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    PANTHYR Instrument Installed In Chesapeake Bay To Monitor Water Quality, Validate Satellite Data
    (UMBC News, 2024-11-01) Hansen, Sarah
    Climbing 30-meter ladders and avoiding osprey nests might not sound like typical activities for scientists who usually work with equations and models—but it’s all in a day’s work for Kevin Turpie’s team, which includes an international group of scientists and engineers from UMBC, NASA, the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), also known as the Flanders Marine Institute, also in Belgium. Over the last 15 months, they have collaborated with Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) staff, with the blessing of the U.S. Coast Guard, to install, monitor, and repair a new instrument on top of a Coast Guard navigation tower in Chesapeake Bay near Tolchester, Maryland.
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    Study Shows Natural Regrowth Of Tropical Forests Has Immense Potential To Address Environmental Concerns
    (UMBC News, 2024-10-30) Hansen, Sarah; Marlayna, Demond; Fagan, Matthew; Chazdon, Robin
    A new study in Nature finds that up to 215 million hectares of land (an area larger than Mexico) in humid tropical regions around the world has the potential to naturally regrow. That much forest could store 23.4 gigatons of carbon over 30 years and also significantly help enhance biodiversity and water quality. The study showed that more than half of the area with strong potential for regrowth was in five countries: Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, China, and Colombia. “Tree planting in degraded landscapes can be costly. By leveraging natural regeneration techniques, nations can meet their restoration goals cost effectively,” says the study’s co-lead author, Brooke Williams, a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and the Institute for Capacity Exchange in Environmental Decisions. “Our model can guide where these savings can best be taken advantage of,” she says.
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    GESTAR II Center Awarded $47 Million Extension On Cooperative Agree With NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    (UMBC News, 2024-09-26) Fraser, Adriana; Demond, Marlayna
    The UMBC-led Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research (GESTAR II) center has been awarded a two-year, $47 million extension to continue its cooperative agreement with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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    Lee Blaney Assumes Presidency Of The Association Of Environmental Engineering And Science Professors
    (UMBC News, 2024-09-16) Meyers, Catherine; Demond, Marlayna
    Professor Lee Blaney, in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, formally assumed the role of president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) at a board of directors meeting in early September. AEESP is a nonprofit organization founded in 1963 to foster inclusive connections between environmental engineering and science researchers and educators. It provides programs for members to develop the academic networks and career skills needed for professional success, increase equitable societal impact of environmental engineering and science scholarship and creative expression, and reimagine the skills necessary for environmental engineers and scientists to provide solutions… Continue Reading Lee Blaney assumes presidency of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
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    REIMAGINING THE HARBOR AS A HUB
    (UMBC Shriver Center, 2021-12) Scott, Sally; Taylor, Joby
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    West Texas A&M University experts talk on preparation for emergency situations
    (2023-08-23) Frazier, KyLeah; Xie, Ming
    The recent disaster in Maui coupled with an approaching dry winter season here in the Panhandle highlights the dangers of wildfires and how being prepared makes a big difference.
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    Freeman Hrabowski: Advocate for Mathematics and STEM Visionary
    (AMS, 2024-09) Anderson, Christian; Dr. Freeman Hrabowski
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    Freeman Hrabowski Looks Back—and Forward
    (Inside Higher Ed, 2022-06-16) Moody, Josh; Mozie-Ross, Yvette
    The legendary president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County will retire at the end of June after 30 years. He made the institution a leader in STEM education, particularly for Black students.
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    How To Count Time: Professor Curtis Menyuk Brings His Expertise In Optics To An Age-old Problem
    (UMBC News, 2024-06-03) Meyers, Catherine
    Curtis Menyuk has applied his expertise in optics to a host of questions at the frontiers of time-keeping science.
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    Focus on Gerontology: Managing the Aging Baby Boomers
    (National Association of Social Workers, 2024) Craig, Peter
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    The pandemic continues to strain nursing homes. What happens if a lot of them close?
    (The 19th, 2021-09-09) Padilla, Mariel
    Thousands of nursing homes say they are struggling to keep their doors open during the pandemic. The 19th reached out to experts to discuss what mass closures would mean for the aging and their loved ones.
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    UMBC Statistician Selected To Work With Addis Ababa University In Ethiopia
    (UMBC News, 2024-05-24) Hansen, Sarah; Demond, Marlayna
    Yehenew Kifle will travel to Ethiopia this summer to work with colleagues on enhancing teaching and mentoring and growing research collaborations to support Ph.D. training in biostatistics as a fellow with the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP).
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    Lee Blaney Awarded Funding To Develop New Ways To Remove “forever Chemicals” From Water - UMBC
    (UMBC News, 2024-05-16) Meyers, Catherine; Demond, Marlayna
    Lee Blaney will develop new ways to remove substances dubbed “forever chemicals” from water, with funding from the Department of Defence’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program.
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    The people behind the papers – Jason Ko and Daniel Lobo
    (The Company of Biologists Ltd, 2024-05-09) Ko, Jason; Lobo, Daniel
    Planarians grow when they are fed and shrink during periods of starvation. However, it is unclear how they maintain appropriate body proportions as their size changes. A new paper in Development investigates the differences between growth and shrinkage dynamics and builds a mathematical model to explore the mechanisms underpinning these two processes. To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author, Jason Ko, and corresponding author, Daniel Lobo, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.
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    The Social Sciences of Podcasts with Dr. Jason Loviglio
    (UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2024-04-08) Anson, Ian; Loviglio, Jason
    On this episode, Dr. Anson speaks with Dr. Jason Loviglio, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication Studies at UMBC. Dr. Loviglio is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcasting Studies, and recently published a piece about podcasting entitled “From Radio to Podcasting: Intimacy and Massification” that echoes many of the themes in our discussion.
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    Elizabeth Patton, University of Maryland Baltimore County – The Home Office and Work-Life Balance
    (Academic mintue, 2023-09-18) Academic Minute; Patton, Elizabeth
    On University of Maryland Baltimore County Week: A healthy work-life balance can be difficult no matter where you apply your trade. Today on The Academic Minute: Elizabeth Patton, associate professor of media and communication studies, examines how we portray work/life balance at home. Elizabeth Patton is media historian interested in discourses of gender, race and class in the history of media, representations of urbanism and suburbanism in popular culture, and the impact of communication technologies on space and place. She is the author of Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office (Rutgers University Press, 2020). She is the recipient of the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Recent research can be found in edited volumes such as Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (Duke University Press, 2021) and Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press, 2021). She currently serves as managing co-editor of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture.
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    Jewish Cemetery Association Strives to Create Comprehensive Graves Database
    (Maryland Jewish Media, 2024-03-04) Feiler, Alan; Engel, Don
    With the help of volunteers, the Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore is working to catalog the Jewish cemeteries and graves in the area for its digital database, including the identification of graves at some of Jewish Baltimore's oldest cemeteries.