Highlights

ESSIC Postdoctoral Associate Kathryn Moore was recently featured in a NASA Early Career Spotlight, where she spoke about her career beginnings, research focus, and impactful

ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Joseph Finlon is the newest recipient of the Field Campaign Support Award, one of the 2026 NASA Goddard Space Flight

CISESS Scientist Liqing Jiang, a chemical oceanographer specializing in the study of inorganic carbon cycling and ocean acidification in the global oceans, is one of

Image: Guangyang Fang (right) provides immersive educational experiences to high school students at a Teen Science Café 1/15/26 in Alexandria, VA (photo credit: Kate Cooney).

Department of Geographical Sciences researchers were named Thursday to a NASA satellite mission concept that builds on the UMD-led GEDI mission, currently measuring forest structure

Figure: The 2014–2023 decadal mean components of the global carbon budget, presented for (left) fossil CO2 emissions and (right) land-use change emissions. An international team

Figure: (Top) Root-mean-square error between predictions (from the model trained with both contaminated and non-contaminated data) and ERA5-derived TCWV. The purple boxes highlight areas with

ESSIC scientist Justin Pflug recently participated in the AskScience “Ask Me Anything” series, a Reddit project hosted by University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical,

by Guangyang Fang   On October 23, 2025, Guangyang Fang and CISESS interns Ian Way and Samuel Wiggins conducted a drone training and 3D scanning

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Guangming Zheng and colleagues at NASA and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science were recently featured in an article published in the Bay