NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team this past week tapped Tracey Holloway, a professor in the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, to lead the multi-institutional effort to help make environmental satellite data more accessible and useful.

“The United States spends hundreds of millions of dollars to have these great systems in place,” says Holloway, an expert on air quality and satellite data. “The idea is to help users get a sense of what is in the air and how it is changing, and inform decision-making around the best quality data.”