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    <Title>Ice Islands in Antarctica? Shuman contributes to EO IOTD</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Glaciologist <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/christopher.a.shuman" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Christopher Shuman</a> (615/UMBC) and other researchers are monitoring the increase in potential "ice islands", which are forming from the collapse of ice shelves in eastern Antarctica. Read more about this glacial activity <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149755/ice-lost-island-found?src=eoa-iotd" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>. </div>
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    <Summary>Glaciologist Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) and other researchers are monitoring the increase in potential "ice islands", which are forming from the collapse of ice shelves in eastern Antarctica....</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:01:22 -0400</PostedAt>
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    <Title>Korkin &amp; Emberson publish first-author papers</Title>
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          <div class="html-content"><div><a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/sergey.v.korkin" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Sergey Korkin</a> (613/UMBC) recently published a paper with <a href="https://physics.umbc.edu/people/faculty/zhai/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Pengwang Zhai</a> (613/UMBC) among the co-authors:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Korkin, S., E.-S. Yang, R. Spurr, C. Emde, P. Zhai, N. Krotkov, A. Vasilkov, and A. Lyapustin (2022), "Numerical results for polarized light scattering in a spherical atmosphere," J. Quant. Spect. Rad. Trans., <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2022.108194" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2022.108194</a>. </div></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/robert.a.emberson" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Robert Emberson</a> (617/UMBC) recently published a paper with <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/pukar.m.amatya" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Pukar Amatya</a> (617/UMBC) among the co-authors: </div><div><br></div><div>Emberson, R., D. Kirschbaum, P. Amatya, H. Tanyas, O. Marc (2022), "Insights from the topographic characteristics of a large global catalog of rainfall-induced landslide event inventories," Nat. Haz. Earth Sys. Sci., <a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1129-2022" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1129-2022</a>.</div></div></div>
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    <Summary>Sergey Korkin (613/UMBC) recently published a paper with Pengwang Zhai (613/UMBC) among the co-authors:      Korkin, S., E.-S. Yang, R. Spurr, C. Emde, P. Zhai, N. Krotkov, A. Vasilkov, and A....</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:57:37 -0400</PostedAt>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="118579" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/118579">
  <Title>Delgado and Zhai faculty mentors for URCAD presenters</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>UMBC's <a href="https://urcad.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day</a> will be held online from April 18-24, 2022. Among the many presenters are several students from UMBC's Physics Department, who were mentored by GESTAR II/JCET scientists and Physics faculty members <a href="https://physics.umbc.edu/people/faculty/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ruben Delgado</a> and <a href="https://physics.umbc.edu/people/faculty/zhai/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Pengwang Zhai</a>. Click <strong><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/undergradresearch/posts/118548" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a></strong> for more information. </div></div>
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  <Summary>UMBC's Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day will be held online from April 18-24, 2022. Among the many presenters are several students from UMBC's Physics Department, who were...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:59:29 -0400</PostedAt>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="118576" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/118576">
  <Title>Stanley and team's work included in Survival Guide article</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">As <a href="https://www.intheknow.com/post/woman-films-landslide-tiktok/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">the article</a> begins, "An Alaskan guide was filming a survival video in Juneau, Alaska, for her 170,000 TikTok followers when she suddenly heard a landslide heading toward her." This is a real-world application of "If you see a landslide, say something," which was from a <a href="https://gestar2.umbc.edu/post/118111/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">previous post</a> related to <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/thomas.a.stanley" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Thomas Stanley</a>'s (617/UMBC) work with the <a href="https://gpm.nasa.gov/landslides/report.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Landslide Reporter</a>. The guide was safe, and she was able to divert another person away from the landslide. Mr. Stanley, his colleagues, and sponsor Dalia Kirschbaum (GSFC) study, write about, and track landslides. They utilize a NASA model called <a href="https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4631" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness (LHASA).</a><div><br></div><div>NOTE: Thomas Stanley and <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/robert.a.emberson" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Robert Emberson</a> (617/UMBC) both will be among the panelists at an upcoming Citizen Science event (online): </div><div><strong>NASA Landslide Reporter: Presentation and Q&amp;A</strong></div><div>Thursday, April 28, 2022, 6:00 - 7:00 PM EDT</div><div>For more information, visit <a href="https://scistarter.org/landslide-reporter-1" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://scistarter.org/landslide-reporter-1</a>.</div></div>
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  <Summary>As the article begins, "An Alaskan guide was filming a survival video in Juneau, Alaska, for her 170,000 TikTok followers when she suddenly heard a landslide heading toward her." This is a...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:27:59 -0400</PostedAt>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="118267" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/118267">
  <Title>Campbell &amp; Huemmrich join SHIFT Field Campaign</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">In spring 2022, researchers with NASA's Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission conducted a field campaign called SHIFT (SBG High Frequency Time series), part of the SBG AVIRIS-NG 2022 Dense Time Series Campaign. (Read more about the AVIRIS-NG sensor <a href="https://avirisng.jpl.nasa.gov/data.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>.) SHIFT is collecting airborne visible-to-shortwave infrared (VSWIR) spectral imagery to describe the phenological changes at approximately weekly cadence for sites across the <a href="https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/california/stories-in-california/dangermond-preserve/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dangermond Preserve</a> and the <a href="https://sedgwick.nrs.ucsb.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Sedgewick Reserve</a>, both located in Santa Barbara County, California. <div><br></div><div>During UMBC's spring break (03/20/22-03/26/22), <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/petya.k.campbell" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Petya Campbell</a> and <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/karl.f.huemmrich" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Fred Huemmrich</a> (both 618/UMBC) participated in the campaign. Dr. Campbell joined the field team in California to collect representative vegetation samples and supporting measurements of canopy composition, stand parameters, and photosynthetic pigments. She sent leaf samples overnight to NASA GSFC, where Dr. Huemmrich measured leaf biophysical parameters and optical properties. </div><div><br></div><div>In summer 2022, Drs. Campbell and Huemmrich along with a SBG student intern will combine the AVIRIS imagery and the field data in a biophysical model to assess the dynamics in vegetation photosynthetic pigments and gross primary productivity. </div></div>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="118209" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/118209">
    <Title>Huemmrich publishes two first-author papers</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Two papers led by <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/karl.f.huemmrich" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Fred Huemmrich</a> (618/UMBC) with <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/petya.k.campbell" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Petya Campbell</a> (618/UMBC) as second author were published recently: one in <a href="https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLVI-1-W1-2021/31/2022/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</a>, and the other in <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ac5365" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Environmental Research Communications</a>.</div>
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    <Summary>Two papers led by Fred Huemmrich (618/UMBC) with Petya Campbell (618/UMBC) as second author were published recently: one in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and...</Summary>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="118147" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/118147">
    <Title>Weir examines Human Activities on Atmospheric Conditions</Title>
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    <Title>Keller &amp; Knowland create Index on Children's Health Risk</Title>
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    <Title>Stanley's work with Landslides discussed in The Atlantic</Title>
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    <Summary>In The Atlantic's "A Recipe for Climate Disaster", readers learn about landslides in different parts of the world and the devastating results. Thomas Stanley (617/UMBC) along with his sponsor...</Summary>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="118020" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/118020">
    <Title>Shuman discusses the Ice Shelf Collapse in East Antarctica</Title>
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    <Summary>Read about the March 2022 event in which an ice shelf collapsed in this NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day article, featuring contributions from Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC).</Summary>
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