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GESTAR II Speakers at UMBC GES Seminar

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...

Posted: December 13, 2022, 3:09 PM

GESTAR II members recognized at 610AT Awards Ceremony

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!...

Posted: December 9, 2022, 1:44 PM

Seegers' TEDx Miami Talk Released for Viewing

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....

Posted: December 8, 2022, 5:01 PM

Hasan Successfully Defends Thesis (Advisor: Dr. Guimond)

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...

Posted: December 7, 2022, 11:49 AM

Zhang's proposal awarded funding from NSF

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...

Posted: December 2, 2022, 1:46 PM

Felikson helps to lead the NASA Earth Information System

In 2020, Denis Felikson (615/MSU), then a new Research Scientist with the GESTAR Cooperative Agreement, was involved with the initial formulation of a project called the Earth Information System,...

Posted: December 1, 2022, 1:38 PM

Ganeshan's proposal selected and article published

Kudos to Manisha Ganeshan (613/MSU)! Dr. Ganeshan recently published a lead author paper in JGR-Atmos.: Ganeshan, M., Y. Yang (GSFC), and S. P. Palm (2022). "Impact of Clouds and Blowing Snow on...

Posted: November 21, 2022, 12:14 PM

Shuman lead scientist on Greenland Ice Sheet hyperwall

In conjunction with a related Nature article, the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) produced a hyperwall that demonstrates the destabilization of the Zachariae...

Posted: November 11, 2022, 11:29 AM

GESTAR II members publish first and co-author papers

Throughout the past two weeks, several GESTAR II members have been lead or co-authors on peer-reviewed articles from a variety of disciplines and topics. Weir, B. (610.1/MSU), Oda, T., Ott, L....

Posted: November 11, 2022, 10:46 AM