ESSIC Hosts Nobel Prize Award Winner John Mather in Seminar Series
February 24, 2020
On March 2, 2020, ESSIC will be welcoming Dr. John Mather, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, as a speaker in the Spring 2020
Author: Cazzy Medley
Coral Reef Watch Products Identify High Heat Stress Capable of Causing Widespread Coral Bleaching Along the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
February 24, 2020
NOAA Coral Reef Watch’s (CRW) daily global 5km satellite coral bleaching heat stress products indicate high oceanic heat stress is present along the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia, and is expected to remain through March.
Congratulations to Eugenia Kalnay, Recipient of Roger Revelle Medal
February 19, 2020
Distinguished University of Maryland professor Eugenia Kalnay recently received the Roger Revelle Medal at the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.
Vogel Presents on Using Oceanographic Satellite Data in K-12
February 17, 2020
Ron Vogel, ESSIC / CISESS Senior Faculty Specialist, gave a lecture at the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education Annual Conference, a conference for K-12 environmental science teachers to explore using oceanographic satellite data in K-12 classrooms. This area has traditionally seen satellite data as too complex for teaching about the environment.
American Meteorological Society Awards Tianning Su
February 6, 2020
ESSIC/CISESS Graduate Student Tianning Su was selected for a speaking award at the recent American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. He received the award from the judges at the 24th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS). His talk was entitled, “Retrieving Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals over Land by Constructing the Relationship of Spectral Surface Reflectances through Deep Learning: Application in Himawari-8.”
ESSIC/CISESS at the AMS Annual Meeting
February 3, 2020
The American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held last week, January 12 to 16, in Boston. There were significant contributions by ESSIC/CISESS scientists, documented here.
Salawitch Talks Climate Change at Pennsylvania Elementary/Middle School
January 27, 2020
ESSIC Scientist Ross Salawitch recently visited Montgomery School in Chester Springs to speak to seventh and eighth grade students about climate change.
Coral Reef Watch Co-Authors Paper Showing There Is Little Relief in the Deep for Heat-Stressed Corals
January 24, 2020
Staff from NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW), an initiative supported by the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)-administered Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), just co-authored a new publication on heat stressed coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean.
Meyers, Robinson Credited with Most Cited Paper in Journal in Past 4 Years
January 22, 2020
A paper co-written by Viviana Maggioni from George Mason University as well as ESSIC/CISESS Senior Faculty Specialist Patrick Meyers and past ESSIC/CISESS intern Monique Robinson is the Journal of Hydrometeorology’s most cited paper published in the past 4 years.
Are We Losing a Key Climate Change Buffer?
January 14, 2020
An international team led by researchers at the University of Maryland and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has created the most high-resolution maps to date showing changes in the pH of seawater since the Industrial Revolution began. Their study, published in the December 9, 2019 issue of the journal Nature Scientific Reports, suggests that the ocean’s capacity to continue absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is diminishing.
