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    <Title>Shuman contributes to Earth Observatory IOTD</Title>
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          <div class="html-content"><a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/christopher.a.shuman" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Christopher Shuman</a> (615/UMBC) recently contributed to NASA's Earth Observatory Item of the Day, "<a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150880/antarcticas-brunt-ice-shelf-finally-breaks" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf Finally Breaks</a>". Read more about how a specific chasm changed over 10+ years and was integral to the break. </div>
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    <Summary>Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) recently contributed to NASA's Earth Observatory Item of the Day, "Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf Finally Breaks". Read more about how a specific chasm changed over 10+...</Summary>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><div><div><div><div>Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Susan Anenberg, Director, GW Climate and Health Institute Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her talk is titled "Climate change, air pollution, and public health: Bridging science to policy."</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Date and Time:</strong> Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 1:00pm</div><div>Join us via <a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjE2NDA4M2EtYTMzNC00OGNhLTgyODgtYzUyNDc0Nzk0OGY2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%227005d458-45be-48ae-8140-d43da96dd17b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c58e54ca-3561-4059-bb24-a8af64733329%22%7d" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Teams</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Abstract: </strong></div><div><div>Climate change and air pollution are linked in several ways, including that they both stem from anthropogenic fuel combustion and are leading risk factors for global public health. Novel geospatial data sources are enabling greater availability of information on exposure levels and risks for populations all over the world, including in places with limited ground monitoring. This talk will address how satellite and mobile monitoring observations of atmospheric composition are changing our understanding of air quality in urban areas in the U.S. and globally, and how these data can be leveraged to motivate more ambitious air quality and greenhouse gas mitigation policies at municipal, national, and international scales.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Biography:</strong></div></div><div>Susan Anenberg is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the GW Climate and Health Institute. Dr. Anenberg's research focuses on the health implications of air pollution and climate change, from local to global scales. She currently serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board and Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, the World Health Organization's Global Air Pollution and Health Technical Advisory Group, and the National Academy of Science's Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program. She also serves as President of the GeoHealth section of the American Geophysical Union. Previously, Dr. Anenberg was a Co-Founder and Partner at Environmental Health Analytics, LLC, the Deputy Managing Director for Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and a senior advisor for clean cookstove initiatives at the U.S. State Department.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information on the GESTAR II Seminar Series, click <a href="https://gestar2.umbc.edu/gestar-ii-seminar-series/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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  <Summary>Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Susan Anenberg, Director, GW Climate and Health Institute Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George...</Summary>
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  <Title>Publications authored or co-authored by GESTAR II members</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The following are recent publications by GESTAR II scientists:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/hiren.t.jethva" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Jethva, H.</a> (614/MSU) (2022), Assessing predictability of post-monsoon crop residue fires in Northwestern India, <em>Front. Earth. Sci.</em>, </div><div><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1047278" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1047278</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/jackson.tan" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Tan, J.</a>, (613/UMBC) (2022), Lecture 6: Examining Global Precipitation with Mesoscale Atmospheric Systems Represented by Cloud Regimes, in <em>Lectures in Climate Change, Studies of Cloud, Convection and Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations (Book Series)</em>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811256912_006" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811256912_006</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Oreopoulos, L., <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/nayeong.cho" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">N. Cho</a> (613/UMBC), <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/dongmin.lee" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">D. M. Lee</a> (613/MSU) (2022), Revisiting cloud overlap with a merged dataset of liquid and ice cloud extinction from CloudSat and CALIPSO, <em>Front. Remote Sens., </em><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsen.2022.1076471/abstract" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">doi:10.3389/frsen.2022.1076471</a>.</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><a href="https://sciences.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/allison.collow" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Collow, A.</a> (610.1/UMBC), <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/virginie.j.buchard-marchant" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">V. Buchard</a> (610.1/UMBC), P. Colarco, A. da Silva, R. Govindaraju,, E. Nowottnick, , S. Burton, R. Ferrare, C. Hostetler, and L. Ziemba (2022), An evaluation of biomass burning aerosol mass, extinction, and size distribution in GEOS using observations from CAMP2Ex, <em>Atmos. Chem. Phys.</em>, 22, , <a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-16091-2022" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-16091-2022</a>.</div></div></div>
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  <Summary>The following are recent publications by GESTAR II scientists:    Jethva, H. (614/MSU) (2022), Assessing predictability of post-monsoon crop residue fires in Northwestern India, Front. Earth....</Summary>
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  <Title>UMBC names new director of GESTAR II</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>After a national search, UMBC has selected a <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/new-director-to-take-earth-science-research-into-next-era/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">new director</a> of the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) Center II. In fall 2021, <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/nasa-awards-72-million-for-new-umbc-led-earth-science-research-partnership/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NASA awarded $72 million to establish the new GESTAR II center</a> for an initial three years. UMBC leads the center, which includes over 120 researchers, in collaboration with primary partner Morgan State University and six other institutions.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Charles Ichoku</strong>, professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Howard University and the Distinguished Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Science Center, will take the helm as director on February 1, 2023. He succeeds inaugural director <strong>Belay Demoz</strong>, professor of physics, who will continue in his departmental role and who previously served as director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET). JCET preceded GESTAR II, and was <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/nasa-renews-partnership-with-umbcs-jcet-for-46-million-over-five-years/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">last funded in 2015 for $46 million</a> over five years. Ichoku will also have an appointment at UMBC as professor of geography and environmental systems.</div><div><br></div><div>"Dr. Ichoku brings impressive credentials, not only as a world-class scientist, but also as a long-term NASA-based scientist and program manager, to this important leadership position at UMBC. He is a perfect fit for both GESTAR II and UMBC," shares <strong>Karl V. Steiner</strong>, Vice President for Research &amp; Creative Achievement at UMBC. Prior to Ichoku's current position at Howard University, he spent two decades at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, including two years as an associate program manager at NASA Headquarters. His final title at NASA Goddard was assistant chief of the Climate and Radiation Laboratory.</div><div><br></div><div>Ichoku has also consistently prioritized supporting students, with a focus on diversity and inclusion. He served as co-PI for the NASA-funded <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sasa" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Student Airborne Science Activation (SaSa) project</a>, involving three NASA centers and six minority-serving Institutions (MSIs), including UMBC. This past summer, 24 students, including four from UMBC, <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/ozone-and-thunderstorms-nasa-grants-to-ph-d-students/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">spent four weeks at UMBC as part of the SaSa program</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>"I am delighted to join UMBC as the new director of GESTAR II," Ichoku states. "It is both a great pleasure and an honor for me, as I have always admired UMBC for being a shining example in all areas of university performance, including education, scholarship, research, innovation, technology, diversity, sports, environmental sustainability, and community outreach. I am proud of UMBC for attaining the status of Carnegie R1 Doctoral Institution."</div><div><br></div><div>Ichoku adds: "It is also a great blessing to have this wonderful opportunity to contribute to scientific discoveries and knowledge expansion for human advancement through NASA, and, in particular, Goddard Space Flight Center. I previously spent two decades at NASA Goddard and enjoyed every day of working there. I feel highly privileged to be involved in a program that connects two of the organizations that perform at the highest levels in their respective domains of activity, namely academia (UMBC) and space (NASA)." </div><div><br></div><div>UMBC welcomes Dr. Ichoku!</div><div><br></div><div><em>Credit: Sarah L. Hansen, STEM Communications Manager, UMBC</em></div><div><em><a href="mailto:hansen.sarah@umbc.edu">hansen.sarah@umbc.edu</a></em></div><div><em>Photo Credit: Courtesy of Charles Ichoku</em></div><div><em><br></em></div></div>
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    <Title>Congratulations, Graduates!</Title>
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    <Title>Jethva's first-author paper in Earth &amp; Space Science</Title>
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    <Title>Campbell's study on Salt Marsh Loss &amp; Carbon in GSFC feature</Title>
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