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A new NOAA study led by University of Maryland Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-MD) scientist Daniel Tong, suggests that a 20 year increase in dust storm events throughout the American Southwest, could be responsible for a dramatic rise in regional cases of Valley Fever.   Tong and his study coauthors found that the combination of warmer sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific coupled with cooler California coastal waters during the 2000s, likely …

The street-level restaurant is now open with an opening menu – a pricey opening menu. I ordered the mushroom/seitan sandwich, which was quite good. It's aiming to be a hip-and-happenin' hang-out, so the music's on the "electronic lounge" side of things and kinda loud. That being said, sitting at a sidewalk high-top table with a glass of tempranillo and mellowing out to the music would be a pleasant thing to do on a nice summer day.

Forks: 3.5 out of 5 for a good …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Ross Salawitch was quoted in a recent Baltimore Sun article, published prior to the April 2017 “March for Science” event held in Washington, D.C.  In the piece titled, “Maryland researchers see March for Science as way to raise public trust, support for discovery,” Salawitch was quoted expressing his support of the event, including his belief that future scientists need to use their voices to raise greater awareness.   Salawitch …

A new op-ed by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published by on-line media outlet Eco-Business.  Titled “India’s food-water-energy nexus: disaster or opportunity," the piece discusses irrigation in India and explores new technologies that seek to reverse the historic trend of water overuse and mismanagement. …

University of Maryland (UMD) Professor Ross Salawitch is an atmospheric and climate scientist, whose main research interest includes the quantification of the effect of human activity on atmospheric composition. Salawitch, who has joint appointments in the Departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC), Chemistry and Biochemistry (CHEM), and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), was conducting research based on a class he had taught when something startling …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier spoke at Eastern Carolina University (ECU) recently. The talk was entitled "Blue Carbon, Green Infrastructure, Biodiversity, and Human Health: Science to Support Coastal Resilience." Her lecture was part of a ECU Department of Biology Seminar Series….

A recent NASA news feature explored sea ice related research that featured work associated with ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Sinead Farrell, who was also quoted in the piece.  Farrell is part of team that will use NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) to measure sea ice in the third dimension. The satellite, expected to launch in 2018, will utilize laser instrumentation which will enable scientists to precisely measure how far sea ice floats above the …

ESSIC Research Assistant Professor and Leshner Fellow Melissa Kenney recently participated in a live chat event hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The event included science communication experts affiliated with AAAS and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and explored how scientists could better engage and communicate with both policymakers and the general public.  Please see the following link for further details: …

ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Zhankun Wang is a co-author of a recently published paper in the journal Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans.  The article is titled “Circulation analysis in the northwest Indian Ocean using ARGO floats and surface drifter observations, and SODA reanalysis output.” In the work, researchers use observations from broad-scale global array of temperature/salinity profiling floats (ARGO) and surface drifter data, as well as Simple Ocean …