ESSIC/CISESS scientist, Daile Zhang, held a live Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) event for the Lightning Safety Awareness Week on June 24, 2024. The event was hosted by the UMD’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
ESSIC scientists Li-Qing Jiang, Paige Lavin, and Hyelim Yoo are a part of a team of scientists that have developed detailed maps that track ocean acidification indicators from 1998 to 2022 for eleven large marine ecosystems (LMEs) in the U.S. The study was just published in Nature – Scientific Data for this work.
ESSIC/CISESS scientist, Daile Zhang, who also serves as a Board of Directors of an NGO – African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network (ACLENet) visited Uganda last week. She and the team helped install lightning protection systems (LPSs) at the St. Victor Mulabana Primary School in Kalangala district, an Island on the Lake Victoria. Uganda experiences more than two million lightning strikes per year. The installation will protect 400+ students, teachers, and the nearby community from these lightning strikes.
Russ Dickerson, ESSIC affiliate & key investigator for Climate Resilience Network, is working on an ongoing project to characterize and improve air quality in overburdened communities in Maryland.
Last month, Alexey Mishonov participated in the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS24), held in Bergen, Norway.
ESSIC Scientist Min Huang is first author on a new article published in Eos, the American Geophysical Union’s science magazine. The article, titled “An Air Quality Model That Is Evolving with the Times”, discusses how the Sulfur Transport and Deposition Model (STEM) continues to find new applications and value in environmental science and policy making.
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Chris Grassotti along with CIRA and NOAA researchers Shuyan Liu and Quanhua (Mark) Liu, recently published a paper in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing titled “Warm-Season Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS) Precipitation Improvement Using Machine Learning Methods”.
On Earth Day 2024, Lisa Milani visited several schools in Italy participating in The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM) Mentorship Program – Educator Track. The
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Liqing Jiang recently hosted the first International Workshop to Advance Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data Management and Interoperability in Venice, Italy on May 7-8 2024.
Jianping Mao is first author on a new paper in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques titled, “Airborne lidar measurements of atmospheric CO2 column concentrations to cloud tops made during the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE campaign”.
