ESSIC Visiting Research Scientist Xuesong Zhang is lead author on a recent study that simulated the environmental impacts from the conversion of grassland to corn and soybeans for 12 US Midwestern states using the EPIC (Environmental Policy Integrated Climate) model. The paper’s co-authors include Tyler J Lark, Christopher M Clark, Yongping Yuan, and Stephen D LeDuc.
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Liqing Jiang led the development of a new data set called the Coastal Ocean Data Analysis Product in North America (CODAP-NA). It is an internally consistent data product for discrete inorganic carbon, oxygen, and nutrients on the U.S. North American ocean margins. CODAP-NA is one of the first major coastal ocean acidification (OA) data products. Its coverage includes all ocean margins of the conterminous United States, as well as part of Alaska. It will help the U.S. prepare OA mitigation and adaptation strategies. This collaborative effort is also a showcase example of NCEI/CISESS taking a leading role in a major synthesis effort involving NOAA labs (AOML and PMEL) and academic institutions (University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, University of Delaware, University of Miami, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, and Georgetown University). Earth System Science Data accepted an article on CODAP-NA on May 2. CISESS Scientist Alex Kozyr is a co-author.
ESSIC/CISESS Senior Faculty Specialist Ron Vogel, Operations Manager for the East Coast Node, was recently recognized and highly praised for his contributions to the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office to identify satellite derived products that support habitat and fisheries management applications.
ESSIC/CISESS Associate Research Scientist Isaac Moradi is the PI of a proposal selected by NASA ROSES to assimilate measurements from active spaceborne radars into NASA GEOS model. The project will benefit from CloudSat CPR and GPM DPR observations and will be conducted in collaboration with Co-Is from NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office and the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory.
ESSIC/CISESS Post-doctoral Associate Daile Zhang was recently featured by The National Lightning Safety Council to discuss her role in the lightning safety effort. In the feature, Zhang talks about what drew her to lightning, specific projects she’s working on, and the future of lightning research.
A paper co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientists Sarah Ringerud and Yalei You was selected as the winner of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2020 Transactions Prize Paper Award. The paper, titled “An Active–Passive Microwave Land Surface Database From GPM”, is also by coauthors S. Joseph Munchak and Ludovic Brucker from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and international researchers Iris de Gelis and Catherine Prigent.
Sujay Kaushal, ESSIC and Department of Geology Associate Professor, submitted a report to the Chesapeake Bay Trust titled, “Tree Trade-Offs in Stream Restoration Projects: Impact on Riparian Groundwater Quality”. Kaushal’s co-authors include Kelsey Wood, Department of Geology Faculty Assistant, Joseph G. Galella Department of Geology Graduate Student, and Philippe G. Vidon from The State University of New York.
ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde is a co-author on a recent paper titled “Short and Medium Range Irrigation Scheduling using Stochastic Simulation‐Optimization Framework with farm‐scale Ecohydrological Model and Weather Forecasts” alongside colleagues from the Institute of Technology Bombay’s Department of Civil Engineering.
Alexey Mishonov, ESSIC/CISESS Associate Research Scientist, participated in the 2021 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, held virtually this year between April 12-14. Mishonov presented a keynote talk titled, “World Ocean Database in 3D: Development, Dissemination, Deliverables”, which discussed the work completed alongside the World Ocean Database team, composed of ten other NCEI/NOAA scientists.
ESSIC/CISESS scientists Erick Geiger, Gang Liu, and Jacqueline De La Cour at NOAA Coral Reef Watch have a new article on satellite ocean color data published in the 13 April 2021 issue of Frontiers in Marine Science. The goal of their study was to determine how best to fill satellite data gaps from cloud cover and quality control exclusions in shallow water. They tested a combination of six spatial (horizontal scale below) and seven temporal scales (vertical scale below) for aggregating data from the VIIRS instrument at several coral reef locations in Maui, Hawai‘i and Puerto Rico and compared these with in situ measurements of water turbidity.
