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Last week, ESSIC hosted retired NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) scientist Dr. Norman Grody for the Seminar Series, ESSIC’s weekly event celebrating the center’s vast research.  Dr. Grody’s seminar drew over 60 in-person attendees and 30 online attendees, making it the most well-attended seminar of the year so far. Dr. Grody brought in a homemade microwave radiometer, which he constructed using information and components available on the Internet.  He was able …

Last week, ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier attended a Coastal Resilience Briefing located at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.  The briefing, titled “Using Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce the Risk of Flooding, Save Tax Dollars, and Provide Important Habitat”, featured a panel of experts alongside the premiere of their new promotional video.  Sutton-Grier, an expert on coastal resilience, represented the University of Maryland alongside the event hosts …

Staff from NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW), an initiative supported by the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)-administered Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), just co-authored a new publication on high-latitude coral bleaching in Australia in Global Change Biology. The piece, “Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high-latitude eastern Australia”, examined the effect of the 2016 mass coral bleaching event on high latitude …

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an article in the Hindu Business Line titled “How forecast of extreme rainfall events can be improved”. The article discusses quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF), a weather forecasting method that combines model forecasts of large-scale features with known past values of temperature, humidity, and winds at different pressure levels from the surface to the upper atmosphere.  QPF is very economical compared to running very …

ESSIC Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist Phil Arkin was recently interviewed for a documentary on climate change data by Cemil Alyanak, a local cinematographer. The documentary, working title “Climate Data: Fact or Fabrication”, argues that climate data is fact.  In the film, he will attempt to expose how certain media and denier advocates are the ones actually fudging or selectively presenting data.  As of now, the film has no specific release date. Arkin conducts research …