About GISS
Research at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal and annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.
GISS is located in New York City. The institute is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is affiliated with Columbia University's Climate School and School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Recent Publications
Spohn, T., A. Roberge, M.J. Way, J.C. Duarte, F. Miozzi, P. Baumeister, P. Byrne, and C.H. Lineweaver, 2026: Exo-geoscience perspectives beyond habitability. Space Sci. Rev., 222, no. 1, 9, doi:10.1007/s11214-026-01265-y.
Nakad, M., A. Potkay, M.A. Hesse, M. Mencuccini, P. Gentine, and E. Weng, 2026: Spatial sucrose sink profiles shape phloem transport efficiency and xylem-phloem water exchange. J. Theor. Biol., 621, 112346, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112346.
Lamb, K.D., C.E. Singer, K. Loftus, H. Morrison, M. Powell, J. Ko, J. Buch, A.Z. Hu, M. van Lier-Walqui, and P. Gentine, 2026: Perspectives on systematic cloud microphysics scheme development with machine learning. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 18, no. 1, e2025MS005341, doi:10.1029/2025MS005341.
Ma, Q., and C. Boulet, 2025: The N2-, O2-, and air-broadened halfwidths and line mixing parameters of the N2O molecule and their temperature dependences. J. Quant. Spectrocs. Radiat. Transfer., 346, 109628, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109628.
