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Gwirtz and Amatya lead Proposals Awarded Funding

Kyle Gwirtz (61A/UMBC) is PI on the proposal “Geomagnetic data assimilation with Kalman smoothing: fitting core dynamics to geomagnetic secular variation,” which was selected for funding by NASA’s...

Posted: July 31, 2025, 5:27 PM

Himes leads paper on use of Neural Networks to obtain Near-Real-Time Measurements

Michael Himes (614/MSU) led a recently published paper titled “Using neural networks for near-real-time aerosol retrievals from OMPS Limb Profiler measurements” in Atmospheric Measurement...

Posted: July 24, 2025, 6:57 PM

UMBC kicks off Science Career Development series at NASA GSFC

Dr. Don Engel (UMBC/CSST/CSEE) along with ESRA and UMBC personnel arranged for a consultant from Success in Science Career Coaching to meet with scientists in our UMBC NASA-funded cooperative...

Posted: July 15, 2025, 4:57 PM

GESTAR II Researchers publish as lead author and co-author

Over the past two months, GESTAR II researchers have published as lead author or co-author. Please peruse the following selected articles. Mukherjee, L. (613/UMBC), D. Wu, N....

Posted: July 7, 2025, 3:02 PM

Congratulations to Caterina Mogno on her Promotion!

Congratulations to Caterina Mogno (614/UMBC) on her promotion to Assistant Research Scientist! We caught up with Dr. Mogno to learn more about her research and how she spends her free time:...

Posted: July 2, 2025, 2:47 PM

Huemmrich discusses PACE’s OCI Data Regarding Worldwide Plant Health

Fred Huemmrich (618/UMBC) recently co-authored a Remote Sensing paper titled “Unveiling PACE OCI’s hyperspectral terrestrial data products” with Skye Caplan (616/GSFC). The PACE satellite...

Posted: June 24, 2025, 4:46 PM

Stanley contributes to NASA feature on Hurricane Season and NASA Tools

As most of us know, the Atlantic hurricane season has begun. NASA provides many tools for forecasters, all levels of government, disaster responders, just to name a few groups who need to know...

Posted: June 18, 2025, 1:49 PM

Dr. Compton Tucker elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Earth scientist Dr. Compton Tucker (UMBC/GSFC), who recently was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. "[His] research has spanned nearly 50 years at NASA’s Goddard Space...

Posted: June 18, 2025, 10:21 AM

Congratulations, Ph.D. and M.S. Graduates!

On May 21, 2025, the UMBC community celebrated its Graduate School Class of 2025! GESTAR II is happy to congratulate three students who are currently Graduate Research Assistants. Ph.D.,...

Posted: June 16, 2025, 5:30 PM

Earth Day Symposium 2025 Photo Gallery

UMBC's 9th Earth Day Symposium was held in late April 2025, and as we noted in a previous post, the day was full of presentations from scientists, professors, an industry representative, and...

Posted: June 11, 2025, 1:27 PM