News & Highlights

The Earth and Space Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites you to celebrate a significant milestone: 500 days of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem...

This past week, members of the Earth & Space Institute finished commissioning their new thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC), a breathtaking piece of engineering—literally! In the aerospace industry,...

Lars Sobieski, undergraduate mechanical engineer at the Earth and Space Institute, spends his day developing hardware and testing for future climate satellites. At ESI, he designs and fabricates...

On April 16, 2025, UMBC held its annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) conference. This event features research done by undergraduates from all majors under the...

A recent Remote Sensing paper by Ana Prados, "Key Governance Practices that Facilitate the Use of Remote Sensing Information for Wildfire Management: A Case Study in Spain," was featured in an...

On June 3, 2025, UMBC graduate student Noah Sienkiewicz successfully defended his dissertation in Atmospheric Physics, titled “Characterization of the HARP2 instrument and its Influences on the...

On April 4, 2025, 8th grade students from Queen Anne’s County visited UMBC's campus as part of a broader campus tour. The youth visit was led by Dr. Sarah Gardenghi, Assistant Vice Provost of...

From March 10 - 14, 2025, UMBC Atmospheric Physics graduate student Rachel Smith and ESI mechanical engineers CJ Escobar and Ian Decker calibrated ESI’s AirHARP2 ultraviolet spectrometer (AH2-UV)...

The first annual joint NASA Plankton Aerosol Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Science Team Meeting (PAC3) was held at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, NY from...

The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP2) is a multi-angle imaging polarimeter instrument, which was built, calibrated, and currently is supported by an interdisciplinary team of scientists...