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American Meteorological Society honors JCET Director
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...
September 11, 2017
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9:50 AM
"My Journey from the Horn of Africa to NASA!"
Dr. Belay Demoz, Professor/Director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, presented a Maniac lecture entitled, "My Journey from the...
September 8, 2017
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9:27 AM
Coverage in both US 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...
July 28, 2017
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8:47 AM
Atmospheric Physics Research
Lipi Mukherjee, Ph.D. student in atmospheric physics at UMBC, has received the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF), which will provide funding to support her research for up to three...
June 23, 2017
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8:56 AM
Dr. Alan Yeakley, Chair of the Geography and Environmental Systems (GES), and Dr. Suzanne Braunschweig of GES visited the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, May 19, 2017. The visit was...
June 14, 2017
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9:34 AM
Dr. Susan Hoban
Applications have been reviewed for the JCET Graduate Student Fellowship for 2017-18. Five applications were received. Based upon the recommendations of the selection committee, Mr. Anin...
May 31, 2017
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11:45 AM
NASA’s EPIC View Spots Flashes on Earth
NASA has released a public feature on JCET research that was recently accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. The feature and a one-minute movie can be viewed...
May 19, 2017
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9:03 AM
110-mile rift in the Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf
Christopher Shuman, a University of Maryland, Baltimore County researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Center, believes the branch likely is a signal of larger change. “This is probably a sign of...
May 10, 2017
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11:29 AM
March for Science raises public trust, support for discovery
Almost five decades ago, Fred Huemmrich marched on the first Earth Day as a Pittsburgh high school student. Back then, standing up against air pollution was a controversial act, he remembers....
April 24, 2017
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8:49 AM
Something to CHEW On (Climate, Health, Ecosystems, Weather)
Susan Hoban (JCET faculty) and Alexandra St. Pé (JCET graduate student) have been awarded a grant from the University of Maryland Center of Environmental Science for a project entitled "Something...
April 21, 2017
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10:54 AM