By: Media Relations Contact: Kimbra Cutlip, kcutlip@umd.eduPublisher: University of Maryland Department of PhysicsPublished: February 7, 2021 Ellen Williams is an optimist. And she believes in the…
Steam rises from cooling towers at the coal-fired John E. Amos Power Plant in West Virginia on the Kanawha River as pollution from smoke stacks…
The Potomac River, viewed from the Maryland side near Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia Sujay Kaushal, ESSIC and Department of Geology Associate Professor, and Shuiwang Duan,…
A new NASA Goddard feature highlights how the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2), originally intended to precisely measure the height of the…
Play Video For the last few years, life on the West Coast of the United States has been marked by wildfires. Most recently, August lightning…
In July, ESSIC and CISESS Director Ellen Williams participated in the National Academies Workshop on Enhancing Federal Clean Energy Innovation, a series supported by The…
Last week, The National Geographic Society announced the 2020 recipients of the Young Explorers Grant, a prestigious grant awarded to young people, between the ages…
There might be a link between climate and the spread of COVID-19, finds a study co-authored by ESSIC Director Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Assistant Research Scientist Augustin…
A group of volunteers including ESSIC scientist Fernando Dos Santos are putting together an interactive map that tracks the spread of COVID-19 across Brazilian states…
On March 2, 2020, ESSIC will be welcoming Dr. John Mather, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, as a speaker in the Spring 2020 ESSIC…