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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.

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Ross Salawitch is an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference in Atmospheric Chemistry, July 24-27, West Dover, VT….

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NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor

Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for

The University of Maryland, College Park, is a major public research university located on 1,250 acres of rolling land on the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. corridor. UM

Phil Arkin and Tom Smith co-organized and gave invited presentations in the Mini-symposium on “Mathematics and Statistics in Climate Data Reconstruction and Uncertainty Estimation,” Vancouver, BC the week of July 18th, 2011. The presentations were entitled “Validating Climate Model Simulations of 20th Century Precipitation” and “Statistical Reconstruction of Global Precipitation Since 1900” respectively….

Hugo Berbery has accepted the position of Associate Director for CICS-MD, the UMD component of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites. Berbery, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, has a long record of productive research on a number of topics, including regional hydroclimate variability, monsoon systems and land surface-atmosphere interactions, and is currently Co-chair of the International CLIVAR’s Variability of the American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) Panel….

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Researcher: Sinead Farrell
Grant Sponsor: NASA-GSFC
Amount: $195,276
Grant Study: “Profiling the Arctic Ocean: Investigating Changes in Sea Ice Freeboard and Dynamic Topography with Satellite Altimetry”
This is an increase in funding to a March 2010 award.

Researcher: Xin-Zhong Liang
Colorado State University
Amount: $176,583
Grant Study: “Integrated Bioclimatic-Dynamic Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural and Invasive Plant Distributions in the United States”…