Ross Salawitch was one of the contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The Nobel citation for the IPCC praises two decades of scientific reports that have created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.
![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)
