Author: Travis Swaim

ESSIC / Geology professor James Farquhar is one of nine participants of a university sponsored pilot program seeking to improve campus researchers’ communication techniques. Leslie Felbain, the director of the MFA in Performance program in Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies will lead the program. Felbain will meet with participants and coach them through activities that improve persuasive speech, such as eye contact, tempo, and breathing techniques. Patrick O’Shea, …

Physics undergraduate and Faculty Research Assistant, Ms. Julia Ruth, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship in April 2014. The NSF received more than 14,000 applications for the 2014 competition and made 2,000 fellowship award offers that recognize outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Ms. Ruth plans to pursue her graduate degree at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego …

A unique education program was held on Capitol Hill the evening of March 25 —one that highlighted the link between Federal investment in Earth science and observations and the cha ching of the U.S. economy. As part of the Grains to Grapes program hosted by the Alliance for Earth Observations and Wine America, participants learned of the impacts of weather on the wine sector at home and abroad and the opportunities that exist for the U.S. agriculture and business sectors to utilize weather …

The attendees of the University of Maryland’s honors workshop HONR359C are not only studying the historic role humans have played in the formation and alteration of the earth’s climate and environment, but are also hoping to raise campus awareness. Entitled “Big History: Earth, Life, and Sustainability,” the workshop led by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde, has embarked on a class project which seeks to gather data on the average UMD student’s carbon footprint. Through the repurposing …

Researcher: James Farquhar Grant Sponsor: NSF Amount: $130,142 Grant Study: “Sulfur Isotope Studies of Sulfide Oxidation”  …

ESSIC Assistant Research Sinead Farrell was interviewed and appeared in the video “Global Warming: The Dangers of Melting Ice Caps,” produced by students of Eastern Middle School (Silver Spring). The video won second place in the middle school division of the C-Span StudentCam 2014 contest, an annual documentary competition.  This year’s theme was the following: “A Message to the U.S. Congress – What’s the most important issue the U.S. congress should consider in 2014?” To …