News & Highlights

At the 11th Conference on International Perspective on Water Resources and the Environment, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 4-6, 2023, Nishan Kumar Biswas (617/UMBC) presented a talk on...

Akiko Elders (618/MSU) and colleagues, who are part of a collaborative project between NASA GSFC and MCC (The Millennium Challenge Cooperation) that aims to reduce global poverty, recently...

Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) recently contributed to NASA's Earth Observatory Item of the Day, "Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf Finally Breaks". Read more about how a specific chasm changed over 10+...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Susan Anenberg, Director, GW Climate and Health Institute Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George...

The following are recent publications by GESTAR II scientists: Jethva, H. (614/MSU) (2022), Assessing predictability of post-monsoon crop residue fires in Northwestern India, Front. Earth....

After a national search, UMBC has selected a new director of the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) Center II. In fall 2021, NASA awarded $72 million to establish the new...

On December 21, 2022, the UMBC community celebrated its Graduate School Class of 2022! Among the many graduates were three students whose advisors at UMBC are part of the Physics Department, JCET,...

Hiren Jethva (614/MSU) is lead author of a paper titled "Estimating Spectral Effects of Absorbing Aerosols on Backscattered UV Radiation." Initially published online in September, this paper is...

Elijah Orland (617/UMBC) was among the scientists who contributed to two separate but similar visualizations produced by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at GSFC. Both released on December...

Anthony Campbell (618/UMBC), who was with the NPP before joining GESTAR II as an Assistant Research Scientist, is the lead author of a publication in Nature, and this research is highlighted in a...