Tag: Oceanography

Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Isaac Moradi, has been appointed as ESSIC’s new seminar-series coordinator. Moradi will succeed Dr. Chris Brown as coordinator at the end of the Spring 2013 semester. Moradi joined ESSIC/CICS-MD in 2011 and has worked on developing climate data records (CRD’s) from microwave satellite data. His research interests include the application of satellite data to investigate the weather and climate, including visible, infrared and microwave remote sensing. Please …

On Thursday, April 11, 2013, the University of Maryland’s Council on the Environment hosted a “brown bag luncheon” at the UMCP STAMP Student Union in College Park, Maryland.  Chris Elfring, from the National Academy, was the guest speaker and discussed the new Gulf of Mexico program at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington D.C.

The new $500 million dollar program comes after the explosion of the Deep-water Horizon Drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers

Researcher: Bob Adler Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $125,000 Grant Study: “A TRMM/GPM Composite Climatology of Surface Precipitation.”   Researchers: Philip Arkin and Tony Busalacchi Grant Sponsor: NOAA Amount: $957,417 in additional funding, bringing the total award to $36,058,895 Grant Study: “Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites(CICS).”…

Researcher: Bob Adler Grant-Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $174,385 Grant-Study: “Real-time Global Flood Analyses Using Satellite Rainfall and Hydrological Models”   Researcher: Antonio Busalacchi, Eric Hackert, Ragu Murtugudde and Rong-Hua Zhang Grant-Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $184,213 Grant-Study: “Application of Scatterometry, Satellite Sea Surface Temperature, and Altimetry Measurements to Improved Understanding and …

  Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science continue to monitor the algal blooms that have been discoloring Chesapeake Bay waters during the last few weeks. These “red tides” occur in the lower Bay every summer, but have appeared earlier and across a wider area than in years past, likely due to last winter’s warmth and this summer’s heat. Red tides are caused by dense blooms of tiny marine plants called algae that contain reddish pigment. Algae are normal components of …

Most strive to work in a field for which we feel a strong passion. ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Mathew Sapiano is fortunate to work in a field that combines not only one, but two of his passions, statistics and precipitation.

Growing up, Dr. Sapiano was not certain what he wanted to do for a career. He said, laughing, that when he was much younger he actually wanted to be in a band. In fact, for several years during his teenage years he played drums with several