News & Highlights

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...

Recently, several GESTAR II members were lead author or co-author on publications related to ozone and carbon. A selection of these are listed below. Clark, J. Blake (616/UMBC), Mannino, A.,...

On December 7, 2022, the Fall 2022 Geography and Environmental Systems (GES) Seminar at UMBC featured GESTAR II E-lightning Presentations (available here). Below is a list of the speakers and...

On December 6, 2022, the Code 610-Atmospheres (610-AT) Peer Awards Ceremony was held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Among the awardees were several GESTAR II members. Congratulations to all!...

In May 2022, Bridget Seegers (616/MSU) gave a TEDx Miami talk. Titled "Plankton, Space, Earth, and Us," her talk focused on the importance of plankton and why scientists study it with satellites....

Congratulations to Badrul Hasan, who recently graduated with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Stephen Guimond, associate research professor of physics, was his advisor and Meilin Yu, associate...

Ivona Cetinic (616/MSU) contributed to the Earth Observatory's Item of the Day for December 3, 2022, titled "Breathing Life into the Ocean." 

Zhibo Zhang, UMBC Physics Professor and Senior Research Scientist in GESTAR II, recently was awarded funding for a three-year grant from NSF. The research will focus on dust and pollution and its...