The ESSIC Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at UMD (CICS-MD) held its 4th Annual Science Meeting last Monday and Tuesday, November 23 & 24 in College Park, MD. Over 100 people participated in this year's event with over 40 talks on NOAA Research Priorities, JPSS and GOES-R satellites, Data Assimilation, Calibration/Validation, Data Fusion and Algorithm Development, and Earth System Monitoring from Satellites. There was also a Poster Session on Monday evening. The slides and posters from the Science Meeting are now available on the CICS-MD Website: http://cicsmd.umd.edu/news/news/science-meeting-archive/ .
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
