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Steve Halperin has been appointed Director of the university’s initiative on Climate Information: Responding to User Needs (CIRUN). This initiative is intended to build links between the user community and scientists from a wide range of disciplines, to provide actionable information about future environmental change.
  (Related: See the “Featured-@-ESSIC” article on the Halperin appointment here.)…

Ross Salawitch was quoted in a CBC-Canada article on Canada’s decision to shut down 17 ozone monitoring stations and the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre which will create a gap in international data needed to monitor the ozone layer….

Maria Tzortziou was interviewed for a feature article that appeared under NASA’s “Latest Earth Science News and Features,” focusing on NASA’s future satellite mission Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) and the Chesapeake Bay Oceanographic campaign with Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality (DISCOVER AQ) in the Chesapeake Bay during summer 2011. Dr. Tzortziou and Dr. Antonio Mannino …

Raghu Murtugudde was the Institute Colloquium Speaker at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, August 3, where he spoke on Predictions to Solutions: Role of S&T in Facing Climate Challenges. Murtugudde also gave the Professor Karunakaran Endowment Lecture at the Center for Earth Science Studies in Kerala entitled Big History: Earth, Life, and History. A mango sapling was planted with his name to commemorate his lecture….

Raghu Murtugudde has been invited to give a lecture entitled “The Role of Technology in facing Climate Change” at the Institute Colloquium, IIT Bombay on August 3, 2011….