Tony Busalacchi is one of seven Maryland residents named to participate in a major study on climate change by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. The congressionally mandated study, America’s Climate Choices, will investigate the serious, sweeping issues relating to global climate change and make recommendations regarding strategies that must be adopted in response….
Phil Arkin was quoted in The DC Examiner, December 12, in an article on January’s Inauguration Day and the weather. …
ESSIC has received an award of $50,000 from the Green Fund to establish a graduate fellowship endowment in global climate change. Administered jointly by the departments of Geology and Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, the fellowship is awarded to students working with faculty associated with ESSIC. …
Experts from the insurance industry, the federal government and academe will discuss a strategy for devising new forecast models and describe their potential impact on insurance in both the public and private sectors….
Tony Busalacchi was quoted in the Washington Post, October 3, in an article on penguins floating ashore in Brazil and changes in the ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere. …
ESSIC hosted the 4th Annual NOAA Climate Test Bed (CTB) Science Advisory Board (SAB) meeting on September 11-12th. CTB was formed to accelerate the transfer of research and development into improved NOAA operational climate forecasts, products, and applications and serve as a conduit between the operational, academic and research communities….
Researcher: Da-Lin Zhang
Grant Sponsor: NSF
Amount: $158,506
Grant Study: “Improving Understanding and prediction of Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis”…
Ning Zeng was mentioned in Spiegel, August 28 in an article on converting carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant into cement, thereby rendering the gas harmless. Zeng was also quoted in the San Diego Union Tribune, August 28 in an article on synthetic trees sucking up carbon dioxide….
Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in the Baltimore Sun, July 16 in an article on increasing corn production which is expected to spawn an oxygen-starved “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico….
Raghu Murtugudde has been selected as a Lilly-CTE (Center for Teaching Excellence) Fellow for the coming academic year. The program provides anopportunity for ten faculty members interested in teaching and learning issues in undergraduate education to form a Fellowship and meet over the course of an academic year to discuss these issues on a regular basis.
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