The "Seeing Science: Photography, Science, and Visual Culture" research forum examined imaging and visualization methods that support new scientific insights across diverse areas of research.
“We see cases where there’s persistent trash and abandoned buildings, [creating] lots of small bodies of water, which are just great for this mosquito,” Biehler tells the Washington Post.
Chris Swan talks about the importance of understanding urban biodiversity issues before developers come in and start building on the vacant land, to ensure the land is used responsibly as a resource.
The Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC as a university that offers students various research opportunities. UMBC undergraduate students are involved in research that impacts UWIN's goal of creating...
Following up on recent sightings of wildlife in the New York City area, The New York Times published an opinion series exploring the question of how urban dwellers should cope with urban wildlife....
Robust evidence supports the finding that humanity has entered a new geological era, reports a new paper in Science, co-authored by Erle Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems....
NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a survey of polar ice, carried out parallel flights in the north and south poles for the first time in seven years. The mission to the Antarctic Peninsula recorded a...
Local sustainability researchers and thought leaders took center stage on October 16, 2015, at a forum for urban sustainability in Baltimore, hosted by UMBC’s School of Public Policy. The forum...
For twenty years JCET has brought leading scientists to UMBC in research areas that align with NASA’s Earth science interests, such as climate and radiation, atmospheric chemistry and dynamics,...
UMBC is a founding member and partner of a new consortium of 14 institutions to develop strategies to keep urban water systems healthy and address challenges that threaten them both nationally and...