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Friday, January 23, 2026

CISESS Land Product Scientists Honored by NESDIS

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.

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.

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First CISESS Seed Grants Announce Results

The four CISESS Seed grants awarded in 2022 have completed with outstanding results! (1) Guangyang Fang & Joseph Patton have developed a remote streaming VR interface to view 3D climate data on ENSO. (2) Daile Zhang has designed a low-cost Raspberry Pi camera lightning monitor with 16 cameras currently in place. (3) Veljko Petkovic and and Malarvizhi Arulra have a PMW emulator from ABI data based on AI/ML. (4) Hu Yang and Jun Dong helped students build and test a microwave radiometer.

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.

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