Year: 2019

A new paper co-authored by ESSIC Director / AOSC Chair Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm has been highlighted in the Featured Research section in PLOS’s “Crops, Food Security & Food Systems” channel.  The paper, titled “The Paris pledges and the energy-water-land nexus in Latin America: Exploring implications of greenhouse gas emission reductions,” discusses the 2015 Paris pledges made by nations worldwide to avert the threat of climate change. The pledges, …

Last week, ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Scientist Sinéad Farrell presented at the European Space Agency’s 2019 Living Planet Symposium in Milan, Italy. The international event, going by #LPS19 on social media, was focused on celebrating the contributions that Earth observations bring to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional landscape and creating new opportunities. Tuesday afternoon, Farrell presented the very first …

Last week, Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier gave a keynote speech at ACCESS 2019, a coastal & estuarine science and management event held at Saint Mary’s University. Sutton-Grier spoke about natural infrastructure, such as salt marshes, mangrove trees, and dunes, and how it can protect shorelines from erosion in the wake of worsening natural disasters.  Natural infrastructure, unlike grey (manmade, built) infrastructure is more cost effective, grows stronger as it …

Last week, it was announced that ESSIC / CICS-MD Visiting Research Scientist Tom Smith and ESSIC / CICS-MD Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph R. Ferraro will be receiving The Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, the highest honor that can be bestowed by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere that marks outstanding contributions to the efficiency and effectiveness of their operating unit. Smith, who is also a physical scientist in Satellite Applications and …

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently wrote a piece in Tech2 detailing how sea surface temperatures can determine the strength of a monsoon. He wrote this in the eve of Cyclone Fani, a strong tropical cyclone that made landfall on the coast of Odisha, India on Friday, May 3. Fani originated from the Bay of Bengal, a part of the Indian Ocean with sea surface temperatures above 28°C, the threshold for atmospheric deep convection.  These warm temperatures serve as an energy source for …