News & Highlights

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Paquita Zuidema, Professor and Chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami. Her talk is titled "Smoke-cloud-land-meteorology couplings...

The paper "Phytoplankton composition from sPACE: Requirements, opportunities, and challenges," published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, is currently available online, prior to...

Congratulations to Lionel Arteaga Quintero (610.1/UMBC), who recently was promoted from Assistant Research Scientist to Associate Research Scientist within GESTAR II. We asked him about his roles...

In October 2023, the National Snow and Ice Data Center introduced a new site called "Ice Sheets Today." In its first post from December 2023, "Antarctic melt season off to fast start; Greenland...

Every year, the NASA Science Calendar is an anticipated product, and the 2024 issue is full of exceptional images with accompanying summaries, along with monthly highlights of individual or team...

Congratulations to Neranga Kaluappuwa Hannadige (Mentor: Prof. Pengwang Zhai) and Kevin (Jianyu) Zheng (Mentor: Prof. Zhibo Zhang), who celebrate their PhD degrees in Atmospheric Physics on Dec....

Robert Emberson (617/UMBC) is one of four scientists featured in the latest NASA GSFC Early Career Scientist Spotlights. This is compiled monthly by the NASA Goddard Association of Postdoctoral...

As the PACE launch nears, NASA Earth is profiling people involved in the mission. Read here about Ivona Cetinic' (616/MSU), her love of certain phytoplankton, her advice for aspiring...

Amin Dezfuli (610.1/UMBC) contributed to this Forbes Editors' Pick, "Next Door To COP28, Climate Change Is Testing The Limits For Survival." The author points out that, while the United Nations...

During the past few weeks, researchers with GESTAR II and UMBC have published as lead author or co-author of publications in various journals. Select citations are listed below. Gao, M., B. A....