Month: November 2012

Atmospheric scientist Richard Hansell’s work investigating the longwave radiation effects of dust aerosol in China was the subject of one of NASAs feature stories published on nasa.gov last month. On Oct. 31, NASA ran a story titled “Dust’s Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect,” which honed in on the study performed by Hansell and his colleagues in between the Taklamakan and Gobi Deserts. According to the story, much of the team’s research dealt with data gathered from work with NASA’s …

Associate research scientist Chris Kidd lectured in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, last month, during a training session for the International Precipitation Working Group. At the groups sixth international workshop, Kidd’s seminar was part of the “New and Emerging Technologies, Sensors, and Datasets for Precipitation” training course which ran from Oct. 15 to Oct. 19. Kidd also chaired a discussion session titled “Validation, Verification, and Uncertainty,” and another discussion dealing with …

University of Maryland professor Antonio Busalacchi, Director of ESSIC and Chair of ConE, traveled to Hamburg, Germany in late September to deliver a keynote address at a joint conference between two European research organizations. His presentation on “North Atlantic Climate Variability” was seen by a crowd of scientists from EU-Thor and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (translation: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF for short) Scientists from both …

Researcher: Wilfred Schroeder Grant-Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $157,192 Grant-Study: “Development and Application of Spatially Refined Remote Sensing Active Fire Data Sets in Support of Fire Monitoring, Management, and Planning””…

A study conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park shows that a rise in sea levels within the next century could cause severe damage to city and federal property in Washington, D.C.

The research was conducted by the Clark School of Engineering Center for Technology and Systems Management, and was led by Professor Bilal Ayyub, Haralamb Braileanu, and Naeem Qureshi.

Initially published in the fall of last year, the findings are now particularly important after the so-called