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Jim Carton was quoted in Voice of America, September 16, in a story on global warming and extreme weather….

Ning Zeng organized a workshop on “Ecological Carbon Sequestration via Wood Burial and Storage: A Strategy for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation,” September 9-10, at the Heinz Center, Washington, DC. The workshop, supported by DOE and attended by representatives from ORNL, PNNL, the World Bank, UMD, JHU and several NGOs, scrutinized an emerging strategy of carbon sequestration for climate mitigation….

Zhanqing Li gave two invited talks in the plenary sessions of two international conferences: the Asian-Pacific Radiation Symposium in Seoul, Korea, August 24-27; and the International Conference on Dust/Aerosol and Impact on Climate, Shanghai, China, August 9-13. The titles of his talks were “How Much Can Environmental Changes Affect Regional Climate?” and “An Overview of the ARM/AMF and EAST-AIRE Experiments”…

Ralph Ferraro  hosted the 1st NOAA User Workshop on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission at the M-Square Research Complex in College Park, MD on August 18-19. The two-day meeting, attended by approximately 50 scientists from NOAA and NASA, developed observational requirements for precipitation measurements at NOAA, and strategies to accelerate the use of GPM data at NOAA after the satellite is launched by NASA in 2013….

Dalia Kirschbaum was interviewed for the water-focused journalism website, Circle of Blue Water, August 11, on a landslide hazard forecasting tool being developed by NASA, whereby researchers are compiling a database of rainfall-induced landslides in order to test a mathematical model predicting where landslides could occur….

Researcher: Maria Tzortziou
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $103,083
Grant Study: “Spatial and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric NO2 and Other Trace Gases and Aerosols over Eastern US Coastal Regions: Applications to Remote Sensing Observations and Studies of Nitrogen Deposition.”

Researcher: Ning Zeng
Grant Sponsor: NOAA
Amount: $130,000
Grant Study: “Seasonal Prediction for Ecosystems and Carbon Cycle Using NCEP/CFS and a Dynamic Vegetation Model.”…

Bo-Wen Shen was featured in NASA News reporting on the study by Shen, with NASA and NOAA colleagues W.-K. Tao, W. K. Lau and R. Atlas, published recently online in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres,1524415244 on employing NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer and atmospheric data to simulate tropical cyclone Nargis, which devastated Myanmar in 2008. The result is the first model to replicate the formation of the tropical cyclone five days in advance. Follow-up stories appeared in …

Researcher: Phil Arkin
Grant Sponsor: NSF
Amount: $233,450
Grant Study: “Collaborative Research: Changes of the Global Precipitation Characteristics Since 1900 from Observations, Analysis with Uncertainty Estimates.”…

Wendy Wang was a Committee Member for the 2nd International Workshop on Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Mitigation in Agriculture held in Beijing, China, June 27-30. She also co-chaired the Soil Carbon Cycle Modeling session, and gave a presentation entitled “Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of CO2 Concentration and Efflux in [a] Cotton Field of Northwestern China.”…