Year: 2015

Registration is now open for the 4th Annual CICS-MD Science Meeting. It will be held on Monday, November 23, and Tuesday. November 24. The meeting will be in the ESSIC Large Conference Room, across from NCWCP in College Park, MD. We encourage all CICS-MD scientists to submit an abstract for a talk or a poster. There will be some changes this year to the usual mix of invited talks, keynote speakers, and contributed talks and posters. If you are working as a team of three or more people, …

CREST graduate student and former CICS-MD intern Equisha Glenn has published an article on her PhD research in an upcoming issue in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). The article documents a sea surface temperature warming trends in the Caribbean region over the last 30 years. Glenn coauthored the article with ESSIC / CICS-MD Research Associate Daniel Comarazamy and ESSIC / CICS-MD Visiting Associate Research Scientist Tom …

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched a new resource management research program, Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS), and the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) hopes to be part of the push. At the NSF-sponsored Food-Energy-Water Nexus Workshop on Oct. 27 and 28, ESSIC researchers and their colleagues from around the nation and the world met at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde is featured in a recent Livescience post entitled, “A Tale of 2 Worlds: Nations Collide on Climate Change.”  The post contrasts the struggles and differences between poor and wealthy nations with respect to climate change and also discuss the current challenges faced by the international community to arrive at a consensus on climate action.  http://www.livescience.com/52690-climate-wont-improve-if-rich-nations-ignore-poor.html…

ESSIC's Miliaritiana Robjhon attended and gave a presentation on the 2014 Primera drought over Central America at the NOAA 40th Climate Diagnostic and Prediction Workshop, which was held in Denver, CO from October 26-29, 2015….

ESSIC Director Professor Antonino Busalacchi was recently quoted in a Baltimore Sun story on the evolving 2015 El Nino event.  The article premise discussed what opportunities the event provided to climate scientists for enhanced understanding of its lower-level impacts to the planet and how satellites would be used to monitor its evolution.  Busalacchi agreed that scientists now have better observations tool at hand, but those tools alone wouldn't necessarily improve future El …

ESSIC's Melissa Kenney was a keynote speaker at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference held this year in Kansas City, Mo.  Kenney  was also formally presented with the Sigma Xi  2015 Young Investigator Award (YIA) at the event.  The award is presented annually to recognize an excellent active Sigma Xi member within 10 years of his or her highest earned degree. (The annual meeting was held from October 22 – 25, 2015.)  Kenney particapated in a …