Newly Funded Research: April 2010
April 1, 2010
Researcher: Ross Salawitch
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $110,789
Grant Study: “Impact of Bromine on Ozone.”…
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Newly Funded Research: March 2010
March 1, 2010
Researcher: Sinead Farrell (ESSIC)
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Stennis Space Center
Amount: $105,511
Grant Study: “Profiling the Arctic Ocean: Investigating Changes in Sea Ice Freeboard and Dynamic Topography with Satellite Altimetry.”…
Murtugudde gives talk at AGU-ALSO-TOS Ocean Sciences meeting
February 25, 2010
Raghu Murtugudde gave an invited talk at the AGU-ALSO-TOS Ocean Sciences meeting, February 25, Portland, OR with a topic of “Personalized, Preventive, Preemptive Health Forecasts.” He presented a talk on NOAA’s Role for Monitoring Predicting Human Health at the American Meteorological Society’s 90th Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, GA, January 17-21, in a session opened by Jane Lubchenko, the NOAA Administrator….
Dickerson quotes in the Washington Post
February 10, 2010
Russell Dickerson was quoted in the Washington Post, February 10, in an article on snow cream desserts, explaining that the first few inches of falling snow capture most of the pollutants in the air, and any snow falling after that should be clean….
Zeng travels to Antarctica with research associate
February 1, 2010
Ning Zeng with research associate Jay Gregg (2009 Ph.D. Geography), traveled to King George Island, Antarctica in an activity related to the International Polar Years. They studied ancient carbon that was once buried under ice, and is now decomposing and going into the atmosphere as CO2 as glaciers retreat. Such processes have been hypothesized to be a ‘missing link’ in the glacial-interglacial cycles, and may also have implication for future climate change….
Newly Funded Research: February 2010
February 1, 2010
Researcher: Luis DeGoncalves (ESSIC)
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $105,873
Grant Study: “Integrating NASA Earth Sciences Research Results into Decision Support Systems for Agriculture and Water Management in South America.”…
Li quoted in Nature Magazine
January 29, 2010
Zhanqing Li was quoted in Nature, January 29, in an article on China’s plan that promises top salaries and funding to returning elite researchers….
Murtugudde featured in DNA India
January 14, 2010
Raghu Murtugudde was featured in DNA India, January 14, with the topic of conserving natural resources and sustainability. He also wrote a guest editorial entitled, “A Regional Earth System Perspective for India,” which appeared in the Journal of the Indian Institute for Science, October-December 2010 issue….
Zhang and Dickerson publish article in Geophysical Research Letters
January 1, 2010
Da-Lin Zhang and Russ Dickerson with postdoc Yi-Xuan Shou, published an article in Geophysical Research Letters, December 19, on their study showing that hot air blowing from Columbia, MD and Washington, DC may make Baltimore hotter during heat waves. Follow-up articles appeared in Nature, December 24 and the Baltimore Sun….
Zeng interviewed by PBS Newshour
December 1, 2009
Ning Zeng was interviewed by PBS Newshour/TheNews for an educational program on climate impacts of El Nino: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/….
