Author: Travis Swaim

ESSIC associate research professor Ariana Sutton-Grier is the lead author of a new paper published in Sustainability titled “Investing in Natural and Nature-Based Infrastructure: Building Better Along Our Coasts.” The paper examines the need for green infrastructure on U.S. coasts to address issues such as flooding and erosion. It is Sutton-Grier’s first product of her participation in the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP)….

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) representatives and five well-known lightning scientists from across the globe recently gathered at CICS-MD for a three day meeting. The WMO recently added lightning to its list of essential climate variables, and this meeting sought to begin the process of defining what this means. ESSIC visiting assistant research scientist Scott Rudlosky and post-doctoral associate Michael Peterson facilitated the meeting, which included a visit to the NOAA Center …

ESSIC assistant research scientist Alexey Mishonov gave an ESSIC seminar on Jan. 29 in College Park to a group of about 20 NOAA and UMD scientists. His talk was entitled “Supporting the World Ocean Database (WOD): Archiving, Processing, and Analyzing in situ Ocean Data.” The WOD is the largest collection of quality-controlled ocean profile data available internationally. It is built by merging thousands of data sets submitted for archiving by individual researchers and scientific …

ESSIC hosted three meetings at the end of January: NASA-ESA Snow On Sea Ice (NESOSI), Program on Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) and Operation IceBridge (OIB).    The first Annual NESOSI meeting was held at ESSIC on Jan. 23. Both NASA and ESA collect snow on sea ice measurements and work to produce an accurate Arctic-wide snow pack for obtaining Arctic sea ice thickness and volume. The main goal of this meeting was to share progress on modeling snow on sea ice …

ESSIC associate professor Sujay Kaushal was featured on a WAMU piece about the impacts of salt application on roadways in the Washington, D.C. region. Kaushal discusses how road salt contaminated drinking water in his neighborhood in 2015. The segment also highlights his recent study on the increasing saltiness of American waterways, which gained media attention from news outlets across the country when it was published in early January. …