Report detailing main goals of ESSIC and its establishment as well as details about achievements from the past year and programs that ESSIC has been involved with.
Report detailing main goals of ESSIC and its establishment as well as details about achievements from the past year and programs that ESSIC has been involved with.
ESSIS research scientist, Dr. Sinéad Farrell, is participating in the Summer Sea Ice Camp in Barrow, Alaska from May 26-June 2, 2016. The sea ice camp, supported by the NSF Arctic System Science program, will bring together a group of sea ice observers and modelers, from US institutions and at various career stages, to discuss issues related to the measuring and modeling of sea ice. The goal is to better integrate the sea ice research community, so as to improve our ability to observe …
The ESSIC-administered Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland (CICS-MD) hosted a two-day NOAA Workshop on Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Life-Cycle Data Reprocessing to Advance Weather and Climate Applications. First day activities focused on S-NPP instruments, their anomalies, and user recommendation for improvements. On the following day, presentations highlighted improvements and advances to the calibration and validation algorithm required for reprocessing …
Several scientists at the ESSIC-administered Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland (Steve Lord, Isaac Moradi, Christopher Hain, Eugenia Kalnay, Sean P.F. Casey, Jianjun Xu, Jicheng Liu, Li Fang, and Tse-Chun Chen) have coauthored an article accepted for publication in the Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. The article explores how the the establishment of an efficient supercomputer-based Operations-To-Research (O2R) environment–for Satellite …
ESSIC assistant research scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier is an invited speaker at the annual American Institute for Architecture (AIA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Sutton-Grier will present during a session entitled, “Bridging Architecture: Extreme Weather and Troubled Waters in Coastal Cities.” Her talk will address the importance of coastal green and hybrid infrastructure as a means of improving coastal resilience. The conference will take place from …
ESSIC research assistant professor Melissa Kenney will be a participant in the pending national Earth Observations Assessment (EOA 2016), performed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) through the U.S. Group on Earth Observations Subcommittee of the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability. The assessment, which responds to a congressional request, aims to provide an evaluation of the Nation’s current Earth-observing …
ESSIC’s Ariana Sutton-Grier was published this month in Volume 44, Issue 2 of Coastal Management. Her article entitled, “Leveraging Carbon Services of Coastal Ecosystems for Habitat Protection and Restoration” details the efforts of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)–and its partners–to develop new policy opportunities for coastal conservation utilizing “blue carbon.” Blue carbon refers to the carbon stored and sequestered in …
Last April, Prince George’s County became the first county in Maryland to effectively ban hydraulic fracturing within its borders. Local lawmakers voted unanimously to prohibit the practice, which involves pumping pressurized water and chemicals into the ground to crack the underlying shale rock and release a valuable mixture of natural gasses that can be burned to produce energy. While fracking technology has been around since the 1940’s, the United States has only recently …
Last week, hundreds of students, scientists, policy-makers, and business leaders met at the University of Maryland (UMD) to discuss the ever-urgent topic of climate action. Designed as a lead-in to the two-day United Nations sponsored Climate Action Summit held in Washington, D.C. on May 5 – 6, the forum offered a platform for public discussion between a wide variety of stakeholders and interest groups. The event, which was co-organized by members of the UMD academic community, including …
