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ESSIC scientists presented over 20 talks and posters at the 94th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting held February 2-6 in Atlanta, GA. The theme for this year’s meeting was  “Extreme Weather—Climate and the Built Environment:  New Perspectives Opportunities, and Tools.” Broad topics discussed included how extreme weather such as tornado, cyclones, floods, winter storms, wildfires, drought, and extreme solar activity influence technological innovation, scientific inquiry, …

ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph Ferraro was interviewed by Space News regarding the pending launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory Satellite. Several ESSIC researchers, including Ferrero, are principal investigators of the NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM), which conducts research in support of the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and GPM projects. The satellite was successfully launched from Japan on February 27, 2014. …

Dr. Kimberly Casey, visiting research assistant and glaciologist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is the first round winner of ESSIC’s Winter 2013-2014 Snow Prediction Pool. The winning prediction of eight inches was a “simple guess,” according to Casey. “I would feel quite lucky if I was successful at predicting both mid- and [overall] season snowfall totals,” she added. The pool’s first round ended Feb. 2, Groundhog Day and the midpoint of the season, by which time the Washington, …

Researcher: Charon Birkett Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $230,545 in additional funding, bringing the total award to $393,962 Grant Study: “The Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor Expansion and Enhancement of Water Height Products”   Researcher: Charon Birkett Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $120,279 in additional funding, bringing the total award to $251,934 Grant Study: “Multiple Radar Altimetry Data Sets to Serve Inland Water …

As a newly appointed member of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research’s board of trustees, ESSIC director Antonio Busalacchi will begin his term at the consortium in February. UCAR, which was founded in the late 1950s, now brings together experts from more than 100 member universities and colleges, all of which offer degrees in the atmospheric or climate sciences. While UCAR provides support for its member universities, its overall aim is to advance the field of atmospheric …

ESSIC Research Associate Anand Ramanathan was featured in the “NextGenVoices” section of the 03-Jan-2014 (Vol. 343 no. 6166) issue of Science.  His short piece on the laser was in reply to the question: “What recent discovery in your field will still be remembered 200 years from now and why?”…

Assistant Research Professor Melissa Kenney is working with the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) on the Ecosystem Services and Adaptation Project (ESAP).  This activity will explore the use of an ecosystem services framework for planning and implementing adaptation, which includes identifying biophysical production processes and metrics and valuation of ecosystem services. The project will begin at the NCSE conference in January and continue throughout 2014.  (Kenney …

ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Scientist Huan Meng has received a NOAA Bronze Medal for the development and implementation of NOAA’s first satellite-based operational snowfall rate product.   Meng is a physical scientist with the NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Climate Studies Branch co-located within the ESSIC Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellite (CICS-MD).  The Bronze Medal is the highest honor award that can be granted by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently served on the Research Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology  in Pune, India, January 15-17, 2014….

ESSIC Director and ConE Chair Professor Antonio Busalacchi is featured in a soon to be released article in Science News entitled “Grape Expectations.  The article addresses Busalacchi’s on-going study regarding climate change and its impact on the world’s wine-growing regions.  The article will be in-press in early February 2014, but an online version is currently available on the Science News web-site….