News & Highlights

Ameni Mkaouar (618/UMBC) is one of four scientists featured in the latest NASA GSFC Early Career Scientist Spotlights. The NASA Goddard Association of Postdoctoral and Early Career Scientists in...

The Earth Day Symposium (EDS) 2025 Planning Committee, led by Roshan Mishra, organized a wonderful, informative all-day event, held on Friday, April 25, 2025, in UMBC’s Physics building. The 9th...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Skylar Bayer, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office. Her talk is titled "Alaska Regional Office Habitat Conservation Division: Essential Fish Habitat Science...

Each year, the Earth Science Division’s Research and Analysis Program presents some of the year’s top discoveries, and for the year 2024, the selection features research from several GESTAR II...

Congratulations to Jianyu (Kevin) Zheng (613/UMBC), who has been selected to receive the 2025 Elsevier/JQSRT Richard M. Goody Award, in recognition of his outstanding achievements and...

While one may not think about greenhouse gases and landslides in the same context, the 2024 paper “Landslide Hazard Is Projected to Increase Across High Mountain Asia” led by Thomas Stanley...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Lyatt Jaeglé, Dept. of Atmospheric and Climate Science (University of Washington). Her talk is titled "Blowing snow over Arctic sea ice: Integrating modeling,...

Congratulations to Tamás Varnai (613/UMBC) on his promotion to Research Professor!  We asked Dr. Varnai for insight to his research goals as well as his own activities: "My research seeks...

Ivona Cetinić (616/MSU) is quoted in a recent New York Times article, "Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web," which also features Jeremy Werdell (616/NASA GSFC); both...

Congratulations to Dr. Ali Tokay (612/UMBC), Research Scientist with GESTAR II and affiliated faculty member of UMBC's Department of Geography and Environmental Systems (GES), who was selected as...