Hydrological Sciences
 

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Climate & Radiation Laboratory Seminar
EPIC observations of sun glint from ice clouds
Tamás Várnai, (613/UMBC-GESTAR II)
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ocean Ecology Laboratory Seminar
Identifying phytoplankton drivers, trends, and hotspots in the Southern Ocean
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Terrestrial Water Cycle Seminar
The Adventures of SLAP (Scanning L-band Active Passive Instrument): STEM Flights, Spotting RFI, The Capitol of Paella, Really Salty Water, Freezing in Canada, and Yes, Soil Moisture From Coast to Coast”
Edward Kim, PhD, Research Scientist, NASA Goddard (617)
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Featured Videos

The Science of Snow: Digging for Data

It takes a lot of field work in challenging conditions to gather important snow data. This is the story of NASA’s last SnowEx campaign and those who participated in it.

SnowEx Sets Sights on Alaska

NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team concludes their final year in Alaska. Project Scientist Carrie Vuyovich previews the campaign ahead.

Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials

This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites.

Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa

According to a July 2022 report from the International Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, the worst drought conditions in 70 years across the Horn of Africa have more than 16 million people coping with a shortage of drinking water.

 

Local News

 

Scientists and disaster risk-reduction practitioners visited Nepal to view major landslide sites and better understand what satellite data reveal abou...

Tuesday, February 13, 2024
 

Karyn Tabor (617/SSAI) and Lola Fatoyinbo (618) co-authored a paper published earlier this year in Nature Communications that was featured online and ...

Friday, December 15, 2023
 

Snow Water Equivalent SAR and Radiometer (SWESARR) arrived in Fairbanks, AK to take part in SnowEx led by Carrie Vuyovich (617). SWESARR flights will ...

Friday, October 20, 2023