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ESSIC Director and AOSC Chair Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm was a source of expertise for an article posted on Herald Mail Media titled, “Torrential rain in 2018 gives Hagerstown wettest September on record and fifth highest annual precipitation”. The article discusses the excessive rainfall experienced in Hagerstown, Maryland this year and describes the struggles of local farmers and residents as they continue to deal with flooding.  Miralles-Wilhelm commented that the extreme weather …

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 …