Month: August 2018

Okay, yet another hotel+restaurant has opened along Route 1. The Cambria aims to fill the price point between your Holiday Inn type place and The Hotel UMD “luxury”-type place. The College Park Grill is at street level in the Cambria. Maybe I should call it Burtons Bar and Grill #2. Different owners/general menus, but the look/vibe is pretty much the same … darkish décor, going for the upscale thing, background jazz music. What’s novel about CPG is that every …

Thursday, 16 August 2018

A team of University of Maryland (UMD) researchers co-led by Melissa Kenney and Mike Gerst from UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland, has received a $750,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to explore and improve how infrastructure operators make recovery decisions in the wake of disasters.

The three-year award is part of NSF’s Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes

Ralph Ferraro* and ESSIC / CICS-MD Scientist Nai-Yu Wang are co-authors of a recent in press article at the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.  The piece highlights the recent work of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG), an international forum used to address the issues and challenges of satellite-based quantitative precipitation retrievals and products. *Ralph R. Ferraro is the Chief of the NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Climate Studies Branch (collocated with …

On June 2, a severe storm threatened Rock the South, an outdoor music festival in Cullman, Alabama.  In an effort to avoid delaying or canceling the event, forecasters used technology enabled by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), a satellite-based lightning mapping instrument designed to aid storm predictions.  With the lightning imagery, they could tell that the storm would skirt the festival and the music proceeded as planned. The GLM, a device aboard the GOES-16 satellite, maps …