News & Highlights

GESTAR II Seminar Series, March 14th at 11am

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Yixin ‘Berry’ Wen, Department of Geography, University of Florida. Her talk is titled "Creating synergy between satellite and radar precipitation measurements...

Posted: March 11, 2024, 1:32 PM

Congratulations to Prive' on Promotion

Congratulations to Nikki Prive' (610.1/MSU), who has been promoted from Associate Research Scientist to Senior Research Scientist within GESTAR II! We asked her about her role and research as well...

Posted: March 8, 2024, 3:37 PM

GESTAR II researchers publish as lead and co-authors

GESTAR II researchers have published as lead author and co-author during the past few weeks. Here are some select citations. McGrath-Spangler, E. L. (610.1/MSU), N. C. Prive' (610.1/MSU), B....

Posted: March 1, 2024, 4:18 PM

Zhou receives AAS Editor's Award

Congratulations to Yaping Zhou (613/UMBC) who received a 2024 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) Editor's Award "for her meticulous contributions to a 2023 article, which significantly...

Posted: March 1, 2024, 9:55 AM

Shuman co-authors AGU Eos article on Landsat and LEAP

Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) is a co-author of a recent article published in Eos, the award-winning science news magazine published by AGU. The article is titled "Monitoring Polar Ice Change in...

Posted: February 27, 2024, 2:38 PM

GESTAR II Seminar Series, February 27th at 1:00pm

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Karin Ardon-Dryer, Department of Geosciences, Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech University. Her talk is titled "Dust in the air, a bigger problem than we...

Posted: February 22, 2024, 11:14 AM

Orland contributes to Earth Observatory Image of the Day

"Catastrophic wildfires scorched" parts of Chile in early February 2024. "NASA's Earth Applied Sciences Disasters program area was activated to support partners responding to the event. As new...

Posted: February 19, 2024, 4:50 PM

UMBC News publishes HARP2 and PACE feature

The UMBC News article "UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA's PACE mission" covers the journey and excitement of arriving at the PACE launch, with the HARP2...

Posted: February 16, 2024, 3:26 PM

Sujung Go profiled in "Conversations with Goddard"

Sujung Go (613/UMBC) is profiled as part of NASA's "Conversations with Goddard". The interview "Sujung Go: Helping Humanity and the Environment" is an insightful Q&A on Dr. Go's education...

Posted: February 14, 2024, 2:53 PM