NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) recognized ESSIC assistant research scientist Augustin Vintzileos for the development and issuance of the experimental United States Week 3-4 Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks. In October Vintzileos presented research at the CPC’s 41st Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop in Maine….
ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was published in Huffington Post India about employment opportunities and complications encountered by climate science students in India. Murtugudde notes the lack of undergraduate programs for climate science and suggests the country set up a committee of experts and industries to look at the landscape for future employment opportunities in a world where climate variability is more evident and important. Murtugudde explains that climate …
ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde co-authored a study that found increased frequent exposure to “extreme heat events” increase hay fever among US adults. According to a UMD Right Now article, Murtugudde and others noted the timing, mainly in the spring, of these extreme heat events played a crucial role in increasing hay fever rates. Researchers hope this information will help scientists understand how projected heat extremes from climate change might influence allergic …
ESSIC assistant research scientist Linette Boisvert and post-doctoral associate Alek Petty recently published a paper that is making headlines at NASA. Their study found that during December 2015, a cyclone brought heat and humidity to a usually frigid and dry environment causing sea ice cover to thin and shrink when it grows thicker and stronger during that part of the year. Both Boisvert and Petty are quoted in the NASA article that was featured on the nasa.gov homepage. Boisvert also did …
ESSIC graduate research assistant Xiaoxu Tian and visiting research professor Xiaolei Zou authored two recently published studies. The first published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres focused on a modified retrieval algorithm using the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A). Tian and Zou looked at Hurricane Sandy and studied hurricane warm core structures with the modified algorithm. The second study …
A new study from scientists Jungbin Mok and Zhanqing Li, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) University of Maryland, and Nickolay Krotkov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is focusing on the impacts of brown carbon from biomass burning on ultraviolet (UV) radiation and atmospheric pollutants, which could lead to improved air quality models and help ameliorate potential health hazards such as suppression of the immune system and skin cancer. The paper is being released in
An Op-ed piece authored by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was published in the India edition of the Huffington Post. In the piece, Murtugudde praises the country’s decision and leadership in its signing of the Paris Agreement, but expresses concern regarding a lack of connection between climate change issues and national security. He explains that although climate change is never the root cause of civil or international unrest, it can ultimately become a flash point or a …
Dr. Kenney and Dr. Gerst will travel to Nashville for the INFORMS Annual Meeting, held from November 13-16. Dr. Kenney co-chairs the Decision Analysis Cluster, and she is also on the Decision Analysis Society Council.
Dr. Kenney will be chairing the session titled, “Environmental Decision Analysis” and co-chairing the “New Frontiers in Decision Analysis Practice and Theory” session. She will also present her talk titled, “The Process of …
ESSIC associate research scientist Sinead Farrell was elected secretary to the American Geophysical Union’s Cryosphere Focus Group. She will serve a two-year term beginning January 1 2017. In this year’s AGU elections, 21% of eligible members voted. Two of Farrell’s colleagues who she worked with on the NASA Operation IceBridge mission were also elected to leadership positions. …
ESSIC assistant research scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier was quoted in a recent Yale Environment 360 article about international blue carbon projects. The article focuses on increasing blue carbon projects in coastal areas while preserving local necessities. Sutton-Grier explained that carbon is priced differently across the world in terms of those nations who have placed value on it; less than $1 per ton in Mexico, but $137 per ton in Sweden. Sutton-Grier noted that higher prices …
