Author: Travis Swaim

ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Bo-Wen Shen recently published two first-author Hurricane Sandy articles in the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation (ICEO) publication, Earthzine.  The first article discusses the performance of a developed parallel version of the ensemble empirical model decomposition (PEEMD) method with a three-level parallelism. The article is entitled, “Analyzing Tropical Waves using the Parallel Ensemble Empirical Model Decomposition Method: Preliminary Results from …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Ross Salawitch has been appointed a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).   According to the official AAAS announcement letter, Salawitch is being honored “for advancing our understanding of ozone chemistry and Earth’s climate through harmonized measurements and models”. Salawitch was nominated for fellowship by AOSC professor Russ Dickerson.  Dickerson stated that Salawitch’s appointment was “well deserved and earned through …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde has accepted a visiting professorial appointment within the Climate Studies office at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay).  The program is aimed at undertaking interdisciplinary, problem-driven research and teaching for end-to-end analysis of Climate Change problems….

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was featured in a LiveScience Op-ed post entitled, “Climate Change Needs an Elephant Whisperer.”  Murtugudde’s piece discusses climate communication and reaction, comparing each half of the human brain to both a fictional elephant and its rider….

NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, which aims to collect data on changes in polar ice in critical regions over a six-year span, is notable for its open, peer-review application process — anyone can apply to become a science team member for one of its two three-year segments. Although team members are elected for just three years in order to ensure fresh ideas and contributions to the mission, ESSIC researcher Sinead Farrell was recently appointed to a second term …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde attended a meeting entitled "Building 21st century scenarios for global oceanic ecosystems and fisheries.” The meeting was co-organized by the IMBER-CLIOTOP international program, the Eur-Oceans consortium, and the MACROES project.  It was held in UNESCO, Paris, France, 25-28 November 2013….

ESSIC Director and ConE Chair, Antonio Busalacchi was among the invited attendees at a signing of an MOU between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the State of Maryland.   The event which was hosted at the NASA / GSFC Visitor Center, also included participants Senator Barbara Mikulski, Governor Martin O’Malley and Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese.  It is hoped the agreement will attract high tech companies to Maryland that will be key in enabling both future …

Charon Birkett gave two live webinars this month as part of the NASA  Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program. The audiences were  primarily from Asia and South America and included local agency  officials, water resources managers, and students. The topic of interest  was remote sensing of surface waters. The webinars were given with the  aim of outreach, education and capacity building….

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was again selected as a science team member for the NASA Operation IceBridge mission. The selection marks Farrell’s second 3-year term as a mission team member. NASA’s Operation IceBridge images Earth’s polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the polar regions with the global climate system….