Category: Highlights

Isaac Moradi smiles for the camera, wearing a red gridded button-up and a red tie

Isaac Moradi Receives 2024 CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Award

April 11, 2024

Congratulations to Isaac Moradi, named the 2024 recipient of the CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Award!

Early Career Scientist Spotlight: Dr. Allison Chartrand

April 11, 2024

Click here to read NASA’s Early Career Scientist Spotlight of ESSIC Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Allison Chartrand.

Allison Chartrand Joins AGU Voices for Science

April 3, 2024

Allison Chartrand, ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate, has been selected for the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2024 Voices for Science program.

Figure: Breakdown of uncertainty sources, compared seasonally. (a) July uncertainty sources: gas exchange transfer velocity (k, purple), pCO2 mapping uncertainty (pCO2, blue), and choice of wind product (wind, turquoise). (b) percentage each source contributes to total uncertainty, averaged latitudinally. (c,d) same as (a-b) but for January.

A Spatially Explicit Uncertainty Analysis of the Air-Sea CO2 Flux From Observations

April 3, 2024

Annika Jersild, ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist, is first author on a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters titled “A Spatially Explicit Uncertainty Analysis of the Air-Sea CO2 Flux From Observations”.

ESSIC Research Scientist Dorothy Hall is first author on a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters titled “Snowfall Replenishes Groundwater Loss in the Great Basin of the Western United States, but Cannot Compensate for Increasing Aridification”.

Snowfall Replenishes Groundwater Loss in the Great Basin of the Western United States, but Cannot Compensate for Increasing Aridification

March 27, 2024

ESSIC Research Scientist Dorothy Hall is first author on a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters titled “Snowfall Replenishes Groundwater Loss in the Great Basin of the Western United States, but Cannot Compensate for Increasing Aridification”.

The Prevalent Life Cycle Of Agricultural Flash Droughts

March 27, 2024

CISESS Deputy Director and ESSIC Research Professor Ernesto Hugo Berbery is a co-author on a new paper in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, a Nature Research journal, that examines agricultural flash droughts worldwide and reveals their characteristics and life cycle.

Figure: ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Christopher Smith presenting his research as the Enterprise Proving Ground Satellite Liaison for the NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) and Ocean Prediction Center (OPC) to maximize satellite capabilities for weather forecasts.

ESSIC Hosts Annual UMD-NOAA Mini-Conference

March 13, 2024

The National Weather and Climate Prediction Center (NCWCP) and UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) held a three-day mini-conference from February 27 to 29, a hybrid event held both at the ESSIC and online. The conference brought together ESSIC, CISESS, and NOAA scientists to share their presentations and posters from the recent AGU and AMS conferences. Peter Beierle was the conference organizer for UMD.

Key actors and their roles in implementing blue carbon projects in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, with a focus on communities as beneficiaries

Blue Carbon for Climate Mitigation: Benefits and Challenges

March 12, 2024

ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier has contributed to a chapter in a new book titled Beneficiaries, Equity, and Trade-Offs in Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystem Services. Sutton-Grier contributed to a section on blue carbon.

Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm Named President Of University Of Maryland Center For Environmental Science

February 27, 2024

Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, former director of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), has been appointed the next president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES).

WOA23 annual mean sea water temperature for the 2015-2022 time period on 0.25 grid.

World Ocean Atlas 2023 Released

February 20, 2024

ESSIC/CISESS scientist Alexey Mishonov is one of the authors of the newly released World Ocean Atlas 2023. The World Ocean Atlas 2023 (WOA23) is a set of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate means based on profile data from the World Ocean Database (WOD). WOA23 includes approximately 1.8 million new oceanographic casts added to the WOD since WOA18’s release, as well as renewed and updated quality controls. The database can be used to create boundaries and/or initial conditions for a variety of ocean models, verify numerical simulations of the ocean, and corroborate satellite data.