Category: Features

Top row: Neil M. Donahue, Dalia Kirschbaum, Juan Lora Bottom row: Tracey Holloway, Claudia Tebaldi, Ines Azevedo

Welcome to the Fall 2024 ESSIC Seminar Series!

September 5, 2024

Welcome to the Spring 2024 semester! We are pleased to announce the return of ESSIC’s Seminar Series. We have a wonderful lineup of senior and junior scientists who are prepared to deliver some compelling presentations about their work and research both in-person and remotely.

Some of our speaker highlights include Dalia Kirschbaum, Director of the Earth Science Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Neil M. Donahue, Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Steinbrenner Institute as well as professor and AGU Fellow; Claudia Tebaldi, scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute and AGU Fellow; Ines Azevedo, associate professor at Stanford; Tracey Holloway, professor at UW–Madison and member of National Academy of Medicine; and Juan Lora, assistant professor at Yale.

Please click “Read more” for our full lineup and to add these events to your calendar now!

The interns and mentors who presented in-person for the 2024 CISESS Intern Presentations (underage interns are censored)

ESSIC Celebrates Summer Interns

September 4, 2024

On August 20-23, ESSIC hosted 52 interns both in-person and remotely for the Summer Intern Presentations. The interns, composed of both high school and undergraduate

ESSIC on State of the Climate in 2023

August 26, 2024

This week, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) released its annual State of the Climate report in 2023. Compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information,

Caption: Scientific crew on board of the Research Vessel (R/V) Point Sur. From left to right: Jonathan Gallegos (SciGlob), Ryan Stauffer (NASA Goddard), Anne Thompson (NASA Goddard Emeritus/UMBC), Niko Fedkin (NASA Goddard/NPP), Nikolay Balashov (UMD ESSIC/NASA Goddard), Martin Cadirola (EcoTronics), and Joshua Richards (UMBC).

Measuring Greenhouse Gasses at Sea

August 12, 2024

Caption: Scientific crew on board of the Research Vessel (R/V) Point Sur. From left to right: Jonathan Gallegos (SciGlob), Ryan Stauffer (NASA Goddard), Anne Thompson

Figure 1. LPSs installation at the St. Victor Mulabana Primary School. PHOTO: Daile Zhang

CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang Works to Mitigate Lightning Hazards in Uganda

August 5, 2024

Zhang visited Uganda to Help with the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems at Two Primary Schools in Kalangala Interviewer: Kate Cooney Originally posted on the

Severe Drought in Southern Africa

May 8, 2024

This article was written by Emily Cassidy and published on the NASA Earth Observatory website. It is reposted with permission. February 2024 A prolonged dry

ESSIC at Maryland Day 2024

May 5, 2024

On Saturday, April 27, ESSIC faculty and staff gathered to celebrate Maryland Day, the University of Maryland’s largest community outreach event! This was the 26th year that the university held the event, and the 24th time that ESSIC has participated.

The Potomac River is one of the many waterways susceptible to salinization. Credit: Sujay Kaushal.

UMD Geologist Joins Initiative to Tackle Growing Threat of Salt Contamination

February 20, 2024

Sujay Kaushal is part of a multi-institution effort to monitor the intrusion of saltwater into rivers close to the ocean.

ESSIC at the 2024 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

February 15, 2024

The American Geophysical Society (AMS) held its 104th annual meeting this month from January 28 to February 1 in Baltimore, Maryland. The following is a sample (not all-encompassing) of the ESSIC/CISESS talks, sessions, and posters given at the event. The bolded names are the ESSIC-affiliated authors.

Can meteorologists save the Chesapeake Bay?

January 22, 2024

When the nation’s leading experts in weather, water, and climate gather in Baltimore later this month for the annual conference of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), they will get a close-up view of the region’s fragile environment. The Chesapeake Bay area is under siege from a myriad of threats that are becoming more urgent with climate change, and its future economic and ecological vitality may depend in part on the ability of scientists to map out solutions to the bay’s complex and multiple stressors.