ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Augustin Vintzileos was a presenter at the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. Vintzileos's talk was entitled “Enhancing Resilience to Heat Extremes: Forecasting Excessive Heat Events at Subseasonal Lead Times (Week-2 to 4).”…
ESSIC / AOSC professor Raghu Murtugudde was recently published in Huffington-In, the Indian edition of the Huffington Post. The article titled “Should Young Researchers be Paranoid about Their Ideas Being Stolen” discusses plagiarism in the scientific community and offers advice to young scientists. …
ESSIC Assistant research scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier is the co-lead author of a new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The paper entitled “Clarifying the role of coastal and marine systems in climate mitigation,” delves into mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows, and the ways in which these wetland ecosystems can act as climate buffers. Sutton-Grier, who is also an ecosystem science adviser for the National Ocean Service (NOS) at …
A new Op-ed piece authored by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was recently featured in the Indian edition of the Huffington Post. The article is titled “Why Rural India Suffers Worse Heatwaves than Urban Centres” and delves into how temperatures in India often drop when moving from rural to urban areas. …
ESSIC research assistant professor Melissa Kenney was featured in the “President’s Letter” of the latest INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) newsletter, Decision Analysis Today. Authored by incumbent DAS President Jason Merrick, the article noted some of Kenney’s climate change research activities, including her work on the link between natural and social processes and how a better understanding can aid decision making. The DAS is a society dedicated to improving …
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier will speak at the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) meeting held in Washington, D.C., January 24 – 26, 2017. Sutton-Grier will provide introductory comments for her self-organized “Symposia A” segment entitled “Disasters, Degraded Ecosystem Services, and Human Health.” She will also address the meetings second session “Symposia C” segment entitled “Environmental and Health Consequences of …
“Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of satellites whizzing around Earth collecting mountains of data makes such constant and wide-ranging access to accurate weather forecasts possible. Just one satellite, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R that launched in 2016, …
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ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was the author of two recently published Op-ed pieces in the Indian edition of the Huffington Post. The first article titled “Wait, Don't Push that Button If You Want To Slow Down Global Warming” suggests avoiding measures which attempt to reign in consumerism and instead seek out carbon-neutral energy sources and design new consumer products to use them. The second article titled The Carbon-Neutral Sapiens: Are We Poised …
ESSIC research assistant professor Melissa Kenney is a co-author of a paper recognized by the decision analysis community. The paper titled “Partition Dependence and Carryover Biases in Subjective Probability Assessment Surveys for Continuous Variables: Model-Based Estimation and Correction” was chosen as a runner up for the Decision Analysis Special Recognition Award for papers published in 2016. The paper was also acknowledged as an INFORMS Decision Analysis …
