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These slides are for recent articles, announcements, meetings, and important outside links.

CISESS Awarded to UMD

CICS is now the Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS)

2019 JPSS SPARKS Graduates

This year's JPSS SPARKS students (from left to right): Alejandra Ramirez Pabon, Stefanos Spiratos, Mohamed Layachi, Raul Ontiveros, Maher Aldeghlawi and Carolien Mossel.

CISESS Bids Farewell to its Summer Interns

(from left to right) Natalie Memarsadeghi, Ysabel Banon, Idris Akala, Jason Chen, Brandon Bush, Clairisse Reiher, Irene Feng, Matt Nicholson, Carolien Mossel, Maher Aldeghlawi, Raul Ontiveros, Alejandra Ramirez Pabon and Jerry Xiong.

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We do research in a wide variety of areas at the intersection of climate and satellites. We focus on applications as well as research. read more.

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Young scientists, including students and post-doctoral researchers, play an important role in the conduct of research at CICS-MD. read more.

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Director's Welcome

Hugo_retrato_(2016) How can we best exploit satellite information for improving weather and climate predictions? What is needed to create consistent long term records of satellite products for use in climate activities? What are the research needs to ensure we extract optimal information from future satellites sensors?

These questions lie at the core of CICS-MD mission of supporting NOAA’s ability to use satellite observations and Earth System models to advance the national climate mission. Our people, research scientists and research engineers along with academic personnel, strive to make certain that our research is transferred to NOAA operations. We also believe in the need of developing and maintaining interactions with a broad community. Outreach, education, training, climate literacy activities are part of our vision for a successful return to society of the confidence they have entrusted us.

Explore our web site, find out what we do and please contact us with your suggestions for improving how we communicate our activities.

Hugo Berbery

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Featured News

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Six JPSS SPARKS Students Present their Research Results

The JPSS Students Professional and Academic Readiness with Knowledge in Satellites (SPARKS) program held a nine-week course this summer for graduate students with speakers drawn from NOAA and Affiliate JPSS Scientists. In addition, each of the six students had a NOAA mentor to work with on a summer research project. The program just wrapped up and the students gave their presentations on their projects on Tuesday, August 6. Here are some of the highlights:

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

CoRP Science Symposium will be held on August 27-29 at UMD

CICS/CISESS is hosting this year's NOAA CoRP Science Symposium. It will be held at ESSIC on August 27 to 29. There will be awards for best presentation and best poster (1st, 2nd, 3rd). We have 20 speakers and 25 posters on topics including satellite, data, applied, and Earth system science.

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