News & Highlights

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...

Three ESI researchers recently defended their dissertation and theses. ESI research engineer, Dr. Ivan Gamino del Rio, earned his PhD in Space Research and Astrobiology from the Universidad de...

Dr. Anin Puthukkudy, research scientist at ESI, was recently awarded the competitive Center and Institute Departmentally-Engaged Research (CIDER) grant from the UMBC Division of Research and...

ESI scientist Dr. Brent McBride and UMBC ATPH graduate student Rachel Smith contributed to a recent NASA feature article, "PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign" on the NASA...

OreSat 0.5 is a 2U (20x10x10 cm) small satellite developed in collaboration between the ESI and Portland State University (PSU). After a five-year development, OreSat 0.5 was launched from...

ESI members participated in two conferences this past fall: the Advancements in Polarimetric Observations (APOLO) in Kyoto, Japan, from November 18 -22, 2024 and the American Geophysical Union...

The academic flagship event of UMBC's Homecoming celebration is GRIT-X, a series of TED-style talks given by accomplished UMBC faculty. This year, the organizers invited prior GRIT-X speakers to a...