Year: 2015

The University of Maryland (UMD) is not only one of the top public universities in the nation, but is now the “greenest” university.  According to a recent virtual competition conducted by SaveOnEnergy, a company that helps consumers takes advantage of emerging energy markets. As a play on the annual spring NCAA basketball tournament, the company created a bracketed competition pitting 16 of the tournaments universities against one another.  To determine each …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier was elected as a 2015 early career fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA).  Early Career Fellows are members who have advanced ecological knowledge and applications within 8 years of completing their doctoral training (or other terminal degree), and show promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA.  They are elected for five years.   Awards Committee Chair …

ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Chris Kidd  attended and presented an invited talk at the XVII Simposio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto (Brazillian Remote Sensing Symposium) held in Joao Pessao, Brazil, 25-29 April 2015. A repeat presentation was later made at CPTEC, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil on 30 April 2015….

Sigma Xi’s 2015 national Young Investigator Award will be given to Dr. Melissa A. Kenney of the University of Maryland.  Dr. Kenney's research broadly addresses how to integrate both uncertain scientific knowledge and societal values into decision-making. This research is inherently multidisciplinary—drawing on the fields of decision analysis, environmental sciences, and public policy— to address a range of topics including water …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier attended the North American Blue Carbon, Forest Carbon and Land Cover Experts’ Meeting in Sian Ka’an and Playa del Carmen, Mexico this month.   Sponsored by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the workshop brought experts together to identify and share models, tools and information that measure coastal blue carbon, and to discuss and develop guidance on optimizing blue carbon scientific research….

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Zhanging Li was featured in the print and online versions of the American Geophysical Union’s “Earth & Space Science News,”  announcing his  2014 Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award.    …

ESSIC Research Associate Linette Boisvert presented an invited talk at this month’s European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, entitled “Moisture flux increases seen in the Arctic between 2003-2013.”  She also presented a poster at the same meeting entitled, ”AIRS satellite data reveal a warmer and wetter Arctic between 2003-2013.” Earlier this month, Boisvert’s research was featured in a NASA Earth Observatory Image of the day “Arctic Moisture on the Move.”…