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Bridging the gap between climate science and the business world in order to help companies prepare for the effects of climate change is a job that has taken Guillermo “Willy” Accame from The Royal Society of the U.K. to the White House. Accame, a University of Maryland distinguished alumnus and current ESSIC and CIRUN industry liaison, said improving communication between climate scientists and the private industry, both by making climate data produced by NOAA and other research institutions …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in a Baltimore Sun article on the projected El Nino event and its impact on the state of Maryland.  Murtugudde cited the redistribution of heat and energy sources during an El Nino event, which can systematically alter global weather patterns.

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ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was featured in separate broadcast NBC and Al-Jazeera news segments, in which he discussed the White House National Climate Assessment report. Murtugudde singled out building HVAC systems in the NBC report, as being a tangible and attainable target in the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. In the Al-Jazeera report, Murtugudde cited increasing precipitation and sea-levels in the US Northeast coupled with the West Coast drought, as being …

Researcher: Antonio Busalacchi Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center  (Sequences 29, 30 and 32) Amount: $986,996 in additional funding bringing the total to $10,356,779 Grant Study: “Collaborative Earth System Science Research between NASA/GSFC and UMCP”…

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in The Hindu in an article entitled “Extremes in monsoon rainfall growing.”  Murtugudde suggested that Indian farmers will need to initiate conservation efforts, such as rainwater harvesting, in order to compensate for the cyclical changes occruing with respect to overall rainfall.. …

The University of Maryland Council on the Environment has awarded its second annual Junior Faculty Award to Dr. Sujay Kaushal, of the geology department and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.  The award, which includes a cash prize of $3,000 and the chance for the recipient to deliver a lecture on his or her accomplishments to the university community, is given to a faculty member to honor achievements over the past three to five years that have raised the profile of the …

ESSIC Research Associate Debra Kollonige delivered an invited presentation, along with R. Bradley Pierce (NOAA/NESDIS/CIMSS), at the 2014 Midwest and Central States Air Quality Workshop, held in St. Louis, Missouri from 22-24 April. Dr. Kollonige’s talk was entitled, “Satellite Signatures of Trace Gases Associated with US Oil and Gas Extraction FY 14 AQAST Project” and discussed new potential applications of satellite data for analyzing emissions and air quality models near and downwind of Oil …