Soil Moisture and Runoff Forecasts from the Climate Forecast System Version 2
March 27, 2012
Researchers: Li-Chuan Chen, Kingtse Mo, and Ming-Ying Lee
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Seasonal Drought Prediction over the United States
March 27, 2012
Researchers: Li-Chuan Chen and Kingtse Mo
Poster presented at the 2011 WCRP Open Science Conference in Denver, CO organized by the World Meteorological Organization.
Ready, Set, Go! The Post-Doc Search is On
March 27, 2012
By: Elena A. Yegorova
So you’ve finished all your thesis research and got the final go-ahead from your advisor to look for a job? Or maybe you are a graduate student wondering what awaits you once you defend your thesis?
The good news is that there is a sea of opportunities open to you with a Ph.D. in Atmospheric or Oceanic Sciences. So where to start? You definitely start with the people closest to you – your thesis advisors, graduated friends, friends of friends, etc. These are
Newly Appointed: Matt Sapiano, Zhengpeng Li
March 27, 2012
Please welcome the following new appointments to ESSIC:
- Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Matt Sapiano
- Faculty Research Assistant Zhengpeng Li
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Farquhar co-authors study published in Nature Geoscience
March 22, 2012
Professor James Farquhar co-authored a study published in Nature Geosciences March 18th entitled, "A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth." The study focuses on how the Earth's early atmosphere periodically cycled between hazy and sunny in a way that would have had a profound effect on the climate of the young planet. "A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth" Aubrey Zerkle, Mark Claire, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, …
East Campus development
March 20, 2012
Imagine this on the corner of Route 1 and Paint Branch (e.g. slide 3, Rte. 1 southbound cutting across, north campus entrance on bottom right): http://collegepark.patch.com/articles/visuals-east-campus-phases#pdf-9360973 …
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ESSIC CMS Primer & Roadmap
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What is Climate?
March 16, 2012
A truly startling (to me) number of people are described as, or call themselves, “climate scientists” these days – Wikipedia has a list of them, which includes no one that I would argue with but omits a very large number of those who clearly are practicing climate scientists (no one at ESSIC is on it, for example, even though just about everything we do could be so called). While programs in Climate Science have begun to appear, this is not a field like physics, in which only those with
Murtugudde to be interviewed for educational program involving the Bay’s Smith Island
March 16, 2012
The Education Office at Maryland Public Television (MPT) is working with the Maryland Department of Education to create online student activities (grades 6 – 12) for literacy in Science, Social Studies and English, funded under the Federal “Race to the Top” initiative. One of the science activities for 6th – 8th graders is to look at several resources about the Chesapeake Bay’s Smith Island and then write an argument piece based on claims and evidence they have reviewed. A significant …
University of Maryland ESSIC Hosts Chesapeake Bay & Puget Sound Health Workshops: Integrating Climate and Environmental Information with Disease Surveillance to Address Pathogens and Algal Toxins of Concern to Public Health
March 15, 2012
Monday, 20 February 2012
University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) will be hosting a workshop on Feb. 21/22 focused on the Chesapeake Bay. The workshop will be jointly sponsored by the NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) and by the University of Maryland Initiative: Climate Change Responding to User Needs (CIRUN).
The goal of the workshops is to identify how climate and environmental science can provide improved information support for decisions and
