Category: Energy & Environment
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Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.
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Climate & Space faculty win MIDAS grant
PODS grant awardees receive funding support for a wide range of projects with data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the common thread.
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Prof. Steiner elected president of the AGU Atmospheric Sciences section
The prestigious position plays a major role in the formation of AGU science policy.
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North American cold-climate forests are already absorbing less carbon, study shows
By zeroing in on different high-latitude regions around the globe, researchers reveal what global averages mask.
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Offshore oil and gas platforms release more methane than previously estimated
Aerial sampling offers a new look at escaping gases that contribute to global climate change.
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Asst. Prof. Payne publishes new atmospheric rivers paper in Nature
“Understanding how atmospheric river characteristics will respond to a warming climate is vital to the resilience of communities affected by them.”
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NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights
Using data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, researchers found connections between the population density of cities and how much carbon dioxide they produce per person.
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Climate & Space students win AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards
The Outstanding Student Presentation Awards are awarded to students for quality research in the geophysical sciences.
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Prof. Xianglei Huang named co-investigator on new NASA Earth Venture Continuity mission
Libera instrument will help researchers study the radiation budget at the top of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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A passenger airplane will advance a U-Michigan-led satellite mission to understand climate
New Zealand plane fitted with receivers will validate CYGNSS data and improve interpretation.
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Why sea level rise models have been wrong
A Q&A with Jeremy Bassis, an expert on ice dynamics and contributing author of the IPCC’s latest report.
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Great Lakes ice cover forecasts: A new approach enables local predictions
New approach can reliably predict months in advance whether ice will form in a given winter, as well as the timing of ice onset.