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A blog post titled “Why the Ocean Means So Much to Me” was recently posted to Sea Grant Maryland’s site by Daniel Teodoro, a Department of Geographical Sciences Ph.D. student advised by ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Research Professor Melissa Kenney and GEOG Associate Professor Christina Prell. The piece describes Teodoro’s personal connection to the ocean growing up on the Pacific Coast of El Salvador as well as his current endeavors to understand the complexities of the coastal ecosystem …

Last month, ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist Jeannette Wild presented at the Second Long-Term Ozone Trends and Their Uncertainties in the Stratosphere (LOTUS) Workshop as well as the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) Steering Committee Meeting at the WMO in Geneva, Switzerland. The LOTUS presentation, entitled “Extending the NOAA SBUV(/2) Ozone Profile Record”, focused on the nearly 40-year ozone Climate Data Record (CDR) – one of several …

ESSIC visiting assistant research scientist Beth Kuser Olsen is the newly elected Vice President of the University of Maryland’s chapter of Sigma Xi. Sigma Xi is an international and multidisciplinary honor society composed of science and engineering professionals dedicated to promoting excellence in scientific and engineering research.  The Society’s members include over 200 Nobel Prize recipients and many more have earned election to the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering.  …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently wrote an op-ed published in Newsweek titled “Global Human Population Isn’t Going To Explode—But That Doesn’t Mean We’re Safe”. The piece focuses on the current alarm surrounding the world’s rapid population growth, a phenomena warranting a steady call for population reduction in order to meet the emission targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Murtugudde surmises that overpopulation warnings ignore …

ESSIC visiting assistant research scientist Beth Kuser Olsen recently published an article in Human Ecology Review titled “The demographics of public participation access when communicating environmental risk”. In the piece, Kuser Olsen discusses the importance of public engagement in communicating anticipated changes and shifting risks concerning the environment and climate change.  She examines the demographics of flood risk management meeting participants in order to determine the …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently wrote an article published in Hindu Business Line titled “How air pollution is adding to India’s diabetes burden”. The article discusses a recent study that found a link between diabetes and PM2.5, atmospheric particulate matter (PM) with a diameter less than 2.5 micrometers.  Diabetes risk increased significantly beyond 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air and plateaued at 22 micrograms.  The measured air quality in Delhi and Kanpur …