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Scientists may be underestimating Arctic ecosystem changes, new UMBC research shows
A metric that climate scientists rely on, called NDVI, has limitations that may be causing them to misinterpret their results. Fred Huemmrich's new paper suggests "that there very well may be more...
November 5, 2021 · 2:04 PM
NASA awards $72 million for new UMBC-led Earth science research partnership
NASA has announced a major award of $72 million over three years for the new Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II center. UMBC serves as the lead for a national consortium...
October 28, 2021 · 2:45 PM
UMBC’s Reem Hannun to co-lead urban air quality study with NOAA Climate Award
Emissions from household products are on the rise compared to emissions from combustion engines, but their effect on air quality is poorly understood. "So, if we want to have a better...
October 12, 2021 · 5:01 PM
Hurricanes, well-being, and AI: START Awards set up UMBC researchers for success
Physicist Steve Guimond and collaborators have received a new $682,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop, run, and analyze complex hurricane models on supercomputers. However,...
August 6, 2021 · 1:56 PM
UMBC’s Ryan Kramer confirms human-caused climate change with direct evidence for first time
Sixteen years of continuous data from NASA's CERES mission confirm that humans' role in climate change, indicated by a quantity known as the "radiative forcing," is the driving factor pulling...
April 12, 2021 · 1:03 PM
NASA awards UMBC team $1.4M to develop AI that improves how computers process climate data from satellites
“Now we have so much raw data. So how do we analyze it? How do we make it useful for the research community?” asks Jianwu Wang. As data archives balloon, the capabilities of artificial...
October 26, 2020 · 12:09 PM
UMBC once again ranks among the top 150 universities in federal research funding
The Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey aggregates federal research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2018. The survey data combines total funding from all federal...
February 28, 2020 · 3:23 PM
We have liftoff! UMBC-developed mini satellite launched into space to study climate, air quality
“As an engineer, I’m looking to develop technology that can make the science happen,” says Dominik Cieslak. That's exactly what Cieslak and the rest of the team have accomplished with their...
November 7, 2019 · 11:52 PM
UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe develops new method to gauge atmosphere’s ability to clear methane, a potent greenhouse gas
"Hydroxyl radicals control the lifetime of nearly every reactive gas,” including methane, explains Glenn Wolfe. However, “globally, we don’t have a way to directly measure them.” His new research...
May 31, 2019 · 2:02 PM
UMBC labs share four essentials for undergraduate research success
#1: Developing scientist identity. For example, in Ruben Delgado's lab, “Every undergraduate has a project that they can define when they first start and then fine tune it as they move along,"...
April 18, 2019 · 2:38 PM

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