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ESSIC Director Professor Antonino Busalacchi was recently quoted in a Baltimore Sun story on the evolving 2015 El Nino event.  The article premise discussed what opportunities the event provided to climate scientists for enhanced understanding of its lower-level impacts to the planet and how satellites would be used to monitor its evolution.  Busalacchi agreed that scientists now have better observations tool at hand, but those tools alone wouldn't necessarily improve future El …

ESSIC's Melissa Kenney was a keynote speaker at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference held this year in Kansas City, Mo.  Kenney  was also formally presented with the Sigma Xi  2015 Young Investigator Award (YIA) at the event.  The award is presented annually to recognize an excellent active Sigma Xi member within 10 years of his or her highest earned degree. (The annual meeting was held from October 22 – 25, 2015.)  Kenney particapated in a …

ESSIC Research Associate Leon Chafik was a co-author of a recent early release study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).  The paper entitled, "Impacts of high-latitude volcanic eruptions on ENSO and AMOC," explores the long-term effects of high-latitude eruptions on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) as well as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Augusto Getirana is the author of a new study to be published in a pending release of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journal of Hydrometeorology.  The paper entitled, "Extreme water deficit in Brazil detected from space,"  details how spacebourne remote sensing data is advancing the understanding, dection and monitoring of  droughts and extreme water-related events.  The study utilizes data from the Gravimetry …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde is currently teaching "Numerical Methods and Glaciers in the Earth System" at a workshop on Modeling Mountain Glacier Dynamics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER-Pune) in Prune, India.  The two-week course  introduces theoretical and numerical tools of glacier dynamics with emphasis on hands-on application. It is targeted at glaciology PhD candidates and interested masters' …

Professor Antonio Busalacchi, ESSIC Director was an invited participant as part of a US delegation to the Fondation des Treilles hosted conference entitled, “Climate Change with an emphasis on Iran.”  The event which was held from October 19 – 24, 2015 in Tourtour, France  was organized by Professor Glenn Schweitzer, the US National Academy of Sciences Director for the Program on Central Europe and Eurasia, in coordination with the French Academy of Sciences and a …

Nando's is open. Cycled by a few days ago and it was packed. Haven't been to this particular one, but they're all the same – mainly chicken stuff, including livers. Nice to see wines from Portugal and South Africa on the wine list. Like their garlic peri-peri sauce, too. UPDATE: Had a meal there – food's good, nothing out of the ordinary. Chicken is chicken and the hot sauce is hot (two Kleenexes' worth hot). Nice decor, a bit cozy inside, space-wise. Free wi-fi …

The University of Maryland Research Park (M Square) was recognized by the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) with the organization's 2015 Outstanding Research Park award at a ceremony held in early October. M Square stood out among an estimated 150 AURP members for its contribution to job creation, as well as its role in fulfilling the university’s research mission, said AURP Chief Executive Officer Eileen Walker. The members of the research park “do a …

University of Maryland Professor Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Executive Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), is a principal investigator of a newly funded grant sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).  The grant, which fosters research on food, energy and water (F-E-W) as a linked system or “nexus,” provides $1.2 million dollars in support of 17 F-E-W workshops, which will involve 30-80 participants each.  The workshops …

ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney has been elected to the governing board of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS (operations research and analytics). The Decision Analysis Society promotes the development and use of logical methods for improving decision-making in public and private enterprise. https://www.informs.org/Community/DAS…