Earth Systems Science
Congratulations to IDSC Deputy Director Ben Kirtman! Dr. Kirtman has been named the new dean at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, effective August 1, 2025.
Earth Systems Science
WLRN Public Media reported on a series of National Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) grants aimed at the creation of a “new service—not unlike the National Weather Service —[that will provide] more specific projections to help planners and emergency managers.” Read more “UM to Receive $8.6 M to Create National Climate Forecasting Service”
Earth Systems Science
From ominous and unsettling to daunting and dire, meteorologists have no shortage of adjectives to describe what the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has in store. In their most aggressive outlook ever, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are predicting an above-average season of between 17 and 25 named storms, with eight to 13 becoming hurricanes, including four to seven major cyclones. Forecasters are 70 percent confident in those ranges. Read more “Atlantic Ocean Temperatures Could Produce Record Hurricane Season”
IDSC is pleased to announce the third distinguished lecture in the Data Citizens series, Dr. Robert Atlas, Research Professor and Global Coordinator for CARTA, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and, Director Emeritus/ NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Read more “Data Citizens presents Robert Atlas 2/10/2021”
News
IDSC is pleased to announce the third distinguished lecture in the Data Citizens series, Dr. Robert Atlas, Research Professor and Global Coordinator for CARTA, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and, Director Emeritus/ NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Read more “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series presents Robert Atlas 2/10/2021”
Grants
Residents of Nicaragua were still being pummeled by Hurricane Iota’s powerful winds and life-threatening storm surge on Tuesday when a group of University of Miami scientists and administrators more than a thousand miles away explained to a virtual audience how the work of a newly funded cooperative research institute and the infrastructure that supports it will help improve our understanding of tropical cyclones and other climate events. Read more “UM and NOAA Launch One-of-a-Kind Climate Collaboration”
News - Archived
Pulley Ridge is series of underwater barrier islands on the southwest Florida shelf, home to a unusual mixture of corals, algae, and shallow water and deep water species. Studying this mesophotic coral ecosystem’s physical and biological attributes may provide significant economic value to Florida’s tourism and commercial/recreational fisheries. Read more “Pulley Ridge Project is underway!”
Awards & Honors
Felimon Gayanilo received the 2011 EPA Gulf Guardian award in the partnership category for his leading role in the development of the data portal for the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association (GCOOS-RA). The portal was deemed a key component of the centralized data management system, benefiting a broad community. Read more “EPA Gulf Guardian Award 2011 Goes to Felimon Gayanilo”