Tony Busalacchi has been appointed Chair, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC), the National Academies. The Board’s mission is to promote excellence in the atmospheric sciences, meteorology, and climate-related fields and to provide assistance to federal agencies, the science community, and the nation on these issues. …
Researcher: Junye Chen
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $100,331
Grant Study: “Minimizing the Impact of Changes in the Observing System on a New NASA Reanalysis to Advance the Understanding of Climate Change”
Researcher: Luis DeGoncalves
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $161,608
Grant Study: “The Data-Model Intercomparison Project for the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment of the Amazon”
Researcher: Michael Evans
Grant …
Tony Busalacchi and Phil Arkin were quoted in ClimateWire, July 28, in an article on the status of plans to create a National Climate Service that would provide longer-term forecasts and warnings related to climate change….
Researcher: Robert Adler
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount:$289,747
Grant Study: “Global Precipitation Variations and Extremes”
Researcher: Luis de Goncalves
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $199,862
Grant Study: “The Data-Model Intercomparison Project for the Large Scale biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment of the Amazon”
Researcher: James Farquhar
Grant Sponsor: NSF
Amount: $148,282
Grant Study: “RECOVERY: Sulfur Isotope Study of Phanerozoic Carbonate …
Wendy Wang gave a presentation entitled “Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics Under Long-Term Fertilizations In Arable Land of China” at the 3rd Expert Meeting on Soil C Data for the IPCC Database on Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors, held June 24-26, 2009 in Santiago, Chile….
Eugenia Kalnay has been awarded the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize, the World Meteorological Organization’s most prestigious prize, for her leadership in the field of global numerical weather prediction and analysis, including data assimilation and ensemble forecasting….
James Farquhar with collaborator Donald Canfield, published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 19, proposing that sediment mixing by bioturbating organisms resulted in a several-fold increase in seawater sulfate concentration. Nature News and Sindh Today (Asian News International) published follow-up articles….
Zhanqing Li was quoted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 11, in an article on critical thinking and China….
The University of Maryland will lead a new climate research partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), North Carolina State University and 16 other institutions. The nationwide consortium led by Maryland won a competition for a new NOAA-supported Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) that will receive up to $93 million in funding over the next five years, with approximately two-thirds of this funding expected to be managed by the Earth System …
Researcher: Phillip Arkin
Grant Sponsor: NOAA
Amount: $350,000
Grant Study: “Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS)”…
