A couple of festivals coming up: College Park Day (low-key, but cute … hope the henna painting person shows up again) https://collegeparkday.wordpress.com/ Turkish Festival (great food, crafts, dancing, etc. … worth checking out) http://www.turkishfestival.org/info.html ~~~ …
ESSIC’s Michael Evans, co-author of a recent study published in Nature Geosciences, was featured in a recent Diamondback article highlighting the same research. Evans, along with a team of international researchers, analyzed the effects of industrialization on the global ocean cooling trend that spanned the 16th – 18th centuries. ESSIC Director Antonio Busalacchi was also quoted in the piece, noting the study’s significance with respect to providing a …
ESSIC’s Arianna Sutton-Grier is co-PI of a newly funded exploratory grant sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Gulf Research Program. The one-year grants provide seed money for research in its early conceptual phase, for activities that can accelerate concept to testing, or for development of novel approaches. The program funded 12 grants, totaling more than $1.5 million, for award year 2015. Sutton-Grier’s project will examine how human health …
The 11th annual NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Science Symposium will be hosted by the University of Maryland’s Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), a joint center with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NESDIS). The two-day workshop to be held September 16 – 17, 2015 at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center highlights research and …
Deriving Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) from satellite data is important for air quality monitoring because such information helps us to identify and track atmospheric particles, including dust and smoke, in the air we breathe. In the past however, the data processing of this retrieval often required several hours to complete. Recently, a research team that included ESSIC’s Dr. Jingfeng Huang was recognized with NOAA’s Annual STAR Award for Innovation, by …
ESSIC / AOSC Professor and CICS Executive Director Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm is the principal investigator for two newly awarded research grants. A grant funded via the World Bank will study the impacts of climate change on global water supply and demand. The study will be conducted jointly by ESSIC and the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). A grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support an upcoming Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus …
ESSIC / AOSC Professor and CICS Executive Director Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm was a participant at the annual World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Sweden during late August 2015. The annual meeting, which is considered the focal point for the globe’s water issues, utilized a theme of Water for Development, at this year’s event. Miralles-Wilhelm was quoted in an event coverage article by Reuters, regarding Latin America water security issues resulting from agricultural …
Several ESSIC scientists contributed to a recent NASA study that found vegetation was essential for limiting city warming effects. The study’s conclusion was supported through a land model that included Landsat and MODIS data to assess the impact of urbanization on US surface climate. ESSIC researchers Ping Zhang (2nd author), Georgy Mostovoy, and Marc Imhoff contributed to the study.
ESSIC’s Ariana Sutton-Grier was the principal organizer of a session at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The session—in which Sutton-Grier also presented–was entitled, “Science at the Frontier of Understanding "Natural Infrastructure: Societal Benefits of Healthy Coastal Ecosystems.” The session focused on the many and varied benefits that healthy coastal ecosystems provide to people. Sutton-Grier was …
ESSIC Researchers Jianping Mao and Anand Ramanathan were part of a recent study that utilized CO2 measurements taken by the passive miniaturized laser heterodyne radiometer (Mini-LHR) at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Working in tandem with an AERONET sun photometer that measures aerosol optical depth during daylight hours, the study concludes that the technology offers a low-cost, small, portable sensor to measure atmospheric gases such as ozone, water vapor, methane, ammonia, …