Year: 2015

ESSIC Faculty Research Assistant Mathew Biddle, in support of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), helped to facilitate the completion of a joint project to archive data automatically from the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS).   The first data set archived under the new automated process is titled "Oceanographic and surface meteorological data collected from station ATW20 by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and assembled by Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) in the …

ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney has been selected by the Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi as their 2015 Young Investigator Award recipient. The award was established by the Society's Board of Directors in 1996 “to recognize researchers in the early stages of their careers whose outstanding contributions best exemplify the ideals of Sigma Xi.” The award includes an honorarium of $5,000, a commemorative certificate and the opportunity to present the Young …

As part of ESSIC’s end-of-year holiday gathering, the Center continued the annual tradition of recognizing the accomplishments of its own faculty and staff, with two peer-based award for “Best Scientific Research Paper” and “Staff Employee of the Year.” The award for best paper was presented to Assistant Research Scientist Huan Wu. Wu’s paper entitled, “Real-time global flood estimation using satellite-based precipitation and a coupled land surface and routing model” was published in Water …