Category: Press Releases

Zhanqing Li. Image credit: John T. Consoli/Faye Levine/University of Maryland. Effects by Nuwan Paditha (Click image to download hi-res version)

Zhanqing Li Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

May 5, 2023

Distinguished University Professor (DUP) Zhanqing Li has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award, a prestigious honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to support Dr. Li’s month-long visit of the Universite de Lille in Lille, France, where he will be collaborating on studies concerning air pollution and interactions with global climate changes by means of remote sensing and AI techniques.

Rising to a Grand Challenge: Climate-Related Disasters, Farming Crises

April 27, 2023

A multidisciplinary group of researchers focused on Earth system science and global change is preparing to leverage the latest scientific tools and discoveries in their fields to meet the existential threats of climate change in Maryland head-on.

English: small stream running though a small town park

A New Approach to Estimating the Benefits of Urban Streams

April 24, 2023

An interdisciplinary team of researchers including ESSIC Scientist Michael Gerst has developed a suite of tools to estimate the total economic value of improving water quality in urban streams.

Can Li receiving his award from Dean Amitahb Varshney

Can Li is CMNS’ 2023 Distinguished Research Scientist

April 21, 2023

Congratulations to ESSIC Scientist Can Li, the newest recipient of CMNS’ Distinguished Research Scientist Prize.

A MAN HARVESTS PACIFIC OYSTERS IN YAQUINA BAY, OREGON. PACIFIC OYSTER LARVAE ARE PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO OCEAN ACIDIFICATION. CREDIT: NOAA

How could increased Carbon Dioxide change the ocean for shellfish and coral?

April 13, 2023

New tool available for predicting the future of ocean acidification

Corporate Investment Could Boost Climate-tech Innovation

April 6, 2023

Corporate investments in climate-tech startups are a growing but overlooked aspect of energy innovation, according to a new report co-led by a University of Maryland researcher.

A screenshot of the new data management tool used to manage ocean carbon and ocean acidification data

A Community-driven Data Management System for Ocean Carbon and Acidification Research

March 15, 2023

Today, a team of researchers led by Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Scientists Li-Qing Jiang and Alex Kozyr, debuted the Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS), which will serve as one of the world’s leading providers of ocean carbon and acidification data, information, and products.

Global shallow groundwater from 2003 to 2021. Credits: NASA

Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense

March 13, 2023

Scientists have predicted that droughts and floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but detecting this on regional and continental scales has proven difficult. Now a new UMD and NASA study confirms that major droughts and pluvials – periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on land – have indeed been occurring more often.