A NOAA group including ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph Ferraro was recently awarded a NOAA Bronze Medal, the highest honor that can be granted by NOAA administrators. The group also included NESDIS recipients Al Wissman, Karen St. Germain, Mitch Goldberg, and Harry Cikanek, the Director of the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research.
In March, a large region of very low ozone opened up above the Arctic, rivaling the historic Antarctic ozone hole that forms in the southern hemisphere each year. Extensive regions of low column ozone in the Arctic is a rare event that came about due to a very cold polar stratospheric vortex, which caused the formation of high altitude clouds and ozone-destroying reactions.
Ellen D. Williams, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, has been named director of the university’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2020.
On April 30, 2020, NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) and NESDIS’ Office of Satellite and Product Operations retired CRW’s heritage twice-weekly global 50km satellite coral bleaching heat stress monitoring product suite, replacing it with CRW’s next-generation daily global 5km coral bleaching heat stress monitoring products.
A study led by ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Bailing Li was one of the most downloaded papers in the recent publication history of Wiley. The paper, titled “Global GRACE Data Assimilation for Groundwater and Drought Monitoring: Advances and Challenges” and published in Water Resources Research, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers between January 2018 and December 2019.
Santiago Gassó, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, was recently interviewed by the local NPR station (KTEP) at the University of Texas, El Paso for the broadcast “Science Studio”.
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Seminar SeriesGlobal Groundwater Variability in the 21st Century: Observations, Expectations, and ForecastsDr. Matthew RodellNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterMonday, Februay
Several ESSIC/CISESS scientists have contributed to a new e-book published by Springer titled “Satellite Precipitation Measurement”.
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