This article was written by Georgia Jiang and originally published in Maryland Today. No, rubber doesn’t stop lightning, and your cell phones doesn’t attract bolts…
In January 2022, ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang won a CISESS Seed Grant to evaluate NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLMs) on the GOES-16 and -17 Satellites…
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang has published a new book titled Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning with Springer. The book, which Zhang…
Daile Zhang helped the NSF-funded LEE field campaign in Oswego, NY this week. The LEE project aims to study the electrification mechanism of the lake…
The ESSIC/CISESS Lightning Group presented five oral talks and four posters (two at the Student Conference) at the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.…
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang is the first author of a presentation that was given at the 36th International Conference on Lightning Protection in Cape Town,…
The ESSIC/CISESS Lightning Team members Guangyang Fang and Daile Zhang recently attended the 2022 Mid-Atlantic ChaserCon, a conference for meteorologists at National Weather Service, broadcast…
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Daile Zhang was invited to serve on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network…
Figure: Snapshot of (Left panel) Dr. Zhang’s lightning observation video; (Right panel) Dr. Arulraj’s research results presented at the 2022 NOAA CoRP Science Symposium. CISESS…
Geostationary Lightning Mapper Flash Extent Density (FED) imagery of the storm over the Mid-Atlantic region On Tuesday, July 12, the College Park area was ravaged by three…