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Mukherjee awarded AGU Travel Grant
At the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting, held in mid-December in New Orleans, LA, Lipi Mukherjee (613/UMBC) was the recipient of an AGU Faculty Travel Grant. The AGU Faculty Travel Grant is "an NSF-funded...
Posted: January 15, 2026, 6:09 PM
Congratulations to Jianyu Zheng on his Promotion
Congratulations to Jianyu "Kevin" Zheng (613/UMBC) on his promotion to Assistant Research Scientist! We caught up with Dr. Zheng to learn more about his research and his hobbies outside of...
Posted: January 12, 2026, 11:43 AM
Lewis, Cetinić, and Sayer as mentors with NSF-funded REU EXPLORE 2026 at UMBC
Applications are open for the 10-week-long internship program, NSF REU EXPLORE 2026 @ UMBC. The details on EXPLORE @ UMBC can be found on the website, https://explore.umbc.edu/, as well as this...
Posted: December 19, 2025, 4:53 PM
NASA's DRCS & LHASA utilized for US PNW weather hazards, Dec 2025
The Pacific Northwest of the United States has experienced incredibly heavy rainfall since early December 2025, due to atmospheric rivers. As the deluge continued, major rivers overflowed and...
Posted: December 18, 2025, 5:15 PM
Congrats to our ESRA Personnel on Service Awards
ESRA would like to congratulate our team members who were recognized at the 2025 Service Awards Ceremony, held on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at the UMBC Retrievers Activity Center. Cathy...
Posted: December 17, 2025, 12:11 PM
Newman is co-chair of report on Hunga volcanic eruption, and contributed to NASA article on ozone hole
Paul Newman (610/UMBC) is a co-chair of the Hunga Volcanic Eruption Atmospheric Impacts Report project, along with co-chairs Drs. Yunqian Zhu (Univ. of Colorado, CIRES), William Randel (National...
Posted: December 9, 2025, 5:07 PM
Fall Publications led or co-authored by GESTAR II Researchers
GESTAR II researchers have had several articles published in the past few months, and we invite you to peruse the select citations listed here. Sayer, A. M. (616/UMBC), Cairns, B.,...
Posted: December 5, 2025, 3:47 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Faber
On November 10, 2025, Emily Faber, Atmospheric Physics, successfully defended her dissertation titled "Advancing Dust Emission Modeling: Physical Parameterization Improvements and Impacts." Her...
Posted: November 21, 2025, 9:15 AM
LHASA model in UNFCCC COP30 WIPO Green and NASA EO feature
This fall, two GESTAR II researchers have shared exciting news about the LHASA model’s inclusion in a U.N. publication and how landslides are studied from space in a NASA Earth Observatory...
Posted: November 11, 2025, 4:56 PM
GESTAR II Seminar Series, Thursday, November 13th, 11:00am
We hope you will join us for our final talk of the year, a virtual seminar by Dr. Solomon Bililign, Professor, Department of Physics, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University...
Posted: November 10, 2025, 4:12 PM
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