The five-year, $95 million cooperative agreement will support the center’s research efforts.
Dr. Zhanqing Li, Professor at ESSIC and University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science is a new recipient of the Distinguished University Professor…
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…
ESSIC Director and Distinguished University Professor Ellen Williams has been named Chair of the NASA Science Committee and member of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC).…
Two NASA Glaciologists, Kelly Brunt and Alex Gardner, recently sat down to discuss the history, challenges, and evolution of mapping the Antarctic continent and what…
A new paper by the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program, an initiative supported by the ESSIC-administered Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS),…
Figure 1 | Flooding in July 2021 caused mass evacuation in Weihui, Henan province, in China. Xin-Zhong Liang was recently published in Nature’s “News and…
As a part of American Geophysical Union’s 2021 Annual Meeting, AGU hosted a contest in which scientists submitted photos and videos depicting their science without…
Last month, researchers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD) Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) gathered to…
The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has brought tremendous opportunities to advance knowledge in earth science, most prominently by enabling…