News & Highlights

On February 10, 2023, the Climate and Radiation Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center held its annual winter party and awards ceremony. Two GESTAR II scientists were recipients of awards....

We caught up with several GESTAR II researchers and their posters at the SED Poster Party on January 26th, in particular, Emma Knowland (610.1/MSU), Myungje Choi (613/UMBC), Mei...

On Thursday, January 26, 2023, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the SED Poster Party was held onsite in the Building 28 atrium. Scientists from across the division plus Engineering shared...

Sarah Hansen of UMBC's Office of Institutional Advancement wrote a great piece on GESTAR II's new director, Dr. Charles Ichoku. Check it out here.

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...