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Orland contributes to Visualizations on Fire and Drought

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...

Posted: December 16, 2022, 3:04 PM

GESTAR II members publish as lead and co-authors

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.,...

Posted: December 14, 2022, 1:48 PM

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