Associate Professor Maria Tzortziou of the earth and atmospheric science (EAS) department and NOAA CREST has received two three-year research grants from NASA for research on Carbon Dynamics along Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces. Dr. Kyle McDonald, Terry Elkes Professor in EAS, is a co-PI. The projects will integrate advanced remote sensing
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Maria Tzortziou joined the CCNY Earth and Atmospheric Science (EAS) Department and the CREST Center in the fall 2014. Maria brings to the CCNY, EAS and NOAA-CREST community, great subject knowledge and expertise in the fields of Biogeochemical and carbon cycling of
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Dear NESDIS Colleagues: I hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of summer. This month at NESDIS, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) released updated information on the 2013 Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters along with several new tools to assist
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Effort creates ecological baseline to improve watershed management February 6, 2014 Aerial view of study area. (Credit: NOAA) The pollutants measured in the sediments of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, in a new NOAA studywere among the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, chromium and
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Polar Vortex Enters Northern U.S. The polar vortex is a whirling and persistent large area of low pressure, found typically over both North and South poles. The northern polar vortex was pushing southward over western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota on Monday, Jan.
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Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) are expecting G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm conditions to occur on Earth Jan. 9 and 10. The source of this pulse to the geomagnetic field is an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a burst of charged particles
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LAGO ENRIQUILLO, Dominican Republic — Steadily, mysteriously, like in an especially slow science fiction movie, the largest lake in the Caribbean has been rising and rising, devouring tens of thousands of acres of farmland, ranches and whatever else stands in its way.
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By Carolyn Gramling, via Washingtom Post While 2012 was a rough year around the globe, it wasn’t because of the Planet X/Mayan calendar doomsday reasons people feared. Instead, it was a year of extreme weather: drought and heat waves in the United
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In the hot and humid last days of August, a group of NOAA-CREST students cruised the Chesapeake Bay to analyze water and air quality. Undergraduate students Lena Lai and Kaveh Bastani, graduate students Robert Foster, Amir Ibrahim, Carlos Carrizo and Ahmed el
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Dr. Z. Johnny Luo, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and NOAA CREST Institute at The City College of New York, is one of 12 lead scientists on a NASA airborne mission to study how convective clouds
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