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As part of ESSIC’s end-of-year holiday party, the Center continued the annual tradition of recognizing the accomplishments of it’s 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 split between Research Associate Viviana Maggioni and Associate Research Scientist Hongbin Yu. Maggioni’s paper entitled, “Investigating the Applicability of Error Correction Ensembles of Satellite Rainfall Products …

Two years ago, ESSIC research associate professor Maria Tzortziou spent two weeks on a ship in the Chesapeake Bay, conducting research as part of a NASA scientific field campaign that would set the foundation for a future NASA satellite mission to study coastal ecosystem processes from geostationary satellites. This September, Tzortziou, along with 14 other scientists from NASA, NOAA and a number of U.S. universities, traveled to the Gulf of Mexico to conduct a similar mission on a larger …

ESSIC Director and ConE Chair, Professor Antonio Busalacchi was quoted in a recent “Spoon University” feature on champagne’s past, present, and future.  The article addressed the popular year-end celebratory wine and how climate change may eventually alter its storied heritage.   For further information: Bubbly Bliss: Champagne Past, Present and Future…

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was an invited distinguished scientist by the Government of India Department of Science and Technology to speak at the Innovation in Science – Pursuit of Inspired Research (INSPIRE) conference.  The two-day meeting was held in Shimoga, India in December, 2013….

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde, convened a Town Hall Meeting at the December 2013 AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA., entitled “Opportunities in Earth System Science in India.” The Town Hall meeting attracted over 100 participants to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Earth System Science research and education in India. (A follow up meeting will be held in India in 2014.) Participants included the directors of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, the Indian …

ESSIC / GEOL Assistant Professor Sujay Kaushal was interviewed on Northeast Public Radio regarding his August 2013 study on how acid rain is making NorthEast U.S. rivers and streams less acidic.  Kaushal’s interview and an accompanying article on his study are available at the WAMC web-site. http://wamc.org/post/dr-sujay-kaushal-university-maryland-acid-rain-and-alkaline-rivers  …

ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Bo-Wen Shen was published in an early online version of the AMS Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Shen’s paper is entitled, “Nonlinear Feedback in a Five-dimensional Lorenz Model.” In the study, the original 3-dimensional Lorenz Model (3DLM) is generalized with two additional modes (5DLM) to examine their role in the predictability of the numerical solutions and to understand the underlying processes that increase the solution stability….

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead L. Farrell attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 9-13 Dec., 2013, in San Francisco, CA. Farrell delivered an invited presentation entitled: “A Decade of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Change from Airborne and Satellite altimetry”. Farrell delivered updates on behalf of the NASA Operation IceBridge Sea Ice Science Team, at the NASA Operation IceBridgeTown Hall Meeting. Farrell co-chaired three sessions on “Monitoring Changes in Polar Ice …