STAR held award celebrations on January 20 at which members of the STAR Land Product Development Science Team won the NESDIS Vision and Creativity “Future is Here Today” Award. Six of the seven-member team are CISESS Scientists: Corinne Carter, Jingjing Peng, Peng Yu, Yuling Liu, Yuan Zhou, and Zhen Song.

On 26 April, the University of Maryland in College Park welcomed the public to its springtime open house. CISESS succeeded in introducing some of the cool research conducted by its scientists, delighting the public along the way.