Tag: Oceanography

ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Research Scientist Christopher Brown recently wrote a blog entitled “Making Ecological Forecasts Operational: Some Lessons Learned By NOAA” for the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) website as a member of the EFI Knowledge Transfer and Partners Working Group. The contents are a consolidation of ‘lessons learned’ from a 2014 unpublished study conducted by NOAA’s Ecological Forecasting Roadmap.  The study compared ecological forecasting projects that had …

ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Research Scientist Christopher Brown was on the Executive Steering and Program Committees of last week’s First International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium (OSOS), a meeting jointly organized by NESDIS’ Center for Satellite Applications (STAR) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). Designed for users of operational satellite oceanographic data, products and applications, the conference’s objectives …

Ron Vogel, ESSIC / CISESS Senior Faculty Specialist, and NOAA colleague Michelle Tomlinson, taught a three-day intensive course at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center on utilizing oceanographic satellite data in environmental research and in coastal and marine decision-making applications. Designed for those with limited or no knowledge of remote sensing, the course includes a series of lectures on oceanographic remote sensing and hands-on software lab activities to help in the …

This semester, several University of Maryland (UMD) faculty members, including ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Professor Dr. Melissa Kenney, lead a 6-week workshop to expose graduate students to communicating their research outside of an academic setting. Tilted “SCoPE it out: Graduate Workshop on Fundamentals of Scholarly Communication and Public Engagement”,  Kenney’s co-instructors included Dr. Karen Lips, professor in the Department of Biology, Dr. Kathleen Vogel, associate professor …

This week, a poster co-authored by ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Dr. Alexey Mishonov will be presented at the 2019 EGU General Assembly, a gathering of international geoscientists in Vienna, Austria. The poster, titled “The Influence of the Deep Western Boundary Current on 231Pa & 230Th in the Northwest Atlantic”, reflects ongoing work to evaluate the influence of particle scavenging and the Deep Western Boundary Current on 231Pa and 230Th isotope distributions in the …

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) recently featured a study conducted by ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Dr. Alexey Mishonov and ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist James Reagan. The study, “Eddy‐Resolving In Situ Ocean Climatologies of Temperature and Salinity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean”, was published in the January 2019 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans and discussed the development of a new decadally averaged …

Recently, satellite water quality research results from Ron Vogel, ESSIC / CICS Senior Faculty Specialist, were presented to the Maryland State Legislature’s House Subcommittee on the Environment and Transportation.  The House Subcommittee has been preparing to write legislation on designating oyster sanctuaries and asked NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) to brief the Subcommittee on NOAA’s and UMD’s research and monitoring results on the benefits of oyster restoration …

In collaboration with NOAA colleagues Dr. Dan Seidov, Dr. Rost Parsons, and others, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Dr. Alexey Mishonov and ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist James Reagan recently published an article titled, “Regional Climatology of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean: High-Resolution Mapping of Ocean Structure and Change” in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The article discusses the Northwest Atlantic Regional Ocean Climatology, a recent …