Month: May 2013

By: Scott Rudlosky

The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland (CICS-MD) at ESSIC has launched a summer program to provide training and outreach opportunities for both graduate (4) and undergraduate (8) students.

The CICS-MD Summer Initiative (CSI) pairs students with mentors to conduct original scientific research and help train future NOAA scientists. The 2013 CSI provides a framework that includes software tutorials, informal student presentations, weather/climate discussions, and

ESSIC Research Associate Michael Folmer and Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky, recently presented at the NOAA Science Days Briefing in Silver Spring, Maryland. NOAA Science Days was created as a vehicle to highlight recent NOAA work and to inform senior NOAA leadership of happenings in the agency. The pair presented talks on two exciting new instruments that will be housed on the future GOES-R satellite. Folmer’s presentation described the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), …

Associate Research Scientist Yudong Tian was the NASA Goddard Terrestrial Water Cycle Seminar speaker on April 10, with a topic of “Land Surface Microwave Emissivity: Uncertainties, Dynamics and Modeling”….

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde gave an invited talk at the workshop ‘Cross-Atlantic Dialogue on Climate Adaptation in Coastal and Mountain Regions’ hosted by the Climate Service Center, Hamburg, Germany, April 16-19. Murtugudde’s talk was on “Generating Actionable Regional Climate Information.”…

ESSIC hosted faculty, scientists, and students from each academic institutional partner of the NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS), April 25-27. The participants met with NOAA scientists and stakeholders to share research results, discuss project status, and explore opportunities for research-to-operations and research-to-applications. The mission of NCAS (run by Howard University) is to increase the number of highly qualified, well-trained graduates in NOAA-related sciences….

Abigail Ahlert (sophomore, AOSC) has been selected as a 2013 Hollings Scholar by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Ahlert has been an active leader and participant in extracurricular activities at UMD. She is a co-founder and president of the American Meteorological Society student chapter at UMD, a writer for the Scientific Terrapin, and a member of the Student Judiciary Board….

ESSIC / AOSC Professor, Raghu Murtugudde, presented a talk on the El Niño/La Niña–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on two successive days. The first was as featured guest speaker at the Climate & Radiation Laboratory Seminar Series at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  Murtugudde reprised the talk entitled “Do We Really Understand ENSO,” the following afternoon at the UMD Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Departmental Seminar Series….

Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background seen during an IceBridge survey flight. Sea ice coverage in the fjord ranges from thicker, white ice seen in the background, to thinner grease ice and leads showing open ocean water in the foreground. Credit: NASA / Michael Studinger

With several weeks of science flights in the books, researchers with NASA’s Operation IceBridge are on the way to completing another successful campaign to maintain and expand a dataset …