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Bottom line: If you like buffets, you’ll like Sakura. Thought I’d greet the Year of the Dragon at Sakura, the newest  Chinese-American buffet place in College Park. Food-wise, there’s quite  a large selection of the usual buffet staples (are frog legs standard  fare?) and sushi and hibachi stations are located at the back of the restaurant. I’m no big fan of these buffet places but I saw one Asian fellow there going back for thirds (!!) so the food must be all right. My meal (including a …

If you’ve ever been to an ESSIC Maryland Day exhibit, you may have seen the illuminated globe with weather and climate images moving across its surface.  But it’s no ordinary globe.  In fact, it’s called the Magic Planet, and it is essentially a smaller, more portable version of NOAA’s Science on a Sphere.

NOAA developed Science on a Sphere as an educational tool, creating “a room sized, global display system that uses computers and video …

A total of 28 ESSIC scientists participated in the 92nd Annual AMS meeting this year in New Orleans, LA. The central theme of the 2012 AMS Annual Meeting is “technology and its profound impacts on research, operations, the business of our environmental sciences, and the public,” according to the AMS website. ESSIC scientists have submitted papers, posters, or presentations or served as a chair for the meeting. …

Bottom line: Good eats – would be a decent summertime, relaxing-on-the-outdoor-patio happy hour hang-out.

If you want to mellow out with some cool reggae and even cooler Red Stripe beer, like that “old-farmhouse-squeaky-floor-dilapidated-yet-clean-enough” look, and are not disturbed by the colour orange, you’ll enjoy the Pit. Food’s good… not extraordinary but the oxtail stew was interesting. Liked the crust of spices on the (tender) pork I ordered (and the chicken I sampled/grabbed from the …

Volume 1 / Issue 3

Issue III of the newsletter containing helpful tips regarding the information technology infrastructure at ESSIC.

-Phishing identification and protection
-Rogue security software information
-What to do with an infected computer
-Spyware and it’s prevention

Researchers: Charon Birkett, Brian Beckley, Tom Feroli, Curt Reynolds

Here, we report on the overall performance and contribution of the Poseidon-3 radar altimeter IGDR data set, in terms of overall product quality and quantity. We also present the first ENVISAT products and demonstrate how the Jason-2/OSTM and ICESat-1 data sets are being used as relative validation sources.

Presented: NRT Splinter Session, 2011 Jason-2/OSTM meeting, San Diego, USA

Researchers: Charon M. Birkett, Curt Reynolds, Brian Beckley, Thomas Feroli, Christa Peters-Lidard, Yuanjie Li