Category: Archive

McNally’s Model Used in New FEWS Special Report

April 1, 2016

ESSIC Research Associate Amy McNally recently contributed to a Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS) Special Report on drought in Southern Africa. The report, titled “Illustrating the extent and severity of the 2015-16 drought,” details the impacts of the recent drought on water availability, crop production, food prices, and food security. As part of the FEWS Land Data Assimilation System, McNally’s surface water availability model helped illustrate the severe surface water deficits in …

Sutton-Grier Wins Innovations in Sustainability Science Award

April 1, 2016

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced March 23 that their ESA Innovations in Sustainability Science Award will be given to ESSIC researcher Ariana Sutton-Grier. The award winning article, co-authored by Sutton-Grier, was published in Environmental Science and Policy in 2015 and is titled “Future of our coasts: The potential for natural and hybrid infrastructure to enhance the resilience of our coastal communities, economies and ecosystems.” The article considers …

Petty and Boisvert contribute to NSIDC article on sea ice decline

March 21, 2016

ESSIC’s Alek Petty and Linette Boisvert contributed to a recent National Snow and Ice Data Center web-site post, regarding a record decline in Artic sea ice levels during February 2016. The average ice extent was the lowest on satellite record for the month, with data suggesting that the February ice extent has decreased by 3 percent per decade since 1979. The full article can be found in the link …

Petty Selected as 2016 IASC Early Career Fellow

March 17, 2016

ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Alek Petty was recently appointed by the International Arctic Science Committee’s Cryosphere Working Group as an Early Career Fellow. The three-year appointment will allow Petty to expand on his research in polar science, while engaging in leading-edge scientific activities at a circumarctic and international level. Petty, who studies the changing dynamics of the Arctic sea ice pack, was officially inducted as a fellow at the Arctic Science Summit …

NOAAPORT Installation at UMD M-Square

March 3, 2016

By: Scott Rudlosky

Following nearly three years of coordination, a NOAAPORT Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) antenna, receiver, and server have been installed at the University of Maryland. A 3.7 meter antenna now sits atop the M-Square Building which hosts the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-MD).

The NOAAPORT will provide nearly identical feeds to those received at National Weather Service (NWS) Weather

Li-Cribb organize session at AAAS Annual Meeting

February 17, 2016

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Zhanqing Li facilitated a symposium at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held in Washington, DC during mid- February. The symposium entitled, “Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Policy in Asia,” addressed major pollution/emission sources; the direct and indirect effects of aerosol on long-term trends in key climate variables; interactions between aerosols and the monsoon system; and health …

CICS Annual Reports

February 16, 2016

Scientific Reports from CICS. Includes research highlights as well as a summary of achievements.

http://cicsmd.umd.edu/publication/annual-reports/

Salawitch quoted in Science

February 11, 2016

ESSIC / AOSC / CHEM Professor Ross Salawitch was quoted in a new article recently published in Science. The piece, which originated out of a discussion between Salawitch and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) staff writer Eric Hand, discusses the potential for record ozone loss in the Arctic stratosphere during the spring of 2016. Aptly titled, “Record ozone hole may open over Arctic in the spring,” Salawitch suggested that uncertainty remained …

Antonio Busalacchi Elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 8, 2016

Monday, 8 February 2016

Antonio Busalacchi, professor of atmospheric and ocean science at the University of Maryland and director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Busalacchi was recognized for his contributions to our “understanding of tropical oceans in coupled climate systems via remotely sensed observations and for international leadership of climate prediction/projection research.”

“I am very

Murtugudde quoted in ScienceNews article

February 2, 2016

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in a ScienceNews article on the disappearance of phytoplankton from the Indian Ocean. The piece, which referenced Murtugudde’s recently co-authored study published in Geophysical Research Letters, details the ecological threat posed by rapid loss of phytoplankton. …