University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Awarded NASA Funding Renewal
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) has been awarded a new five-year, $95 million cooperative agreement with NASA. Established in 1999, ESSIC is a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that supports research, teaching and career training in Earth system science.
- "ESSIC researchers have given us unprecedented insights into the global and regional connections between land, oceans, atmosphere and human activity.
- ESSIC's 88 scientists and students funded by the current NASA cooperative agreement submitted 168 papers for publication in 2021 alone.
- A 2020 study in the journal Remote Sensing compared a global precipitation forecast provided by NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System with near-real-time satellite precipitation estimates for use in a global landslide forecasting system.
- "The renewal of this award is a testament to the quality of the work done by our University of Maryland faculty in their collaboration with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists."