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Recently, ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist Jeannette Wild co-authored several chapters of the Long-term Ozone Trends and Uncertainties in the Stratosphere (LOTUS) Report, a two-year endeavor to characterize the status and possible recovery of global ozone using datasets from satellite and ground instruments. The study also sought to classify and determine the associated error estimates of the trends derived from the instruments.  The proper understanding of the error is crucial to …

This week, ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Professor Melissa Kenney gave a keynote address at the Patuxent River Conference, a gathering of scientists, environmental educators, and natural resource managers to discuss the health and future of the Patuxent River.  This year’s theme for the conference was “Climate Change & the Patuxent River: Local Implications of Global Issues”. In the address, Kenney spoke about the environmental management challenges that come …

Last week, staff from NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW), an initiative now supported by the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center-administered Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), published a commentary piece in Frontiers in Marine Science contesting an article that claimed mass coral bleaching has been occurring on the Great Barrier Reef for the last 400 years, rather than being a recent phenomenon. In the article, “Commentary: Reconstructing Four Centuries of …

On February 27, ESSIC/CICS Visiting Research Scientist Huan Meng gave an invited webinar in the Virtual Alaska Weather Symposium (VAWS) on satellite Snowfall Rate (SFR) in conjunction with Wes Adkins from NWS Juneau, AK Office. In the seminar, Meng introduced the SFR algorithm and its calibration and validation while Adkins presented SFR assessment case studies at the Juneau and Anchorage Offices. VAWS is a webinar series created by the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment (ACCAP) and Policy …

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientists Amy McNally and Iliana E. Mladenova recently co-authored a paper titled “Hydrologic and Agricultural Earth Observations and Modeling for the Water-Food Nexus” in Frontiers: in Environmental Science. The paper highlights the inextricable link between sustainable access to water and food and basic human rights.  The authors present case studies of how Earth observations are being used in applications at the nexus of water and food security: crop …