Raghu Murtugudde gave invited talks on “Optimal Physics for Actionable Climate Information,” at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India (NIO), January 2 and ‘Do we really understand ENSO?’ on January 3. On January 6 he talked about “From the Big Bang to the Cooperative Species” at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune….
ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney is the lead author for Decision Support Chapter of the 3rd U.S. National Climate Assessment. The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC was established under the Department of Commerce in December 2010 and is supported through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NCADAC has engaged more than 240 authors in the creation of the report. The authors are acknowledged at the beginning of the …
Michael Folmer (ESSIC) was recognized by the NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) “for outstanding efforts to integrate experimental data into a National Center or Weather Forecast Office operations,” December 2012. SPoRT is a NASA project to transition unique observations and research capabilities to the operational weather community to improve short-term forecasts on a regional scale….
Bottom line: Clean modern look, a decent vegetarian joint If you're sick to death of SweetGreen salads, head down to Ovo. Pick your rice (white or brown) and pick a vegetable protein topping and a sauce ($7) – there's a mix-and-match menu posted inside … add a salad/soup/drink for a few bucks more. They have appetizers, too … chose the enoki fries and adored them. Big bunches of enoki in a light kinda tempura batter with a spicy mustard dipping sauce … YUM. Also sampled the …
On Wednesday, January 30, former Senator of Maryland Joe Tydings spoke at the University of Maryland on the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
The discussion was hosted by the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and included an audience largely comprised by School of Public Health graduate students.
The former Senator of Maryland is a graduate of the University of Maryland, as well as the University of Maryland Law School. He now serves on the University of Maryland Medical
I’ve been a fan of snowstorms since I can remember, probably because I grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon where significant snow is a once-per-decade event (at least there was one storm of consequence in the 10 years that I remember). I moved to Silver Spring in June 1961 and rewarded with consistently snowy winters – the 60s averaged almost 2’ per year at National airport (DCA). Occasionally we would have a winter without much snow, but it was rare to get two in a row. Last
On the heels of the 93rd annual AMS Meeting, ESSIC Director & ConE Chair Professor, Antonio Busalacci, led a delegation of UMD Officials on a visit to the Oklahoma University Research Campus (URC) in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s University Research Campus is a collaborative environment where academia, industry, and government build on the university’s intellectual vitality. Busalacchi, who chairs the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) for the National Research Council, …
Over 35 UMD, NOAA, and NASA scientists, met at the M-Square Research Park Friday, January 18, 2013, to discuss current and emerging cryospheric research opportunities. The word “cryosphere,” which comes from the Greek word for cold, pertains to the frozen areas of the earth. The meeting, which included a number of cryospheric presentations and discussion topics, was organized by ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead Farrell, a member of both NASA’s Operation IceBridge Science and …
UMD ESSIC Director and professor Antonio Busalacchi has been named “Chair-Elect” of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “Section W” on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences. Busalacchi’s term within the section’s governing body will consist of 3 distinct cycles: Chair Elect, Chair, and finally Retiring Chair. When asked about the significance of Section W within AAAS and what objectives he might hope to see realized during his tenure, Busalacchi recalled both a …
At the December 2012 NOAA CPC ocean briefing, it was reported that the ESSIC researcher Rong-Hua Zhang’s Intermediate Coupled Model (ICM) has continued to outperform others of its kind, in predicting the “Nino 3.4 Region” Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies, which classify El Niño (La Niña) episodes. As defined by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) web-page on Sea Surface Temperatures (SST), “El Niño (La Niña) is a phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific Ocean characterized …
