Tag: Oceanography

ESSIC visiting research scientist Christopher Brown recently led the Fisheries Monitoring Workgroup (FMW) at the NOAA Northern Gulf Cooperative Institute at Mississippi State. The workshop brought together the principal investigators of three research projects funded by the Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment (NGOMEX) Program and Management Committees.  The intent of the workshop was to share information and progress. Brown co-leads the FMW….

In recent years, the Caribbean region has faced challenges from oil spills and an influx of floating sargassum seaweed. Experts from United Nations entities, academia, governments, private companies and international initiatives met at the Ministry of Education in Mexico City in early May to discuss the development of a region-wide system for monitoring and forecasting oil spills and sargassum. The workshop was organized in part by GEO Blue Planet, an initiative that ensures the sustained …

ESSIC associate research scientist Liqing Jiang was part of a development team that produced the award-winning online data submission system, Send2NCEI.  The system developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) automates data management and submissions for the environmental data the agency hosts.  Jiang’s federal colleagues on the Send2NCEI’s development team received the NOAA Bronze …

ESSIC assistant research scientist Alexey Mishonov published an article in Geophysical Research Letters on decadal patterns of suspended particles in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean.  The study found a long-term trend in which high particulate areas occur where the surface water kinetic energy is high.  Particulate concentration is very low throughout most of the ocean….

ESSIC senior faculty specialist Emily Smail created an informational video about the CoastWatch utilities tool. This tool helps with using satellite products to better understand and manage our oceans and coasts. The utilities are for viewing, analyzing and converting satellite image files, and the video will be on the CoastWatch website….

A group of ESSIC scientists participated in the American Geophysical Union 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting this week in Portland. ESSIC participants presented talks and posters and spoke on panels. Senior faculty specialist Emily Smail also helped organize three of the meeting’s sessions. …

ESSIC post-doctoral associate Korak Saha has a new article due for the April 2018 issue of Atmospheric Research. It examines data from the boundary layer for a field study during India’s monsoon season. …

The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Water Team, which supports the NOAA Water Initiative (NWI), held a planning workshop on Jan. 30 in College Park.  ESSIC assistant research scientist Naiyu Wang was a participant, as were NOAA CoRP/SCSB researchers and ESSIC visiting scientists Christopher Brown, Ralph Ferraro, Huan Meng, and Thomas Smith….