News & Highlights

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...

Congratulations to Adeleke Ademakinwa, who successfully defended his dissertation on Monday, February 2, 2026. His dissertation was titled "On the impact of three-dimensional radiative effects on...

Late 2025 and early 2026 brought more publications from many of our GESTAR II researchers, focusing on a variety of earth science topics. (Note, reading goes well with being snowed in!) We invite...

In November 2025, the 610 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award Winners were announced. Among them was Fadji Maina (617/UMBC), who received the Center Director's Award, "For significant contributions to...

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...

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...

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...

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...