A paper co-authored by ESSIC Research Scientist William Lau, Professor Zhanqing Li, scientist Weichen Tao, and AOSC Graduate Student Lei Zhang was recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Julie Nicely is principal investigator on a project, titled “A Diagnostic Package to Facilitate and Enhance Chemical Mechanism Implementations Within Regional and Global Atmospheric Chemistry Models”, that just earned an EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant for Chemical Mechanisms to Address New Challenges in Air Quality Modeling.
Professor James Farquhar of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Geology and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) has been named a 2020 UMD Distinguished University Professor. The title of Distinguished University Professor is the highest academic honor bestowed by the university. Considered a national achievement, this award given to just 7% of tenured faculty honors impact and significant contribution to the nominee’s field, knowledge, profession, and/or practice.
Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier has a new article about the importance of wetlands in mitigating the consequences of natural disasters. The paper, titled “Protecting wetlands for people: Strategic policy action can help wetlands mitigate risks and enhance resilience”, is in the June 2020 issue of Environmental Science and Policy.
The American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held last week, January 12 to 16, in Boston. There were significant contributions by ESSIC/CISESS scientists, documented here.
On Oct. 26th, the CISESS Lightning Team— ESSIC/CISESS scientists Mason Quick, Jonathan Wynn Smith, and Daile Zhang— went to the Mid-Atlantic ChaserCon in Richmond, Virginia. The conference was a forum for National Weather Service meteorologists, broadcast meteorologists, storm chasers and other professional and amateur meteorologists across the Mid-Atlantic area to network and discuss local severe storms. During the event, meteorologists promoted ideas to raise public awareness of severe …
Last month, NOAA/AMS/EUMETSAT held their annual Joint Satellite Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. ESSIC/CISESS had a large contingent of scientists at the meeting presenting posters and giving talks, listed below. ESSIC scientists’ talks included:
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Professor James Farquhar of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Geology and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences. Farquhar joins several ESSIC scientists who have received this honor, including Drs. Zhanqing Li and Dorothy Hall. The newest of UMD’s AGU Fellows, Farquhar’s research focuses on sulfur isotope …
Assistant Research Scientist Julie Nicely was the second author on a recent publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that outlines a way to quantify global hydroxyl radical (OH), a central oxidizing agent that can destroy hazardous air pollutants such as methane. The authors of the piece, titled “Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations”, have developed a …
Early this month, India’s coastline was struck by Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest cyclones India has experienced in 20 years, according to a press release by India’s Meteorological Department. Fani, pronounced “Foni”, brought winds estimated to be 152 mph, the strength of a Category 4 hurricane, and intense rainfall that threatened flooding and landslides. The impact of Cyclone Fani was devastating. At the time of this article’s publication, …
