News & Highlights

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...

ESI research engineer Carissa Arillo recounts her time supporting the NASA Plankton-Aerosol-Cloud-ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in this new Conversations with...

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, ESI faculty, interns, and students attended the Maryland Aerospace Industry and Education Roundtable at the University of Maryland, College Park in College Park,...

From August to October 2024, the Earth and Space Institute (ESI) leads the AirHARP2 participation during the NASA PACE Post-launch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX) field campaign at Edwards AFB, CA....

On September 18, 2024, Dr. Ana Prados and the Disasters Avoided team, through work partly funded by NASA’s Wildfires Program, were featured in the launch of the United Nations Disaster Risk...

NASA's PACE satellite launched in early February 2024, to study the health of the Earth's oceans, land, and atmosphere. As data has been collected, the next step is to validate the measurements...

From August 4 - 8, 2024, PACE Hack Week was held at UMBC in the ILSB, with 41 participants (from 89 applicants). Ten people traveled from abroad, and six were associated with NOAA.  Per Dr. Jeremy...

ESI scientists Dr. Brent McBride and Dr. Anin Puthukkudy participated in the GESTAR II Open House at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on July 23, 2024. Drs. McBride and Puthukkudy discussed recent...

In October 2023, Ana Prados, a principal investigator with NASA’s Wildland Fires program, traveled to Asturias in northern Spain, where she visited the site of the single largest fire to date in...

On June 11, 2024, the NASA Goddard Agency Honor Awards ceremony was held in the Building 8 auditorium. These awards are agency-wide.  Congratulations to Vanderlei Martins (613/UMBC), Director...