Author: Travis Swaim

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland recently announced the addition of a new undergraduate major to its curriculum.

The focus of this major is on studies in meteorology, oceanography, climate and air pollution.  Prospective students must take several required classes from these disciplines, including those pertaining to the atmosphere and the ocean, as well as several labs, seminars and research classes.

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Ross Salawitch is an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference in Atmospheric Chemistry, July 24-27, West Dover, VT….

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NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor

The University of Maryland, College Park, is a major public research university located on 1,250 acres of rolling land on the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. corridor. UM

Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for

Phil Arkin and Tom Smith co-organized and gave invited presentations in the Mini-symposium on “Mathematics and Statistics in Climate Data Reconstruction and Uncertainty Estimation,” Vancouver, BC the week of July 18th, 2011. The presentations were entitled “Validating Climate Model Simulations of 20th Century Precipitation” and “Statistical Reconstruction of Global Precipitation Since 1900” respectively….

Hugo Berbery has accepted the position of Associate Director for CICS-MD, the UMD component of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites. Berbery, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, has a long record of productive research on a number of topics, including regional hydroclimate variability, monsoon systems and land surface-atmosphere interactions, and is currently Co-chair of the International CLIVAR’s Variability of the American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) Panel….

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Tony Busalacchi chaired the panel that produced the report, “Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft:  A Workshop Report” published by The National Academies Press.  The report presents summaries of discussions at the above named workshop, which included sessions on the measurements and sensors originally planned for NPOESS and GOES-R; generation of climate data records; mitigation options, including the role of international partners; and cross-cutting …