Category: Highlights

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Zhanqing Li Joins Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Editorial Board

October 5, 2020

Dr. Zhanqing Li, Professor at ESSIC and University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, recently joined the editorial board of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of high-quality studies investigating the Earth’s atmosphere and the underlying chemical and physical processes.

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Jacqueline De La Cour Secures $4 Million For Coral Reef Watch

October 5, 2020

Last month, ESSIC/CISESS Senior Faculty Specialist Jacqueline De La Cour received a commendation from the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division for her work to secure full funding totaling almost $4 million for the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) for fiscal years 2021-2023.

Yin Published on Soil Moisture Operation Product System

October 5, 2020

A paper co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jifu Yin titled “NOAA Satellite Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Version 3.0 Generates Higher Accuracy Blended Satellite Soil Moisture” was recently published in Remote Sensing.

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Sutton-Grier Argues for Public Engagement in New Paper

October 5, 2020

ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier has a new paper out in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America about how the Ecological Society of America (ESA) should support more public engagement.

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Zhou and Grassotti Published on Development of Machine Learning-Based Radiometric Bias Correction for MiRS

October 5, 2020

ESSIC/CISESS scientists Post-doctoral Associate Yan Zhou and Senior Faculty Specialist Chris Grassotti have recently published in article in Remote Sensing titled “Development of a Machine Learning-Based Radiometric Bias Correction for NOAA’s Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS)”.

Duncan and Farrell Improve and Expand NOAA PolarWatch Data Catalog

September 30, 2020

As part of the support to the NOAA/NASA Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST), ESSIC/CISESS scientists Sinéad Farrell and Kyle Duncan have been developing datasets

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Goldberg Speaks on Mangrove Loss in the Washington Post

September 28, 2020

Liza Goldberg, ESSIC researcher and NASA student research assistant, was recently featured in a Washington Post article for her research on mangrove loss. Last July, Goldberg published a paper in Global Change Biology that used Google Earth Engine tools to map the global drivers of mangrove loss.