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Friday, May 2, 2025

CISESS Shines at Maryland Day

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.

Friday, April 25, 2025

Evaluation of Satellite Data for Oyster Aquaculture Modeling

This study, coauthored by CISESS Scientist Ron Vogel, found that satellite data products and water quality data collected routinely by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources can replace on-site measurements taken at oyster farms as input to an oyster harvest model.

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Student-Built Microwave Radiometer

CISESS Microwave Radiometer Seed Grant Results

CISESS Scientists Hu Yang and Jun Dong worked with student interns Samatha Smith, Feng Pei Zhang, Richard Zhou, Chao-Wei Tu and Zhuo-Yu Yang, and with Electrical Engineer Doug Baker, to build a working microwave radiometer. The goal was to let students get hands-on learning of an important satellite instrument.

Raspberry Pi Lightning Camera Network

CISESS Lightning Camera Network Seed Grant Results

CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang, with the help of her student interns Dominic Brooks, Alex Friedman and Samantha Smith, has designed and built a Raspberry Pi camera network for high-speed lightning video observation. Four Raspberry Pi Cameras were set up in Maryland, two in Arizona and one in Oklahoma.

Virtual Reality

CISESS Virtual Reality Seed Grant Results

The goal of CISESS Scientists Guangyang Fang and Joseph Patton’s Seed Grant project was to develop a Virtual Reality (VR) tool that allows researchers and forecasters to interpret 3-D weather and climate datasets on a sphere more intuitively and efficiently. They redesigned their earlier user interface to make it easier to use – this effort was led by undergraduate interns Damian Figuero and Ashmita Pyne.

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