Year: 2016

Petty Selected as 2016 IASC Early Career Fellow

March 17, 2016

ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Alek Petty was recently appointed by the International Arctic Science Committee’s Cryosphere Working Group as an Early Career Fellow. The three-year appointment will allow Petty to expand on his research in polar science, while engaging in leading-edge scientific activities at a circumarctic and international level. Petty, who studies the changing dynamics of the Arctic sea ice pack, was officially inducted as a fellow at the Arctic Science Summit …

NOAAPORT Installation at UMD M-Square

March 3, 2016

By: Scott Rudlosky

Following nearly three years of coordination, a NOAAPORT Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) antenna, receiver, and server have been installed at the University of Maryland. A 3.7 meter antenna now sits atop the M-Square Building which hosts the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-MD).

The NOAAPORT will provide nearly identical feeds to those received at National Weather Service (NWS) Weather

Li-Cribb organize session at AAAS Annual Meeting

February 17, 2016

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Zhanqing Li facilitated a symposium at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held in Washington, DC during mid- February. The symposium entitled, “Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Policy in Asia,” addressed major pollution/emission sources; the direct and indirect effects of aerosol on long-term trends in key climate variables; interactions between aerosols and the monsoon system; and health …

CICS Annual Reports

February 16, 2016

Scientific Reports from CICS. Includes research highlights as well as a summary of achievements.

http://cicsmd.umd.edu/publication/annual-reports/

Salawitch quoted in Science

February 11, 2016

ESSIC / AOSC / CHEM Professor Ross Salawitch was quoted in a new article recently published in Science. The piece, which originated out of a discussion between Salawitch and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) staff writer Eric Hand, discusses the potential for record ozone loss in the Arctic stratosphere during the spring of 2016. Aptly titled, “Record ozone hole may open over Arctic in the spring,” Salawitch suggested that uncertainty remained …

Antonio Busalacchi Elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 8, 2016

Monday, 8 February 2016

Antonio Busalacchi, professor of atmospheric and ocean science at the University of Maryland and director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Busalacchi was recognized for his contributions to our “understanding of tropical oceans in coupled climate systems via remotely sensed observations and for international leadership of climate prediction/projection research.”

“I am very

Murtugudde quoted in ScienceNews article

February 2, 2016

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in a ScienceNews article on the disappearance of phytoplankton from the Indian Ocean. The piece, which referenced Murtugudde’s recently co-authored study published in Geophysical Research Letters, details the ecological threat posed by rapid loss of phytoplankton. …

Kenney authors paper on Climate Indicators in Climate Change

February 2, 2016

ESSIC Research Assistant Melissa Kenney is the lead-author of a newly published paper that describes the creation of the U.S. National Climate Indicators System (NCIS) developed during the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment. NCIS is a web-based prototype of specific climate indicators used to track nationally-relevant climate change and its impacts over time. The paper was published in a special issue of Climatic Change and is entitled, “Building an …

Busalacchi quoted in recent articles on El Niño, Jason-3

January 27, 2016

ESSIC Director Professor Antonio Busalacchi was quoted in two recently published articles. The first from NASA’s on-line Earth Observatory “Image of the Day” featured entitled, “El Niño Should Be Near Its Peak,” highlighted imagery and comments from scientists regarding the state of the current El Niño event. Busalacchi noted that the event’s precipitation levels had thus far followed classic El Niño patterns. The …

Warmer Oceans Could Produce More Powerful Superstorms

January 19, 2016

Hurricane Sandy became the second costliest hurricane to hit the United States when it blew ashore in October 2012, killing 159 peopleand inflicting $71 billion in damage. Informally known as a “superstorm” after it made landfall, Sandy was so destructive largely because of its unusual size and track. After moving north from the tropical waters where it spawned, Sandy turned out to sea before hooking back west, growing in size and crashing head-on into the East Coast, gaining …