Category: Archive

Researcher: Zhanqing Li
Grant Sponsor: NASA
Amount: $300,000
Grant Study: “East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols”…

Ross Salawitch was one of the contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The Nobel citation for the IPCC praises two decades of scientific reports that have created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming….

Ruth DeFries was elected a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was recognized at the Annual AAAS Fellows Forum meeting in Boston on February 16th for her contribution to science and technology….

Antonio Busalacchi, AOSC and ESSIC, met with Governor O’Malley and participated in his press conference on February 19th in support of the Global Warming Solutions Act. Later that afternoon Busalacchi testified to the State Senate on the topic of “Climate Change: State of the Science.”…

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences was ranked number 4 in the country by the Chronicle of Higher Education….

AOSC and ESSIC faculty co-authored 8 or 18 articles in a new book “East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols: An International Regional Experiment (EAST-AIRE)” published by the AGU and reprinted from the Journal of Geophysical Research….

Researcher: Da-Lin Zhang, ASOC and ESSIC
Grant Sponsor: DOD
Amount: $137,713
Grant Study: “Cloud-Resolving Simulations of Typhoon Nari”…