Author: Travis Swaim

The NOAA building at M-Square is now home to a café, a convenient spot for employees to enjoy lunch during the week. Open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., the NOAA Café offers a variety of choices. Breakfast is offered in the mornings and for lunch there is a selection of sandwiches and salads along with a daily lunch special. The café is vegetarian friendly as it offers a variety of veggie burgers and sandwiches with your choice of toppings. There is also a selection of classic …

Ragu Murtugudde  was an invited speaker at CSIR-CMMACS on May 17 and 20 speaking on ‘Dynamic-Thermodynamic Coupling and Ecosystem-Biogeochemical Response’ and ‘Do we understand ENSO?’  He also talked about ‘Do we understand ENSO’ at IISC, Bangalore on May 22, at CESS, Kerala on May 27,and at IITM-Pune on May 30. He gave a public lecture on ‘Climate Change Needs an Elephant Whisperer’ in Kerala on May 28….

Xiujun (Wendy) Wang  was elected President of the Biogeosciences section of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) at the Annual Meeting, 24-28 June, Brisbane, Australia. Established in 2006, AOGS promotes geophysical science for the benefit of humanity in Asia and Oceania….

Zhanqing Li was an invited speaker at the 12th East Asian Climate (EAC) Workshop – East Asian Climate: New Perspectives and Challenges, July 1-3, Busan, Korea.  In May, Li gave invited talks at the Meeting of Americas, Cancun, Mexico, on “Variable influences of aerosols on cloud, precipitation and radiation budgets” and “The impact of aerosols on the climate and its changes in China.”…

Jingfeng Huang’s seminar presentation at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, “S-NPP VIIRS Aerosol Products: Algorithm, Validation, Data Use and Future Work,” was awarded ‘The Best Presentation of the AEROCENTER 2012-2013 Seminar Season’. For more information….

An unassuming-looking rod on a rooftop in Beltsville, Md., connected with wires to specialized computer equipment in the building below, is helping scientists pinpoint the location of lightning as it flashes during a thunderstorm. Working in tandem with nine other identical devices installed throughout the Washington, D.C., area, these sensors promise to help usher in a new era of severe weather prediction. Called the Washington D.C. Lightning Mapping Array (DC LMA), the devices detect, in …

There’s a big difference — $700 million — between how much money the Senate Appropriations Committee wants to allocate for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and how much the House Appropriations Committee is willing to spend. But there’s one big bipartisan element that both House and Senate appropriators agree on, and that’s the need for NOAA to spend a big chunk of its budget on improving weather forecasting. The Senate version of the bill, which passed through full …

ESSIC Director, Professor Antonio Busalacchi, welcomed "weather campers" from Howard University's NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences' (NCAS) to the center this week. The NCAS camp offers rising high school juniors and seniors first hand exposure to educational and career opportunities in atmospheric sciences. NOAA's Dr. Scott Rudlosky, an ESSIC visiting assistant scientist, collaborated with NOAA's outreach office to bring the campers to ESSIC for the …