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New UMBC/Los Alamos research on megafire smoke plumes clarifies what they contain, how they move, and their potential impacts
In recent years, large, intense wildfires, known as megafires, have increasingly caused severe damage to forests, homes, and crops. In addition to megafires fatally impacting humans and wildlife...
Posted: April 21, 2023, 8:02 AM
UMBC researchers listed among the world’s top 2% of most-cited scientists and engineers
More than 40 active UMBC researchers are listed among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists and engineers in an analysis recently published by Elsevier. These researchers include...
Posted: January 25, 2023, 11:47 AM
Scientists may be underestimating Arctic ecosystem changes, new UMBC research shows
The Arctic climate is changing, and it’s important to understand how. But scientists may be consistently misinterpreting a common metric used to determine how Arctic ecosystems are shifting in...
Posted: November 5, 2021, 6:04 PM
NASA awards $72 million for new UMBC-led Earth science research partnership
NASA has announced a major award of $72 million over three years for the new Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II center. UMBC serves as the lead for a national consortium...
Posted: October 28, 2021, 6:45 PM
UMBC’s Reem Hannun to co-lead urban air quality study with NOAA Climate Award
Over time, U.S. environmental regulations have successfully reduced emissions from combustion, such as car engines. That has decreased these emissions’ negative impact on air quality, particularly...
Posted: October 12, 2021, 9:01 PM
Hurricanes, well-being, and AI: START Awards set up UMBC researchers for success
Soon, Steve Guimond and his students will begin exploring a new angle of his hurricane research. They want to better understand the fundamental physics that drives hurricanes. Specifically, they...
Posted: August 6, 2021, 5:56 PM
UMBC’s Ryan Kramer confirms human-caused climate change with direct evidence for first time
A new analysis based on 16 years of observational data confirms that humans are heating the planet—a fact that had previously been inferred from climate models but not yet shown through direct...
Posted: April 12, 2021, 5:03 PM
On Thin Ice
For UMBC alum Nathan Kurtz, the only thing scarier than a surprise visit from a polar bear is a melting ice cap. When the Polarstern set sail from northern Norway in September 2019, it was...
Posted: December 2, 2020, 7:30 PM
NASA awards UMBC team $1.4M to develop AI that improves how computers process climate data from satellites
Data archives from NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), which collects data from satellites, aircraft, and ground instruments, currently contain about 31 petabytes...
Posted: October 26, 2020, 4:09 PM
UMBC once again ranks among the top 150 universities in federal research funding
The annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey from the National Science Foundation again includes UMBC as a top recipient of federal research support. The most recent...
Posted: February 28, 2020, 8:23 PM
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