Author: Travis Swaim

Guten Tag! On Friday, October 12th, ESSIC faculty and staff may find themselves transported to to a “virtual Munich.” In the spirit of the famous 16-day Bavarian autumnal festival,  the Center will host an Oktoberfest-themed TGIF, featuring soft-pretzels, bratwurst, and a special “beverage”. Time: 3:00 – 5:00+ (Note: To accommodate those that will be attending Marcia McNutt’s seminar, this will be an extended “ESSctoberfest” before and beyond normal TGIF hours.) Oktoberfest is …

It seems as though construction has been going on all over M-Square and the University of Maryland this year. The school has been ambitiously renovating North Campus and the research park throughout the summer, and due to weather and funding some of the construction has taken a bit longer then expected.

North Campus construction, which is redesigning the North Campus Denton community quad and pathways to and from the dorms to the education buildings, began early this summer. The work was

The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) held its biannual executive board meeting October 1, 2012 to discuss the current status of the institute and to begin preparations for its scheduled review in November of this year. The executive board, which consists of senior scientists and managers, provides potential advice and feedback to the institute directors, with respect to both current activities and future direction. The meeting was chaired by CICS Executive Director Dr. …

Lights, camera, action!  ESSIC’s very own Assistant Director Andy Negri is performing in a local production of the play “Incorruptible,” at the Greenbelt Arts Center. The show, which opened September 21, combines slapstick humor, medieval farce, and religious faith into the story of a group of monks living in a monastery in Priseaux, France, in 1250 A.D. Negri says he thoroughly enjoyed developing his role as Brother Martin for the production. “He [Brother Martin] is a lot like me,” said …

Chris Kidd gave the plenary presentation entitled Measuring Global Precipitation: Present and Future Challenges at the 2012 European Meteorological Satellite (EUMETSAT) conference in Sopot, Poland, September 3-7. Kidd also chaired the conference session on precipitation and presented a paper The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission: Hydrological Applications….

Robert Adler gave the keynote address in a session on Hydrological Modeling and Land Surface Processes at the 2012 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference in Sopot, Poland, September 3-7. The talk was entitled: “Global flood estimation using satellite precipitation observations and hydrological models”….

The UMD Council on the Environment held a student reception this Thursday for its $10,000 Green Fund Fellowship where students mixed, mingled, and exchanged ideas for proposals on how to improve the environment.

The ConE Green Fund Fellowship for Collaborative Research on the Environment gives graduate students at the University of Maryland an opportunity to meet students in other disciplines with an interest in the environment and pair up in order to create a proposal to be presented to the

Researchers have been awarded a $700,000 competitive grant at the University of Maryland to develop a community-based plan for improving the Chesapeake Bay’s fastest growing source of pollution- storm water runoff. The grant, awarded to researchers from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is a coveted opportunity from the EPA for researchers to develop a strategic plan to improve pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and its local rivers including the Anacostia and Patuxent. The …