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As part of the curriculum for UMD Honors Course 349G, “Big History: Earth, Life, and Sustainability,” students are asked to author articles that can effectively communicate climate change—within a human context–to the general public. According to course instructor, ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde, two of the student-penned articles were deemed worthy of on-line publication in The Diamondback, University of Maryland’s campus newspaper.  Additional climate-themed articles from …

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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 …