, thousands of kilometers away in the Southern Ocean, massive algae blooms covered a surface larger than the area of Australia itself. The connection between these major wildfires and the subsequent explosion of phytoplankton production is an example of the events NASA's upcoming Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will help investigate. PACE's suite of instruments will allow scientists to get a clearer picture of carbon as it links land use and fires, atmospheric aerosols and marine communities, and ultimately improves those uncertain the data we put into climate models. Video descriptions available: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014300/a014315/script_34113_01.html Music: "On the Trail," "Idle at Midnight," "Synthetic Comfort," Universal Production Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Lead Writer Narrator Jeremy Werdell (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist Chris Burns (KBRWyle): Lead Animator Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Visualizer Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer Rob Andreoli (AIMM): Lead Videographer This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14315. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.nasa.gov/14315. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines.If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc