ESSIC Director and ConE Chair, Professor Antonio Busalacchi was quoted in a recent “Spoon University” feature on champagne’s past, present, and future. The article addressed the popular year-end celebratory wine and how climate change may eventually alter its storied heritage. For further information: Bubbly Bliss: Champagne Past, Present and Future…
Assistant Research Engineer Soni Yatheendradas is first author on a newly accepted doi article in Hydrological Processes 26, entitled “Comment on ‘Shang S. 2012. Calculating actual crop evapotranspiration under soil water stress conditions with appropriate numerical methods and time step.” …
ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was an invited distinguished scientist by the Government of India Department of Science and Technology to speak at the Innovation in Science – Pursuit of Inspired Research (INSPIRE) conference. The two-day meeting was held in Shimoga, India in December, 2013….
ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde, convened a Town Hall Meeting at the December 2013 AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA., entitled “Opportunities in Earth System Science in India.” The Town Hall meeting attracted over 100 participants to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Earth System Science research and education in India. (A follow up meeting will be held in India in 2014.) Participants included the directors of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, the Indian …
ESSIC / GEOL Assistant Professor Sujay Kaushal was interviewed on Northeast Public Radio regarding his August 2013 study on how acid rain is making NorthEast U.S. rivers and streams less acidic. Kaushal’s interview and an accompanying article on his study are available at the WAMC web-site. http://wamc.org/post/dr-sujay-kaushal-university-maryland-acid-rain-and-alkaline-rivers …
ESSIC / GEOL Professor James Farquhar will receive the 2014 Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry. The award, which in 2014 is named after Samuel Epstein, is bestowed upon scientists who have recently made a particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry. The geochemical research must be highly original and contribute in a significant fashion to our understanding of the natural behavior of the Earth or planets. Such a contribution must be in …
ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Bo-Wen Shen was published in an early online version of the AMS Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Shen’s paper is entitled, “Nonlinear Feedback in a Five-dimensional Lorenz Model.” In the study, the original 3-dimensional Lorenz Model (3DLM) is generalized with two additional modes (5DLM) to examine their role in the predictability of the numerical solutions and to understand the underlying processes that increase the solution stability….
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead L. Farrell attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 9-13 Dec., 2013, in San Francisco, CA. Farrell delivered an invited presentation entitled: “A Decade of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Change from Airborne and Satellite altimetry”. Farrell delivered updates on behalf of the NASA Operation IceBridge Sea Ice Science Team, at the NASA Operation IceBridgeTown Hall Meeting. Farrell co-chaired three sessions on “Monitoring Changes in Polar Ice …
Alphabetical listing by author of Faculty and Research Staff paper and journal publications for 2013.
Researcher: Robert Adler, Guojun Gu and Yudong Tian Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $150,000 in additional funding bringing the total amount to $846,360 Grant study: “Uncertainties in Global and Regional Precipitation Using the GPCP and TMPA Data Sets”…