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ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney is a contributor to a new report entitled “Assessing Ecological Integrity across Jurisdiction and Scales,” which was released IN December. It offers a framework to assess the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity to help ensure that natural systems continue to provide intrinsic value and benefits to human communities. It was developed for use by public and private entities who manage natural resources. The …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was published in three separate climate-related Op-Ed articles during the month of December 2014.  Murtugudde was twice published in Livescience–“To Cool a Warming Planet, Give Developing Countries a Voice” /  “Money Drives Weather Data, But What About Climate?“–and once in India Climate Dialogue; “India needs a solution-based position for Paris summit.”…

ESSIC Faculty Research Assistant Mathew Biddle, in support of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), helped to facilitate the completion of a joint project to archive data automatically from the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS).   The first data set archived under the new automated process is titled "Oceanographic and surface meteorological data collected from station ATW20 by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and assembled by Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) in the …

ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney has been selected by the Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi as their 2015 Young Investigator Award recipient. The award was established by the Society's Board of Directors in 1996 “to recognize researchers in the early stages of their careers whose outstanding contributions best exemplify the ideals of Sigma Xi.” The award includes an honorarium of $5,000, a commemorative certificate and the opportunity to present the Young …

As part of ESSIC’s end-of-year holiday gathering, the Center continued the annual tradition of recognizing the accomplishments of its own faculty and staff, with two peer-based award for “Best Scientific Research Paper” and “Staff Employee of the Year.” The award for best paper was presented to Assistant Research Scientist Huan Wu. Wu’s paper entitled, “Real-time global flood estimation using satellite-based precipitation and a coupled land surface and routing model” was published in Water …

With two of the world’s most influential nations agreeing to reduce their carbon emissions in the coming years, a new era of environmental policy cooperation could have lasting global effects. At a conference held in Beijing, China in early November 2014, the United States (U.S.) and China announced their joint cooperation on a mission to reduce the total amount of carbon pollution each country emits. Dr. Wenze Yang, a research assistant with the University of Maryland (UMD) Earth System …

Research conducted by ESSIC Research Associate Jianjun Liu  and ESSIC / AOSC Professor Zhanqing Li–previously published in Atmospheric Chemistry Physics–was selected for highlight in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Annual Report.   ARM is a DOE’s primary program aiming at understanding the processes of climate changes and improving projection of future climate changes due to anthropogenic activities.  The report chooses only a handful of the most …

Lewis Fry Richardson — an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist — made the first attempt at modern weather prediction during World War I and failed. It was only in the 1950s that weather prediction became routine thanks to the invention of the computer and the innovation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist Jules Charney. Now weather prediction has advanced to a remarkably high level of accuracy, progressing as a result of routine data …