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Two Years After the 2010 Haitian Earthquake: Observations by a member of JCET Faculty
Marko H. Bulmer is the Director of the Geophysical Flow Observatory, JCET at UMBC. On January 4, 2012, I traveled to Haiti to join the Brazilian Military Contingent contributing to the United...
Posted: February 15, 2012, 7:49 PM
U.S. Scientists Say Environment Canada’s Cuts Threaten the Future of Science and International Agreements
In August 2011, hundreds of Environment Canada scientists and staff working on environmental monitoring received notice their positions were targeted for elimination. Ray Hoff, Professor of...
Posted: February 15, 2012, 4:22 PM
Giant Asteroid Vespa as Cold as Ice
Is there water on Vespa? Timothy Stubbs and his colleague, Yongli Wang think so. In a NASA special Web feature Stubbs talks about their findings. “”Near the north and south poles, the...
Posted: January 25, 2012, 8:03 PM
Paradise is Not Lost, It’s Just Different
All is not lost, at least when it comes to plant species richness, the number of different plants, in an ecosystem. Erle Ellis and his colleagues suggest in their recent paper, All is Not Loss:...
Posted: January 25, 2012, 5:02 PM
UMBC Students’ Research Makes the Grade
Saturday, October 22, over 350 students, faculty members, and guests gathered at UMBC for the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences. Fourteen UMBC...
Posted: November 18, 2011, 9:19 PM
UMBC Researcher Proposes That Moon Dust is the Answer
According to NASA, for 40 years, what created the Moon’s ionosphere was a puzzle until Tim Stubbs an Assistant Research Scientist at UMBC working at the Goddard Space Flight Center published a...
Posted: November 15, 2011, 1:56 PM
UMBC Gains National Recognition for its Technology Programs
ABC2 interviewed UMBC’s Bill LaCourse, Interim Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences yesterday about UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program.
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Posted: November 9, 2011, 5:04 PM
Geography & Environmental Systems Seminar: “Streamflow, Floods and Climate Change” (11/2)
The Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar presents Robert Hirsch, research hydrologist, U.S. Geological Service, who will present “Streamflow, Floods and Climate Change.” The lecture will be...
Posted: October 26, 2011, 9:25 PM
Former UMBC Visiting Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dan Shechtman, a former visiting professor at UMBC, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week. Shlomo Carmi, then dean of the College of Engineering, recruited Shechtman in 1997, and the...
Posted: October 10, 2011, 4:01 PM
Two Catonsville Companies in the Running for “Hottest Tech in Town”
In early July, the Greater Baltimore Tech Council launched a search for companies with the most unique, innovative and creative technologies. A panel of judges reviewed the applications and...
Posted: October 4, 2011, 6:51 PM
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