Last June, NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, an ongoing effort to monitor changes in polar ice, was awarded a Robert H. Goddard award for Science Teams. On this team is Alek Petty, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, who has made substantial contributions as a member of the missision’s Project Science Office.
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.
Youtong Zheng, ESSIC/CISESS Post-doctoral Associate, has been awarded the prestigious Yuxiang Early Career Award in recognition of his research and achievements. This award is administered by the
A NOAA group including ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph Ferraro was recently awarded a NOAA Bronze Medal, the highest honor that can be granted by NOAA administrators. The group also included NESDIS recipients Al Wissman, Karen St. Germain, Mitch Goldberg, and Harry Cikanek, the Director of the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research.
ESSIC/CISESS Graduate Student Tianning Su was selected for a speaking award at the recent American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. He received the award from the judges at the 24th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS). His talk was entitled, “Retrieving Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals over Land by Constructing the Relationship of Spectral Surface Reflectances through Deep Learning: Application in Himawari-8.”
Youtong Zheng, ESSIC/CISESS Post-doctoral Associate, has been awarded the prestigious Yuxiang Early Career Award in recognition of his research and achievements. This award is administered by the Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (COAA) and the PIESAT Information Technology, Co., Ltd.
ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Alejandro Egido recently won the prestigious and highly competitive NOAA Dave Johnson Award, given annually to recognize the achievements of young professionals who have shown outstanding innovation in the use of satellite data for operational environmental applications. This award has been previously won by another ESSIC scientist, Scott Rudlosky.
