Tracking Wildfires from Space
October 9, 2025
As the climate warms, wildfires are becoming more severe and unpredictable. Shifts in wind, weather, and fuel conditions can cause fires to change direction or
ESSIC seeks to understand the relationships between Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land masses and biosphere, with an eye to the influence of human activities on Earth's coupled systems.
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Hunting Down Dead Zones in the Chesapeake Bay
October 6, 2025
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
Gulf of Alaska Hurricane-Force Low
September 29, 2025
Right on cue with the arrival of early autumn, a powerful hurricane-force low developed in the Gulf of Alaska and impacted southeastern Alaska last week.
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