GESTAR II Annual Open House Event at NASA Goddard
On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, GESTAR II held its annual Open House event at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Building 33, Room H114, to acknowledge several highlights of its fourth year. We were grateful that Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, Director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA GSFC, could attend and speak with the audience about the importance of Earth Sciences and support for the research being conducted. The event also included encouraging remarks from Dr. Karl Steiner, UMBC, Vice President for the Division of Research & Creative Achievement; Dr. Charles Ichoku, UMBC, Director of GESTAR II, expressed his appreciation for the hard work and dedication of all GESTAR II researchers and personnel.
GESTAR II members displayed their posters to share research discoveries along with results, some of which invite further exploration. We thank those who shared their posters with us at this event, which civil servants, visiting fellows, colleagues, and student interns also attended. Thank you also to our volunteers and staff for helping with setting up and providing refreshments and light fare, in particular, Domonique Footes (SURA) and Camilla Hyman-Waters (UMBC).
We'd like to recognize the following researchers for contributing to the Open House:
Doyeon Ahn (614/UMBC)
Virginia Buchard (610.1/UMBC)
Allison Collow (610.1/UMBC)
Amin Dezfuli (610.1/UMBC)
Ivona Cetinic (616/Morgan)
Fred Huemmrich (618/UMBC)
Magda Kuzmicz-Cieslak (61A/UMBC)
Jae Lee (613/UMBC)
Jasper Lewis (612/UMBC)
Siobhan Light (619/SURA)
Tesfa Meshesha (616/UMBC)
Caterina Mogno (614/UMBC)
Jude Salinas (613/UMBC)
Viral Shah (610.1/Morgan)
Inia Soto Ramos (616/Morgan)
Thomas Stanley (617/UMBC)
Sarah Strode (614/Morgan)
Pamela Wales (610.1/Morgan)
Eun-Gyeong Yang (610.1/UMBC)
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Posted: August 19, 2025, 1:28 PM
