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Thank you for your interest in the Watershed Science Summer Institute to be held at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Read a more detailed description of the program, including dates and expectations here. Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting applications for the 2015 program. For existing applicants or others with any questions about the program, please contact Dorian Janney at dorian.w.janney@nasa.gov

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. Like a lead violin tuning an orchestra, the GPM Core Observatory – launched one year ago on Feb. 27, 2014, as a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency – acts as the standard to unify precipitation measurements from a network of 12 satellites. The result is NASA's Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM data product, called IMERG, which combines all of these data from 12 satellites into a single, seamless map. The map covers more of the globe than any...