Month: May 2016

As part of the University of Maryland’s (UMD) 2016 Earth Day program, the student-based group, TERP Climate, hosted a forum designed to raise awareness and educate attendees on climate change. The 4-hour event, which catered to students and faculty members alike, featured a range of both UMD and outside experts who discussed   various aspects of climate change. Although its primary mission is to encourage multidisciplinary discussion about climate change, TERP Climate also emphasizes …

A recently published study by the World Bank reports that climate-driven water scarcity could impact the economic growth of many regions by as much as 6 percent.  The report entitled,” High and Dry: Climate Change, Water and the Economy,” was written by a team led by the World Bank’s Lead Economist, Richard Damania.  The authors acknowledge that the report drew on the background papers and research of a World Bank-funded University of Maryland-centric …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier was a co-author of a guest editorial in the Ecological Society of America journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment; (Vol 14, Issue 4, May 2016, Pg 175).  The article entitled, "Making ecosystem services part of business as usual in federal governance," revisits the Executive Branch memo from the fall of 2015, which emphasized the inclusion of ecosystem services in the decision making processes of federal agencies….

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was cited in a recent India Climate Dialogue article.  The piece entitled, "Researchers identify leading monsoon indicators," discusses how the analysis of air temperatures and relative humidity within key areas–rather than aggregate rainfall–may better predict the arrival and departure of the country's monsoon season….