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Wellness and Sustainability Tips are selected from the UMD “FYI” Listserv system. The “FYI” Listserv provides general announcements and information on programs of particular interest to the faculty and staff of the University of Maryland. I. Wellness

• Beat the heat

“Prevent illness by avoiding excessive heat during summer heat waves. Be aware of the weather forecast, and try to plan any potentially strenuous outdoor activities around the temperatures. Do yard work in the early morning. Go …

Publication – Science Daily
Date: 07/31/12 “Air Pollution Worsening Worldwide: Cut Emissions Further, Experts Urge” Most of the world’s population will be subject to degraded air quality in 2050 if human-made emissions continue as usual, according to Science Daily. If continuation does occur, the average world citizen will experience similar air pollution to that of today’s average East Asian citizen. These conclusions are those of a study published August 1 in Atmospheric Chemistry and …

Stephanie Schollaert Uz, ESSIC faculty research assistant, and Argyro Kavvada, AOSC graduate student, have been working with the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore to implement weather and climate topics currently in the news into its Science-on-a-Sphere. The sphere is a large visualization system that uses computers and video projectors to display animated data onto its outside surface. Their work is part of a multi-institution NOAA-funded project entitled ‘EarthNow’, which produces a …

Dr. Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC and AOSC Professor, was an invited speaker on July 30 at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Regional Downscaling-Optimal Physics and Applications. He was also an invited speaker on July 31 at CalTech University on the topic of “From Big Bang to the Co-Operative Species.” …

Researcher: Christopher Hain Grant-Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $112,096 Grant-Study: “Development of a Multi-Scale Remote-Sensing Based Framework for Mapping Drought Over North America.”   Researcher: Da-Lin Zhang Grant-Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $149,576 Grant-Study: “On the Multiple Intensity Changes of Hurricane Earl (2010) and HS3 Storms.”  …

Wellness and Sustainability Tips are selected from the UMD “FYI” Listserv system. The “FYI” Listserv provides general announcements and information on programs of particular interest to the faculty and staff of the University of Maryland. I. Wellness

• Savor your vacation

  “According to extensive research, people who take advantage of vacation time are significantly less likely to suffer coronary heart disease or heart attacks than those who do not. Vacations can help combat the …

Publication – Environmental News Network
Date: July 24, 2012 “End of the last Ice Age – Close linkage between CO2 and temperature found” The shift from the ice age to the warm interglacial period was the most significant climate change the world has seen in the last 100,000 years, according to ENN. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the rise in the atmospheric CO2 follow each …