ESSIC / Geol Associate Professor Sujay Kaushal was cited in a Washington Post article on how heavy usage of road salt this past Winter has resulted in brown tap water in Montgomery County, Maryland. Kaushal noted that higher-sodium water is more likely to disturb manganese sediment on pipe walls, which in turn discolors water….
ESSIC Director Professor Antonio Busalacchi was interviewed by the Canadian publication Globe and Mail for a piece on how global warming is ruining prized French red wine. Busalacchi noted that grape vine leaves close when air temperatures exceed 30 C, effectively halting the plant’s photosynthesis. Busalacchi stated that the number of 30 C days is likely to triple by mid-century.
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ESSIC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was cited in two different articles in India Climate Dialogue this past month. The first discusses urban heat island effect and the second addresses how a warming Indian Ocean is weakening the South Asian summer monsoon….
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We've all seen the headlines: California is struggling with a historic drought that promises to worsen as the summer wears on. Forecasts of an El Niño in 2014 brought hopes of winter precipitation and much needed relief, but El Niño played truant, as it had just two years prior in 2012. With another El Niño predicted this upcoming winter, now is the perfect time to ask: Why have climate scientists' predictions gone wrong? What are we …
ESSIC researcher Stephanie Schollaert Uz, lead architect of ESSIC/CICS-MD “ClimateBits” multimedia project, was a contributor at the recent World Ocean Day celebration. Held at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on June 7-8, Uz's activity was entitled, "Ocean Color Measured by Satellites and You." The activity featured the ESSIC "Science on a Sphere" display–the Magicplanet–and was presented in the museum's Q'rius Lab. …
With many scientists and academics locked into a busy year-round cycle of generating data, analyzing results, and subsequently attempting to publish their findings, some may not have the time or energy to consider whether their studies are being read or used. A recent article in The Straits Times acknowledged this potential pitfall, intimating that few people read academic journal articles entirely, largely due to the length of the pieces and the difficulty in accessing the journals. The …
Professor Raghu Murtugudde was cited in a Livescience post regarding the devastating heat wave currently affecting India. Murtugudde explained that wind circulations typically responsible for ushering in moisture from the Arabian Sea have instead originated out of the northern Indian deserts, delivering dry air and blistering heat as opposed to the expected rainfall. Over 1000 people have died as a direct result of the extreme conditions, although some researchers feel the …
ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Hongbin Yu was an invited speaker at a NOAA-sponsored Symposium on “Airborne Dust, Climate Change, and Human Health” in Miami, Florida, May 19-21, 2015. His presentation was entitled “Characterization of the temporal-spatial variability of trans-Atlantic dust transport based on CALIPSO lidar measurements”. The conference theme addressed how climate change might affect future dust transport in the Greater Caribbean Region and …
ESSIC Director Professor Antonio Busalacchi spent two days on Capitol Hill this month discussing a new bill to improve seasonal weather forecasts. Busalacchi visited with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren among others as part of the talks. Busalacchi also appeared on Fox Baltimore Television affiliate Fox45 in a segment on the effects of the west coast drought on California’s wine industry and how Maryland vineyards and prices might be impacted as a result….
