Year: 2013

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 …

The Baltimore Sun published a health-related feature in April 2013, which highlighted the results of a recently published study led by ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, Hongbin Yu. The paper, authored by Yu and a team of NASA, UMBC, and UMCP scientists was published by Science Magazine in August 2012. The study presented data derived from NASA satellite observations, that estimates the amount of airborne particles reaching North America from oversees is comparable to the total mass of …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, Maria Tzortziou co-authored an article entitled “Effects of Local Meteorology and Aerosols on Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide Retrievals from OMI and Pandora Spectrometers in Maryland, USA during DISCOVER-AQ 2011,” published in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ (Open Access, J Atmos Chem, DOI 10.1007/s10874-013-9254-9). The lead Author is Andra Reed from the Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, and …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, Maria Tzortziou and colleagues at UMD (Chris Loughner), NASA (Jay Herman, Alexander Cede and Nader Abuhassan), and Tzortziou’s undergraduate intern Sheenali Naik (UMD, Environmental Science and Policy Department), published an article in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ entitled “Spatial and temporal variability of ozone and nitrogen dioxide over a major urban estuarine ecosystem.” Tzortziou contributed this piece …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, Maria Tzortziou was invited to participate in NASA’s next GEO-CAPE Science Team Meeting to present results from her studies on atmosphere-ocean interactions in urban estuarine environments.  Tzortziou will also lead an ocean discipline session topic, present in the plenary session, and provide an overview of the 2011 NASA Chesapeake Bay field campaign where she served as co-chief scientist.  The next GEO-CAPE Science Team Meeting will be held at NASA Ames, …