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Science news outlet and research aggregate LiveScience, has published an Op-ed article adapted from a recent blog post by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde. The post appeared in the LiveScience “Expert Voices” section, which invites authorities on science and technology to provide insight into current events. The original post from Murtugudde’s locally-hosted “Gudde-Blog” column, details how the earth’s internal variability is alive and well. The Murtugudde LiveScience Op-ed post …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde provided expert commentary for multiple broadcast CNN reports on the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Murtugudde was questioned on a range of topics including ocean currents, light and sound transmission, and seafloor topography and sediments….

ESSIC / Geology professor James Farquhar is one of nine participants of a university sponsored pilot program seeking to improve campus researchers’ communication techniques. Leslie Felbain, the director of the MFA in Performance program in Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies will lead the program. Felbain will meet with participants and coach them through activities that improve persuasive speech, such as eye contact, tempo, and breathing techniques. Patrick O’Shea, …

Physics undergraduate and Faculty Research Assistant, Ms. Julia Ruth, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship in April 2014. The NSF received more than 14,000 applications for the 2014 competition and made 2,000 fellowship award offers that recognize outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Ms. Ruth plans to pursue her graduate degree at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego …

A unique education program was held on Capitol Hill the evening of March 25 —one that highlighted the link between Federal investment in Earth science and observations and the cha ching of the U.S. economy. As part of the Grains to Grapes program hosted by the Alliance for Earth Observations and Wine America, participants learned of the impacts of weather on the wine sector at home and abroad and the opportunities that exist for the U.S. agriculture and business sectors to utilize weather …

The attendees of the University of Maryland’s honors workshop HONR359C are not only studying the historic role humans have played in the formation and alteration of the earth’s climate and environment, but are also hoping to raise campus awareness. Entitled “Big History: Earth, Life, and Sustainability,” the workshop led by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde, has embarked on a class project which seeks to gather data on the average UMD student’s carbon footprint. Through the repurposing …