Last week, the Grand Challenges team, led by ESSIC Director Ellen Williams, met with Matt Fleming, Executive Director of the Resilience Authority of Annapolis and…
Prof. Karen McKinnon University of California, Los Angeles Monday September 18, 2023, 2 PM ET Abstract: One of the clearest symptoms of climate change…
The University of Maryland today awarded $30 million to 50 projects through its Grand Challenges Grants Program, an institution-wide initiative to tackle major societal issues. The…
A desiccating lakebed of the Great Salt Lake. Photo taken by Dorothy Hall, October 2019. Dorothy Hall is first author on a paper recently published…
A screenshot from Patricia Parker’s interview [link] A screenshot from Weston Anderson’s interview [link] ESSIC Scientists Patricia Parker and Weston Anderson recently participated in the…
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist C. Max Stevens is co-author on a new paper in Nature that reveals summer and winter temperature changes through the last 11,000 years, a…
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Alexey Mishonov is co-author on a new paper in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences titled “Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans”. In…
A UMD alum and professor co-authored a paper about the reduction in the thickness of Earth’s protective ozone layer that followed the Australian wildfires. The…
This article is adapted from an article originally published by NASA. Hurricanes threaten North American coastlines every year, and they appear to be intensifying as…
UMD-led study maps the forests of the American Midwest to monitor carbon storage over millennia. Old-growth eastern hemlock tree. CREDIT: Jody Peters When plants breathe…