This annual report includes information on NOAA/CICS as well as a message of the director’s executive summary relating the basic ideas and goals behind CICS.
Includes details about CICS as well as highlights of their research from July 2009 through March 2010.
Report detailing main goals of ESSIC and its establishment as well as details about achievements from the past year and programs that ESSIC has been involved with.
Bottom line: Bright, clean, roomy and good pizza to boot.
I don’t usually do the pizza thing but I’d been eying this place for a while so decided to check it out. Glad I went – if ever I need a pizza fix, this is the place to get it. I had the 10″-“the works” pizza and nearly fell off my chair in shock when I bit into a piece of fresh rosemary embedded in the thin crust … you won’t find *that* anywhere near a pizza from Mama Lucia’s, I can assure you. Bottles of beer or mini-bottles of …
ESSIC hosted the second annual NOAA User Workshop on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Missions this year from November 29 to December 1, with about 60 participants from the government, private sectors, or academia. The three day meeting, co-sponsored by NESDIS/STAR and NWS/OHD, followed up on last year’s highly successful workshop and focused on user applications of GPM-era data and products. The Global Precipitations Measurement Mission is a joint mission with JAXA, the Japanese …
Raghu Murtugudde was mentioned in a Maryland Newsdesk article about his work in India and the recent trip taken by President Loh, Governor Martin O’Malley and other university representatives….
In just six days, university President Wallace Loh and a team of university officials visited eight Indian universities hoping to increase collaboration and create more opportunities abroad for students- and many said the trip was more successful than they had anticipated. Gov. Martin O’Malley led the 100-person delegation Loh traveled with last week to foster a more globally connected institution and increase both the university’s and the state’s relationship with India. Loh met with the …
Bottom line: Worth a second visit to try the fish soup; sandwiches are rather pricey for what you get, though. You have to admire anyone ready to take on the challenge of opening a restaurant in a part of town that once-upon-a-time, must’ve been some sort of quaint little town center but is now mainly residential. So hats off to the owner of Fishnet. It’s a new place in College Park off Route 1 with a small menu specialising in seafood sandwiches. I had the salmon sandwich (with a spicy …
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, better known as CICS, is made up of two distinct branches of the organization, one in Maryland and one in North Carolina. The Maryland branch operates out of the University of Maryland while the North Carolina branch operates from NC State, however, both feature collaboration from other university systems as well as climate organizations. The main role of CICS is to assist NOAA in efforts to use satellites and current Earth systems to gain …
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland recently announced the addition of a new undergraduate major to its curriculum. The focus of this major is on studies in meteorology, oceanography, climate and air pollution. Prospective students must take several required classes from these disciplines, including those pertaining to the atmosphere and the ocean, as well as several labs, seminars and research classes. For a while before the creation of this new …
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