Author: Travis Swaim

Ross Salawitch co-authored an article featured in the American Geophysical Union newsletter on Feb. 14th, 2012. The article brings up concerns over cuts in jobs at Environment Canada, a Canadian government research agency, and what the cuts will do to “the future of science and international agreements.” The full article can be read online here. Further links include a press release from Penn State University and a Eureka Alert….

The 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society met from January 22 to 26 in New Orleans. This year’s meeting gave attendees and presenters alike the opportunity to experience presentations, posters and symposiums on a variety of topics, including developments in air, climate and water models, as well as the chance to experience some of the attractions and culture that New Orleans had to offer. Not only did the meeting feature presentations, but it also had a career fair …

Images processed in-house by Wilfrid Schroeder were featured in a NASA Earth Observatory article, January 19. The first fire images were acquired by the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (NPP/VIIRS) and are the tip of the iceberg for the VIIRS fire algorithm development and validation activities.  The positive feedback was received from the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program managers as a …

Wilfrid Schroeder co-authored a review article published in Nature January 19 called “The Amazon Basin in transition,” providing a framework for understanding the linkages between natural variability, drivers of change, responses and feedbacks in the Amazon basin….

Research conducted by Ross Salawitch and Tim Canty with colleagues, and published in Geophysical Research Letters, November 3, 2010 was referred to in an article on sea ice and atmospheric chemistry in the December 5 edition of Chemical & Engineering News. …

Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in the January 17 edition of The Times of India in an article on an increasing level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) over Asia and on January 20 he was interviewed on Headline Today about the impact of La Nina on the record breaking cold in India. …

Sinead Farrell co-authored a paper on a new mean dynamic topography of the Arctic Ocean published in Geophysical Research Letters, January 6.  The manuscript was one of the five most popular GRL downloads for the week of January 17, 2012. The study, led by Farrell and co-authored by investigators from NOAA, NASA, and University College London, derives the highest resolution mapping of the Arctic Ocean mean sea surface possible constructed using 5.5 years of ICESat laser altimetry and …

Wendy Wang was a convener of “The Carbon Cycle on the Arid Land: Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activity” at the American Geophysical Union’s 2011 Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA.  She also gave a talk entitled “Isotope evidence for pedogenic carbonate enhancement on arid land of northwest China.”…