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A recent article published on Climate Change News quoted ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ariana Sutton-Grier regarding global mangrove ecosystems. The article focused on the environmental and economic affects of decreasing coastal ecosystems in Kenya. Sutton-Grier explained, "By the end of the century we could easily have no mangroves left."…

By: Melissa Kenney

As much as you want to find a great research opportunity, the professor or project lead wants to find a great student to work on their project. Many of these projects are things that the professor has spent a great deal of time thinking about and scoping; thus, the kind of student that they want to find to work on their project is one that is smart and incredibly passionate about their research and their study. They are looking for students that are team players, but highly independent and

Venkata  Prava, A former Ph.D. student of ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney, was recognized as a runner up in the 2016 Decision Analysis Award (DAS) student paper competition.  The paper entitled, “Partition Dependence and Carryover Biases in Subjective Probability Assessment Surveys for Continuous Variables: Model-based Estimation and Correction,” was produced as part of an NSF grant that was awarded to Kenney and Prava’s other advisors.  …

Useful little exercises ……

ESSIC Visiting Research Scientist and CICS-MD researcher Zhankun Wang co-authored a paper that has been accepted by the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR). The paper is titled “Asymmetric oceanic response to a hurricane: Deepwater observations during hurricane Isaac.” Through an analysis of sub-inertial bands, the paper reveals that “spatial and temporal scales are shorter and less persistent than the near-inertial variance.” According to the research, these scales …

In an article for The Hindu, ESSIC/AOSC professor Raghu Murtugudde is quoted in reference to a study conducted by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay. The study found that rainfall in India is not necessarily associated with increased summer temperatures due to global warming. Murtugudde attests that scientists are not attempting to suggest that climate change is not important, but that “the novel results [of the studies] indicate that the local warming is …

ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting on Climate Change and Human Rights, which took place on July 25 and 26. Kenney moderated the first plenary session on actionable climate science for human rights. According to the AAAS website, this session was a way for scientists and policy makers to discuss their current work as well as a means for them to talk …