News & Highlights

Several GESTAR II members authors of PACE paper in RSE

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

Posted: January 16, 2024, 3:45 PM

Congratulations to Arteaga Quintero on Promotion

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...

Posted: January 4, 2024, 10:40 AM

Shuman contributes to NSIDC Ice Sheets Today

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...

Posted: January 3, 2024, 9:56 AM

Congratulations to Graduates Neranga and Kevin!

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....

Posted: December 20, 2023, 2:41 PM

Emberson featured in GSFC Early Career Scientist Spotlights

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...

Posted: December 15, 2023, 10:14 AM

Cetinic profiled in People of PACE feature

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...

Posted: December 14, 2023, 9:59 AM

GESTAR II researchers publish as lead and co-authors

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....

Posted: December 8, 2023, 1:32 PM

GESTAR II Awardees at GMAO Peer Awards Ceremony

On Thursday, December 7, the 2023 Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) Peer Awards Ceremony was held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Among the awardees were two GESTAR II...

Posted: December 7, 2023, 4:23 PM