American Geophysical Union (AGU) held its annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana over 15-19 December 2025. AGU is the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convening 25,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research and connect with friends and colleagues.
ESSIC had a large presence at the meeting. The following details posters, panels, and other contributions with ESSIC authors appearing in bold. Please note that this list is not exhaustive.
December 15
- Diagnosing the role of groundwater dynamics in terrestrial water storage forecast using GRACE and GRACE FO data
- Bailing Li, Abheera Hazra, Amy McNally, Kimberly Slinski, Shrad Shukla, Weston B Anderson
- Plant water dynamics inferred from field- vs satellite-scale microwave remote sensing (Invited)
- Andrew Feldman, William Kolby Smith, Alexandra G Konings, Shawn Serbin
- High spatial variability of ecosystem responses to drought revealed with ECOSTRESS
- Andrew Feldman, Thomas Holmes, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Joshua B. Fisher, Benjamin Poulter, Martha Anderson, Wade T Crow, Shawn Serbin
- Leveraging Multi-Sensor Observations for Global Reservoir Monitoring
- Elyssa Collins, Augusto Getirana, Sujay V Kumar, Yeosang Yoon, Chi Hsiang Huang, Huilin Gao, Fuad Yassin
- Dynamic Lapse Rate Corrections Improve Snowpack Modeling Across Mountain Regions Critical for Water Supply
- Kristen Marie Whitney, Sujay V Kumar, David M Mocko, Justin M Pflug, John D Bolten, Fadji Zaouna Maina, Melissa Wrzesien, Christopher Hain
- The Interplay of Vegetation and Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks in Flash Drought Prediction
- Mahmoud Osman, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Patricia Lawston Parker, Joseph A Santanello, Martha Anderson
December 16
- Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Everett Hinkley, Sabrina Delgado Arias, Timothy Assal, Jessica Burnett Jenny Hewson, Elizabeth Embury Hoy, Andrew Lister, Aimee Renee Neeley, Birgit Peterson
- Integrating Disparate Data and Models to Project the Extent of Seasonal Flooding in South Sudan
- James P Verdin, Kimberly Slinski, Md Shahriar Pervez, Laura Harrison, Amy McNally, Michael E Budde, Chris Shitote, Andrew Hoell, Karyn M. Tabor
- SnowPit: Using Snow Science to Develop a Set of Best Practices for Effective Collaboration in a Cloud Environment
- Zachary Fair, Carrie Vuyovich, Anthony A Arendt, Michael Studinger
December 17
- Next-Generation PBL Observations: Synergistic Approaches and Technological Breakthroughs from NASA’s WH²yMSIE-APEX Campaigns Poster
- Antonia Gambacorta, Amin R Nehrir, Alexander Kotsakis, Shawn Serbin, Andrew Feldman, Stephen D Nicholls, Narges Shahroudi, Carol Anne Clayson
- Physical Retrievals of Atmospheric Profiles within the Planetary Boundary Layer from CoSMIR-H Observations during WH²yMSIE
- Narges Shahroudi, Patrick Stegmann, Antonia Gambacorta, Rachael Kroodsma, Alexander Kotsakis, Stephen D Nicholls
- Investigating the role of surface interactions and heterogeneity on the planetary boundary layer with the NASA WH2yMSIE campaign
- Andrew Feldman, Shawn Serbin, Antonia Gambacorta, Stephen D Nicholls, Ran Wang, Robert Holz, Melina Yabra, Thomas Schnell, Carlton Richey, Alexander Kotsakis, Joseph A Santanello, Patrick Stegmann, John A. Gamon, Rehman Saifee Eon, Patricia Lawston Parker, Robert Swap
- Kimberly Slinski, Md Shahriar Pervez, Abheera Hazra, Karyn M. Tabor, Shraddhanand Shukla, Chris Shitote, James P Verdin, Amy McNally, Laura Harrison, Chris C Funk, Michael E Budde
- Science in Action: NASA Earth Observations Enabling Advances in Water Management II Oral
- Erin Urquhart, Craig R Ferguson, Perry Oddo, Kristen Marie Whitney, Kimberly Slinski
- Development of a New ICESat-2 Atmospheric Research Data Product
- Kenneth Edward Christian, Patrick A Selmer, Joseph Gomes, Stephen P Palm, Matthew J McGill, Natalie Midzak, Amanda Cresanti, Edward P Nowottnick, John E Yorks
- Alexander Kotsakis, Antonia Gambacorta, Narges Shahroudi, Robert I Rosenberg, Kenneth Edward Christian, Rachael Kroodsma, Patrick Stegmann, Jordan Caraballo-Vega, Dave Gershman, John M Blaisdell, Stephen D Nicholls, Edward P Nowottnick
- Snowfall Regime Classification: Application of a Machine Learning Classifier to Passive Microwave Observations
- Lisa Milani, Veljko Petković
- Improved Representation of High Latitude Mineral Dust Sources in the NASA GEOS Model
- Kathryn A. Moore, Peter Richard Colarco, Danny M. Leung, Arnold Downey, Frederik Hildebrand, Cliff Buck, Diego Gaiero, Christine Groot Zwaaftink, Lauren M Zamora, Janak Joshi, James King, Henrik Skov, Chris Marsay, Bess G Koffman, Michael R Kaplan, Jasper F Kok
- Sea Ice Anomalies, Glaciated Warm Clouds, and Elusive Ice Nuclei: Tracking the 2024 Arctic Melt Season with the NASA ARCSIX Mission
- Sebastian Schmidt, Patrick C Taylor, Amy Solomon, Alexei Korolev, Lauren M Zamora, Edward P Nowottnick, Thorsten Markus, Linette Boisvert, Ewan Crosbie, Armin Sorooshian, Jens Redemann, Hal B Maring
- Improving Surface Energy Flux Simulations with Remote Sensing Data Assimilation and Irrigation Representation
- Fan Wu, Kenneth J Davis, Patricia Lawston Parker, Yueqi Jiang
December 18
- Effect of Cyclones on Sea Ice and Snow Mass Balance in the Atlantic Arctic – A Case Study of Extreme Cyclone in March, 2019
- Siqi Liu, Shiming Xu, Fan Yanfei, Wenkai Guo, Binrui Liu, Jack Landy, Malin Johansson, Lu Zhou, Alek Petty, Deliang Chen
- Quantification of the Reasons for Stagnation of the Expected Recovery of Northern Hemisphere, Mid-Latitude Ozone
- Ross J Salawitch, Laura McBride, Peter von Der Gathen, Markus Rex, Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, Vitali Fioletov, Laila Howar, Diego G Loyola, Maxime Prignon, Ronald J van der A, Mark Weber, Brian Francis Bennett, Ingo Wohltmann, Martyn Chipperfield, Sandip Dhomse, Stacey M Frith, Jos de Laat, Emmanuel Mahieu, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Pam Wales, Jeannette Wild
- Can terrestrial water storage improve S2S hydrologic forecast skill in data-sparse regions to support early warning systems?
- Shraddhanand Shukla, Weston B Anderson, Benjamin Cook, Amy McNally, Kimberly Slinski, Abheera Hazra, Bailing Li
- An Analysis of Machine Learning-Driven Extinction Retrievals from Space-Based Lidar
- Natalie Midzak, John E Yorks, Patrick A Selmer, Amanda Cresanti, Kenneth Edward Christian, Natalia Roldan-Henao
- Evaluation of Spaceborne Lidar Estimates of Backscatter and Depolarization Ratio Using Machine Learning Denoising Methods
- Amanda Cresanti, John E Yorks, Patrick A Selmer, Kenneth Edward Christian, Natalia Roldan-Henao, Natalie Midzak, Zhanqing Li
- Future Directions for Aerosol–Cloud–Precipitation Interaction Research in the Arctic from the QuIESCENT 2024 Workshop (Invited)
- Lauren M Zamora, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Gijs de Boer, Radiance Calmer, Jean-Christophe Raut, Imogen Wadlow, Quentin Coopman, Edward Gryspeerdt
- Projections of Western US Montane Snow Water Equivalent: Total Snow Mass in Regions with Projection Agreement and Divergence (Invited)
- Justin M Pflug, Sujay V Kumar, Ben Livneh, Ethan D Gutmann, Sudershan Gangrade, Shih-Chieh Kao
- Quantifying Topographic Uncertainty on L-band InSAR Snowpack Measurements
- Jack Tarricone, Carrie Vuyovich, Micah James Johnson, Micah Sandusky, Mark Robertson, Hans-Peter Marshall, Randall Bonnell, Kelly Elder, Thomas H Painter, Curtis Beutler
- Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I Poster
- Randall Bonnell, Jack Tarricone, Devon Dunmire, Merritt Harlan
- Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow I Oral
- Joachim Meyer, Jack Tarricone, J Michelle Hu, Ross Palomaki
December 19
- Development of the Agriculture Land Information System (AgLIS)
- Jessica Marie Erlingis, Pang-Wei Liu, Sujay V Kumar, Alexander C Ruane, Luke Monhollon, Zhengwei Yang, Yanbo Huang, Rajat Bindlish, Meijian Yang, Shahryar Khalique Ahmad, James V Geiger, Gary Feng
- Ground-based validation of the operational satellite ozone products: an assessment of ozone recovery and processes impacting its short-term variability
- Irina V Petropavlovskikh, Brandon Noirot, Jeannette Wild, Eric Beach, Zhihua Zhang, Murty G Divakarla, Bryan J Johnson, Gary A Morris, Lawrence E Flynn, Tong Zhu, Patrick Cullis, Ken Pryor
- Comparative Analysis of Stratus Clouds in the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean: Implications for Mixed Phase Cloud Thinning
- Lauren M Zamora, Jasper F Kok, Amato T Evan, Kathryn A. Moore, Xia Li, Gregory V Cesana
- Snow depth from satellite laser altimetry: Recent progress with ICESat-2 and potential for EDGE
- David E Shean, Hannah Besso, Jessica D Lundquist, Nancy F Glenn, Carrie Vuyovich, Justin M Pflug, Benjamin Eaton Smith, Joe-Paul Swinski, Scott B Luthcke, Helen Amanda Fricker
- Practical AI Solutions for Hydrological Forecasting Poster
- Ziheng Sun, Nicoleta C Cristea, Annie Bryant Burgess, Justin M Pflug
- Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II Oral
- Randall Bonnell, Jack Tarricone, Devon Dunmire, Merritt Harlan,
- Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow II Poster
- Joachim Meyer, Jack Tarricone, J Michelle Hu, Ross Palomaki
- Feasibility Mapping of L-band InSAR for SWE retrievals
- Preetika Kaur, Ryan Webb, Jack Tarricone, Karl Rittger, Eric Gagliano, Daniel McGrath, Hans-Peter Marshall, Randall Bonnell, Richard R Forster, Elias J Deeb
