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Straddling the Continental Divide in the rarified air 12,000 feet above sea level with only a satellite phone between you and the closest town some 22 miles away is not for the faint of heart. Jeff VanLooy balances himself on the edge of a mountain pool to test its water quality. He is accompanied by […]

Organized by Rebecca Romsdahl, the Climate & Culture Festival presents Will Steger, Polar explorer and climate educator as the keynote speaker. The Festival aims to build an ongoing community conversation about the links between climate and culture. Full schedule of events: http://wp.me/p6Vad7-s Video-clip the Climate & Culture Festival, December 8-11th – https://vimeo.com/147269557

ESSP graduate students Afshin Shabani and Brent Silvis are attending the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) workshop to be held at Purdue University in April 1-2, 2015. Currently, the SWAT model has been used by ESSP faculty n both NSF and USDA funded researches to study the impact of land use and climate change on […]

The ESSP Department welcomes Dr. Wai Wah Ng a new postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Ng will be working with Dr. Xiaodong Zhang on studying impact of regional climate change on water balance. This research is part of a five-year EPSCoR NSF award “Center for Regional Climate Study” a collaborative research project involving faculty of the ESSP […]

Dr. Xiaodong Zhang received $114,463, for the first installment of his three-year $446,583 NASA award entitled “Understanding Natural Variability of VSFs and its Impact on Biogeochemical retrieval for Ocean Color”.

Dr. Haochi Zheng received a three-year USDA-NIFA award entitled “Managing a Sustainable Landscape to Support Pollination and Other Ecosystems Services in the Northern Plains” in the amount of $362,013.

February 25, 2015 Dr. Robert Kelley President University of North Dakota After what will be 16 ½ years as the Dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, I have decided to retire effective June 30, 2016. I know this is somewhat early to make this announcement, but it is made in consideration […]

During August 2014 a five member research team from the Department of Geography (Dr. Greg Vandeberg, Christian Sovak, and Sami Swartz) and the Department of Earth System Science and Policy (Dr. Jeff VanLooy and Robbie MacDonald) at UND participated in a nine day field mission to Continental Glacier in the Wind River Range of Wyoming.  […]

The buoy measuring the water quality was launched in Devils Lake On Aug. 19, 2014. This is the 4th year of the field observation led by Dr. Xiaodong Zhang for monitoring both short- and long-term changes of water quality in Devils Lake. The real-time data acquired every 10 minutes can be accessed via http://www.wqdatalive.com/public/179. The launched […]

Dr. Andrei Kririlenko was awarded a UND Faculty Seed Money Award for the amount of $20,886 for his research project “People as sensors: Feasibility study on flood monitoring through Twitter communication data mining”.