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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

GESTAR II Seminar Series, November 10 at 11:00am

Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Jose D. Fuentes, PSU Associate Director, GESTAR II and Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University. His talk is titled "Arctic Climate Change and...

Posted: November 3, 2022, 11:40 AM

Elders presents during Earth Week at Goddard

During Earth Week at Goddard, Oct. 11-14, 2022, five members of the Goddard community gave virtual presentations. On October 11th, GESTAR II member Akiko Elders (618/MSU) presented on the use of...

Posted: November 1, 2022, 10:35 AM

Roots and Hoffman awarded NASA FINNEST Grants

Congratulations to Maurice Roots and Kylie Hoffman! They have been selected for NASA's Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINNEST) award. Both are doctoral...

Posted: October 27, 2022, 5:45 PM