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Earth System Science & Policy

Dr. Romsdahl gives radio interview about her research on policy framing for climate change. The full interview will be aired this weekend on SiriusXM. The soundbit from the interview can be accessed by this link: https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/the-briefing-climate-actions-in-red-states?in=siriusxm-news-issues%2Fsets%2Fsiriusxm-insight-1

A paper led by ESSP Ph. D. student, Afshin Shabani was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Water Resource Association. While quite a few papers have been published on simulating rising water in Devils Lake, this is the first report investigating both quantity and quality of the water in Devils Lake. In […]

http://www.salon.com/2017/03/02/conservatives-are-willing-to-combat-climate-change-when-its-not-called-climate-change/

Title: Assessing national discourse and local governance framing of climate change for adaptation in the United Kingdom   Abstract: While many national governments struggle to maintain global climate change as a high priority issue, many local governments are taking action to fill the policy gaps. This study examines how local governments across the United Kingdom […]

http://theconversation.com/red-state-rural-america-is-acting-on-climate-change-without-calling-it-climate-change-69866

Spectral sea surface reflectance of skylight, https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-25-4-A1 Interpretation of scattering by oceanic particles around 120 degrees and its implication in ocean color studies, https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-25-4-A191    

UND will have its first annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition this Spring 2017.  The 3MT is a research communication competition, where graduate students have three minutes to compellingly and clearly present the significance and value of their research—whether thesis or dissertation—in language accessible to a non-specialist audience. By Friday 3 February, the Graduate Program Director in […]

Congratulations to our Ph. D. student Afshin Shabani, who was recently awarded an NDWRRI Fellowship for the year 2017-2018. This is the 2nd time that Afshin won the fellowship, which is provided by USGS and managed by North Dakota Water Resource Reseach Institute at NDSU.

Three ESSP students, Afshin Shabani, Tim Dillon, and Sergey Gulbin, and PostDoc fellow Wallace Ng are presenting their research results at the AGU conference being held at San Francisco from 12 – 16 December 2016.

To monitor water quality in Devils Lake, a buoy has been deployed since 2011 measuring several water parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll concentration, turbidity) and meteorological parameters (temerature, pressure, winds). The buoy is launched after the lake is unfrozen and retrieved before the winter, taking measurements for approximately 6 months every year.