The first UMBC Earth Day Symposium featured 11 oral and 14 poster presentations from the Atmospheric Physics Department, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), and NASA. UMBC Atmospheric Physics program professors are linked to their research pages in the Department of Physics.
Invited Talks
Belay Demoz, UMBC
The GCOS Reference Upper Air Network: concept, organization, accomplishment, and its future
J. Vanderlei Martins, UMBC
Advancements in polarized remote sensing and in-situ measurements of clouds and aerosol
Sergio DeSouza-Machado, JCET
Hyperspectral infrared sounding: from weather to climate
Amita Mehta, JCET
Overview of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission data and applications
Meng Gao, UMBC
How cephalopods use optics to camouflage
Pengwang Zhai, UMBC
Radiative transfer theory and its applications in remote sensing of the Earth system
Zhibo Zhang, UMBC
We are ACROS: Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Observation and Simulation group
Tom Hanisco, NASA
Improving methane lifetime estimates by knowing OH better: remote sensing of methane’s primary sink
Adriana Rocha-Lima, NASA
Evaluation of the dust distribution in the Middle East and North Africa using the GOES-5 model
Andrew Tangborn, JCET
Data assimilation and forecasting
Ana Prados, NASA
NASA’s ARSET program
