News & Highlights

UMBC's 10th Earth Day Symposium was held during Earth Week on April 24, 2026, and this year's theme was "Extreme Events in a Changing World." The morning featured talks addressing extreme events,...

James Allen (616/MSU) is among the four scientists featured in the latest NASA GSFC Early Career Scientist Spotlights. The NASA Goddard Association of Postdoctoral and Early Career Scientists...

On April 21, 2026, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) co-hosted the Congressional Showcase, “Igniting Discovery: How NASA Funding Advances American Science” at the Hart...

Colten Peterson's (613/UMBC) proposal “Enhancing PREFIRE Cloud Products and Science with Cloud Phase Determination and Liquid Cloud Property Retrievals” recently was selected for funding from the...

In early April 2026, Taylor West and Kylie Hoffman, both GESTAR II Graduate Research Assistants and members of the Demoz Group at UMBC, defended their doctoral theses.  On April 2nd, Taylor...

The Code 613 Peer Award Ceremony and Luncheon was held in early March at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Lazaros Oreopoulos, Chief of the Climate and Radiation Laboratory (613), announced...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Fadji Maina, GESTAR II Associate Research Scientist, UMBC/617. Her talk is titled "Advancing Hydrological Estimates Through Multivariate Data Assimilation."...

In June 2024, Ghassan Taha was a Co-Investigator on the proposal, "The Stratosphere Troposphere Response using Infrared Vertically-Resolved Light Explorer (STRIVE)," led by Dr. Lyatt Jaegle'...

On February 4, 2026, the Code 610 Atmospheres (610AT) Peer Awards Ceremony 2026 was held at NASA Goddard. Awardees were recognized in the following categories: Engage, Differentiate, Execute, and...

The 106th American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting was held in Houston, TX, January 25-29, 2026. This year, the meeting's theme was "Fast and Slow Thinking: The Human Factor in a Rapidly...