Author: Travis Swaim

By: Elena A. Yegorova

So you’ve finished all your thesis research and got the final go-ahead from your advisor to look for a job? Or maybe you are a graduate student wondering what awaits you once you defend your thesis?

 The good news is that there is a sea of opportunities open to you with a Ph.D. in Atmospheric or Oceanic Sciences.  So where to start?  You definitely start with the people closest to you – your thesis advisors, graduated friends, friends of friends, etc. These are

Please welcome the following new appointments to ESSIC:

• Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Matt Sapiano
• Faculty Research Assistant Zhengpeng Li

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Imagine this on the corner of Route 1 and Paint Branch (e.g. slide 3, Rte. 1 southbound cutting across, north campus entrance on bottom right): http://collegepark.patch.com/articles/visuals-east-campus-phases#pdf-9360973  …

ESSIC CMS Primer & Roadmap

* Suggested points of interest when visiting the site:   I. News Highlights: Quick "blurbs" about Faculty, events, and items of interest.    a.) Menu Heading: Available from the main site menu as ("News") b.) Quick Link:  http://essic.umd.edu/news c.) Additional Info: The 30 most recent "Highlights" are a scrolled  tab item under "Latest News" …

A truly startling (to me) number of people are described as, or call themselves, “climate scientists” these days – Wikipedia has a list of them, which includes no one that I would argue with but omits a very large number of those who clearly are practicing climate scientists (no one at ESSIC is on it, for example, even though just about everything we do could be so called).  While programs in Climate Science have begun to appear, this is not a field like physics, in which only those with

The Education Office at Maryland Public Television (MPT) is working with the Maryland Department of Education to create online student activities (grades 6 – 12) for literacy in Science, Social Studies and English, funded under the Federal “Race to the Top” initiative. One of the science activities for 6th – 8th graders is to look at several resources about the Chesapeake Bay’s Smith Island and then write an argument piece based on claims and evidence they have reviewed. A significant …

Monday, 20 February 2012

University of Maryland’s Earth System Science  Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) will be hosting a workshop on Feb. 21/22  focused on the Chesapeake Bay.  The workshop will be jointly sponsored by the NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) and by the University  of Maryland Initiative: Climate Change Responding to User Needs (CIRUN).

The goal of the workshops is to identify how climate and environmental science can provide improved information support for decisions and

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center researcher Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang, also a professor in the CMNS-Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Department, released a regional climate model Fe. 17 called the Climate-Weather Research Forecasting Model (CWRF), a significant extension of the original Weather Research Forecasting Model (WRF).  The model has been ten years in the making by Dr. Liang’s team in collaboration with NOAA and NCAR, and facilitates the use of an

Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in the article titled `Brain Gain’, the cover story of the EDU Tech Magazine March 2012 issue.  The March 12 issue can be viewed on-line at EDU Tech’s web-site here. The pdf of the feature article can be downloaded below….