News & Highlights

Stephen Guimond (612/UMBC) and his co-authors recently had their JAMES publication "The Dynamics of Megafire Smoke Plumes in Climate Models: Why a Converged Solution Matters for Physical...

These photos are just a sample of the many interactions and presentations that occurred during UMBC's Earth Day Symposium, including several GESTAR II graduate research assistants, who are working...

Held on Friday, April 21, 2023, this year's Earth Day Symposium began with opening remarks by Dr. Zhibo Zhang (UMBC) and introductions by Kylie Hoffman (Ph.D. student, UMBC), one of the...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Chuntao Liu, professor in atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. His talk is titled "Connections between convection and the stratosphere in...

In early 2002, iceberg B22-A broke away from Thwaites Glacier and in 2012, it became grounded until recently, when it began to drift northwest in autumn 2022. Glaciologist Christopher Shuman...

On April 5, 2023, UMBC held its Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony, where "President Valerie Sheares Ashby honored community members who live our vision of redefining excellence in...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Joe Turk, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. At JPL, he is a member of the Radar Science and Engineering section. His talk is...

Earth scientists and researchers, the Landsat community, the NASA community, and countless others are remembering physicist, engineer, pioneer, and patent holder Virginia T. Norwood, the Mother of...

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. David Turner, NOAA. At NOAA, he is Lead, Model Assessment Section, Assimilation Development Branch, and Manager, NOAA Atmospheric Science for Renewable Energy...

In the NASA PACE Mission's blog entry titled "The Journey of a Carbon Atom: From Space, NASA's PACE Mission Detects Carbon in the Sky, Land, and Sea," Erica McNamee, Science Writer at NASA's...