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In November 2025, the 610 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award Winners were announced. Among them was Fadji Maina (617/UMBC), who received the Center Director's Award, "For significant contributions to...
Posted: January 20, 2026, 1:27 PM
At the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting, held in mid-December in New Orleans, LA, Lipi Mukherjee (613/UMBC) was the recipient of an AGU Faculty Travel Grant. The AGU Faculty Travel Grant is "an NSF-funded...
Posted: January 15, 2026, 6:09 PM
Congratulations to Jianyu "Kevin" Zheng (613/UMBC) on his promotion to Assistant Research Scientist! We caught up with Dr. Zheng to learn more about his research and his hobbies outside of...
Posted: January 12, 2026, 11:43 AM
Applications are open for the 10-week-long internship program, NSF REU EXPLORE 2026 @ UMBC. The details on EXPLORE @ UMBC can be found on the website, https://explore.umbc.edu/, as well as this...
Posted: December 19, 2025, 4:53 PM
The Pacific Northwest of the United States has experienced incredibly heavy rainfall since early December 2025, due to atmospheric rivers. As the deluge continued, major rivers overflowed and...
Posted: December 18, 2025, 5:15 PM
ESRA would like to congratulate our team members who were recognized at the 2025 Service Awards Ceremony, held on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at the UMBC Retrievers Activity Center. Cathy...
Posted: December 17, 2025, 12:11 PM
Paul Newman (610/UMBC) is a co-chair of the Hunga Volcanic Eruption Atmospheric Impacts Report project, along with co-chairs Drs. Yunqian Zhu (Univ. of Colorado, CIRES), William Randel (National...
Posted: December 9, 2025, 5:07 PM
GESTAR II researchers have had several articles published in the past few months, and we invite you to peruse the select citations listed here. Sayer, A. M. (616/UMBC), Cairns, B.,...
Posted: December 5, 2025, 3:47 PM
On November 10, 2025, Emily Faber, Atmospheric Physics, successfully defended her dissertation titled "Advancing Dust Emission Modeling: Physical Parameterization Improvements and Impacts." Her...
Posted: November 21, 2025, 9:15 AM
This fall, two GESTAR II researchers have shared exciting news about the LHASA model’s inclusion in a U.N. publication and how landslides are studied from space in a NASA Earth Observatory...
Posted: November 11, 2025, 4:56 PM