Year: 2015

ESSIC Director Antonio Busalacchi spoke Oct. 6 at a meeting of the Maryland Space Business Roundtable in Greenbelt. A leader in developing the United States’ agenda for the next decade of space-based Earth science, Busalacchi informed the gathering of scientists, businesspeople and government employees about the challenges and opportunities in store for Earth observations. With tight budgets at NASA and a long wish list of programs, he said, the nation needs a “robust, …

ESSIC’s Melissa Kenney is the co-author of a recent guest editorial published in the October 2015 issue of the Ecological Society of America's (ESA) Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.  The editorial entitled, “Developing better indicators to track climate impacts,” was authored with Anthony Janetos, current Director of the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.     Anthony C Janetos and Melissa A Kenney 2015. …

I do like autumn in the DC area. If there's not a dance or film festival going on, there's a food festival. This weekend, it's the Armenian Food Festival and the menu looks good. Check it out – I plan to. stmaryaac.org —    …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor and CICS Executive Director Fernando Miralles, recently attended the International Sustainable Development Conference held at Columbia University.  Miralles participated in a panel discussion focused on the use of social media to improve communication of climate science to policy makers and the general public. Miralles also took part in a post-discussion exercise the combined Q&A videos with brief statements.  This content will become the basis for a …

ESSIC researcher Can Li has been announced as the 2015 recipient of the Best Senior Author Publication award by the Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Division Atmospheres (GSFC 610AT).   The annual award program for contractors and partners singled out Li’s 2015 paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, with the following accolade; "For creative implementation of a novel and efficient principal component algorithm for satellite formaldehyde …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in a recent article in the Indian publication, The Wire, regarding global warming and its effect on South Asia’s annual monsoon season.  Murtugudde's research on the warming of the Indian Ocean was also referenced in the piece. <http://thewire.in/2015/09/23/a-warming-earth-could-mean-monsoons-could-change-course-and-india-must-prepare-11429/>…

A recent NASA study co-authored by several ESSIC scientists has been selected for inclusion in IOP Publishing’s permanent monthly highlight archive for August 2015.  Originally published in Environmental Research Letters the study entitled, “Impact of urbanization on US surface climate,” found vegetation was essential for limiting city warming effects. ESSIC researchers Ping Zhang (2nd author), Georgy Mostovoy, and Marc Imhoff contributed to the …

ESSIC researcher Ariana Sutton-Grier recently summarized NOAA’s blue carbon efforts in a blog piece posted on the blueforests website.  The Blue Forests Project is a four year initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and co-financed by project partners, and managed by GRID-Arendal, a Norwegian foundation and center collaborating with UNEP.  The project seeks to provide the first global-scale assessment of …

ESSIC researcher Melissa Kenney and her team recently hosted an informal meeting with Dennis Bours, a consultant for the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office.  As the visit came to a close, Kenney asked Bours what he would do with 200 million US Dollars to improve the monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation and sustainable development.  Although he had some immediate thoughts, the intriguing question inspired Bours to pose the same …