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NCAS Weather Camp Comes To ESSIC For Fourth Annual Visit

Students participating in Howard University’s NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) CAREERS Weather Camp came to ESSIC on July 20 as part of their fourth annual visit to the center. The NCAS CAREERS Weather Camp is a two week program that gives high school students with interests in atmospheric, environmental or applied physical sciences the ability to gain knowledge about the fields and hear from working scientists. Students came from all over the U.S., some traveling from …

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connect to FTPserver with windows

How To Connect To An FTP Server Open Windows Explorer or File Explorer and, in the address bar, type ftp:// followed by the IP Address of the FTP server. Here’s one dummy example of how it should look like: ftp://192.168.2.1. Of course, you can use its domain name as well, if you know it. That looks something like this: ftp.example.com You are then asked to fill in details such as the username and password that will be used to connect to the FTP server. Type the

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Jiang Helps Publish New Ocean Acidification e-Lecture

A team of researchers including Dr. Liqing Jiang, an assistant research engineer at the University of Maryland (UMD) Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), recently published an e-Lecture entitled “How to Document – Ocean Acidification Data.” The e-Lecture, which can be found on the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ALSO) website, deals with the intricacies of documenting data for the new field of ocean …

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NCEI Climatology Team Releases Updated Northwest Atlantic Regional Climatology

The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) climatology team, which includes ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Alexey Mishonov, recently released an updated version of the Northwest Atlantic Regional Climatology (NARC). The climatology is a detailed reference which, according to the NCEI website, “provide[s] an improved oceanographic foundation and reference for multi-disciplinary studies of The Northwest Atlantic.” The update enabled the climatology to have …

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Sutton-Grier to be published in FEE

A new study by ESSIC researcher Arianna Sutton-Grier was accepted for publication by Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.  Sutton-Grier and her coauthors discuss the role of coastal and marine systems in mitigating climate change, specifically the recommendation that current  efforts focus primarily on coastal wetlands, as they represent long-term carbon sinks, potential carbon sources upon conversion, and can be managed for their carbon sequestration value. Sutton-Grier, …

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Agroforestry Is An Age-Old Practice With Modern Day Benefits

As world climates continue to evolve, many regions are now faced with dwindling rainy seasons, affecting both traditional agricultural practices and overall crop yields. An ancient, but recently rediscovered land management system called agroforestry could be the solution to the problems associated with reduced rainfall, low soil moisture and carbon sequestration. Agroforestry is the practice of growing trees or shrubs around and among crops combining both agriculture and forestry in a …

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Murtugudde quoted in the Telegraph

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was cited in a recent article in The Telegraph.  The piece entitled, “The rainmen cometh,” discusses how both international and indian climate scientists are working together to aid farmers in more accurate predictions of the annual monsoon season….

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As Climate Warms, Researchers Turn to Aerosols for Future Projections

As countries within the United Nations scramble to decrease greenhouse gas emissions in support of the historic Paris Climate Agreement signed last year, researchers have taken aim at discovering just how impactful these potential pollution reductions will be. Even as scientists come to understand the atmosphere with more precision and detail, there are still questions left unanswered. One of the greatest sources of uncertainty lies in the influence of aerosols. Aerosols are small …

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Sutton-Grier to Speak at Capitol Hill Briefing on Coastal Resilience

ESSIC researcher Ariana Sutton-Grier is one of three speakers scheduled to appear before a congressional briefing on nature-based solutions to combat coastal erosion.  Sutton-Grier’s talk will summarize the latest scientific research supporting the role of healthy ecosystems in providing benefit to both society and the economy.  Invitations to the July 6th event in Washington, D.C. were sent to over 300 Hill staffers. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust and the …

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Smith to Receive Commerce Department Group Award

ESSIC visiting research scientist Tom Smith will be recognized with a Commerce Department Group Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement, as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Surface Temperature Dataset Team. The team was nominated by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) for ground-breaking research that utilized the dataset to disprove the so-called “15 year hiatus” in global …

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