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Climate Shift
From Eritrea to UMBC, this physicist is cultivating a diverse generation of climate scientists. It’s a nearly cloudless afternoon at UMBC in early October. A group of physics students and their...
Posted: December 10, 2019, 4:47 PM
We have liftoff! UMBC-developed mini satellite launched into space to study climate, air quality
In the early morning hours of Saturday, November 2, a few hundred guests at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility gathered at the VIP launch viewing site—a grassy pad near a large tent. Sitting on...
Posted: November 8, 2019, 4:52 AM
UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe develops new method to gauge atmosphere’s ability to clear methane, a potent greenhouse gas
New research by UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe and collaborators is shaping how scientists understand the fate of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in Earth’s atmosphere. Of the greenhouse gases, methane...
Posted: May 31, 2019, 6:02 PM
UMBC labs share four essentials for undergraduate research success
Undergraduate research at UMBC is booming. As Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) approaches, students across campus are preparing talks and posters on their projects with...
Posted: April 18, 2019, 6:38 PM
UMBC students take flight to study weather, pollution in multi-institution initiative
On November 16, Brian Carroll and Christiana Sasser ‘18, mechanical engineering, rose at 3:45 a.m. to drive to Lancaster, PA. After a briefing, they, a student from Millersville University, a...
Posted: December 14, 2017, 3:47 PM
UMBC scientists measure plant productivity from space, with applications from farming to forest conservation
Two researchers at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and colleagues have found that instrumentation on the International Space Station (ISS) can collect data measuring the...
Posted: November 1, 2017, 7:27 PM
UMBC dedicates new Earth and Space Institute, building on decades of NASA collaboration
On the third floor of the UMBC Physics Building, a glass sign with crisp white lettering announces UMBC’s newest research center: the Earth and Space Institute (ESI). The institute includes a...
Posted: September 19, 2017, 9:43 PM
Belay Demoz, director of JCET and leading climate scientist, elected as a fellow of the American Meteorological Society
Belay Demoz has been part of UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) since its founding more than 20 years ago, and has been serving as its director since 2014. In his decades as a...
Posted: September 8, 2017, 2:48 PM
UMBC’s Chris Shuman discusses trillion-ton Antarctic iceberg in U.S. and international media
After keeping scientists on their toes for weeks, the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula parted with a trillion-ton iceberg the size of Delaware on July 12. Chris Shuman, research...
Posted: July 19, 2017, 5:50 PM
UMBC’s Tamás Várnai helps identify surprising source of light flashes from Earth’s surface
Tamás Várnai, research associate professor at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, has been instrumental in determining the source of unusual flashes of light spotted in images...
Posted: June 7, 2017, 1:24 PM
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