A paper co-authored by ESSIC Research Scientist William Lau, Professor Zhanqing Li, scientist Weichen Tao, and AOSC Graduate Student Lei Zhang was recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite captured Hurricane Laura, the deadly Category 4 hurricane that hit Louisiana in late August. AMSR2 is a remote sensing instrument used to measure weak microwave emission from Earth’s surface and atmosphere. SCSB- and CISESS-led products captured Hurricane Laura at various stages of development. Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky shared several images to his Twitter feed, which show considerable lightning around the eye wall during Laura’s intensification.
Last June, NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, an ongoing effort to monitor changes in polar ice, was awarded a Robert H. Goddard award for Science Teams. On this team is Alek Petty, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, who has made substantial contributions as a member of the missision’s Project Science Office.
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Hu “Tiger” Yang recently published an article in a special issue of the journal Remote Sensing titled “A Study of Lunar Microwave Radiation Based on Satellite Observations”. The paper is also co-authored by Martin Burgdorf from the University of Hamburg in Germany.
Last week , ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist V Beth Kuser Olsen gave an invited talk at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). In addition to her research with ESSIC, Olsen is Chair of the Human Ecology Section of the ESA.
A new article in Yahoo News interviewed ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Augustin Vintzileos on the link between COVID-19 and climate.
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm was recently interviewed by Water Action Platform as a part of their multi-day webinar series.
ESSIC/CISESS Post-doctoral Associate Daile Zhang recently taught a virtual meteorology class as a part of a summer camp for 6th grade students from Stafford County Public Schools.
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Julie Nicely is principal investigator on a project, titled “A Diagnostic Package to Facilitate and Enhance Chemical Mechanism Implementations Within Regional and Global Atmospheric Chemistry Models”, that just earned an EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant for Chemical Mechanisms to Address New Challenges in Air Quality Modeling.
ESSIC/CISESS Post-doctoral Associate Daile Zhang helped organize and attended the first International Lightning Safety & Protection Meeting, which was held on June 24th and 25th, 2020 over Zoom.
