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Richard Marcelain earned the Spring 2021 Excellence in Service Award from the College of Science.
News Media Coverage
Our group's activities have generated news media (print, online,TV, radio) coverage since 2008. Here are some of the stories since 2017:
Xubin Zeng begins to Co-Chair the Global Energy and Water Exchange (GEWEX) Scientific Steering Group, starting from May 2021.
Xubin Zeng testified at the Congressional Hearing on "Climate and Energy Science Research at the Department of Energy" held by the Subcommittee on Energy of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on May 4, 2021 at 11:00am EDT.
UA News Release on hurricane seasonal forecast on 4/21/2020, covered by Forbes, The Associated Press, and other national and international news media, and followed by AZPM radio interview.
With a publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) in 2021, BAMS also included a short interview with Xubin Zeng along with his photo.
Xubin Zeng received the Charles Franklin Brooks Award in January 2021 from the American Meteorological Society “For skillful and effective service in senior leadership roles that has materially improved the Society’s meetings and other activities.” His acceptance speech can be found here.
UA News Release on Graduate student Josh Welty’s work (Welty et al. 2020) on global soil moisture effect on precipitation occurrence on 5/5/2020. Besides news media coverage, this piece was selected by “AMS News You can Use” on 5/12/2020 and 6/30/2020 and “AGU in the News” on 5/14/2020.
UA News Release on hurricane seasonal forecasts on 4/21/2020, followed by TV interview in Tucson. More than 10 news articles cited our hurricane forecasting in April/May 2020, including CNN.
Nominated by the NASA science leadership to participate in the AGU Centennial Narratives Project during the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting, Xubin Zeng's 25-min interview was added to the AGU Narratives Community on StoryCorps, archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress on 3/6/2020, and featured on the 8/25/2020 AGU Career Center weekly email.
Our $30M/5 year NASA ACTIVATE EVS-3 project on aerosol-cloud interactions passed the Investigation Confirmation Review at NASA Headquarters on 10/18/2019
Former group member, Dr. Furrukh Bashir, discussed glaciers with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on 10/16/2019.
Xubin Zeng and four group members were interviewed and featured by the Arizona PBS Horizon Program in March 2019.
New York Times published an Op-Ed entitled "Why can't rich people save winter?" on 2/2/2019 using our study (Zeng et al. 2018) and our dataset to generate the graphics.
Tucson Daily Star published articles on Sunday 1/13/2019, featuring some of the UA College of Science Galileo Circle Fellows, including Xubin Zeng.
Xubin Zeng Co-Chaired the 99th AMS Annual Meeting of 3800 attendees from 6-10 January 2019 in Phoenix, AZ in the midst of U.S. Government shutdown.
Xubin Zeng gave a press conference in Washington D.C. on 12/12/2018 during the AGU Centennial Fall Meeting on the changing snowpack over U.S. The University of Arizona also released a News Story along with local, regional, and national media coverage.
Xubin Zeng received the Outstanding Alum Award from the Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science on 12/7/2018 and gave an invited presentation.
AAAS announced on 11/27/2018 that Xubin Zeng is elected AAAS Fellow with a University of Arizona News Release.
Two UA professors (PI: Armin Sorooshian, deputy PI: Xubin Zeng) just won a $30M/5 year NASA project on 9/25/2018: to quantify the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction by making measurements using two aircraft in formation over western North Atlantic, and to improve the treatment of
aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in weather and climate models.
University of Arizona news release on 9/27/2018
Graduate student Josh Welty’s work (Welty and Zeng 2018) on soil moisture effect on precipitation amount:
University of Arizona (UA) news release on 8/8/2018
Posted as a University Research headline on the DOE Office of Science homepage on 8/21/2018
listed in "AMS News You Can Use" in the week of 20 August 2018
Our 2018 seasonal hurricane forecasting based on former group member Kyle Davis’ work [Davis et al. (2015) and Davis and Zeng (2019)]:
University of Arizona (UA) news release on 6/14/2018
Featured by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Tucson Daily Star, AZPM radio
Graduate student Charlie Devine did an interview in USGIF's Trajectory Magazine on 4/5/2018
Our 2017 seasonal hurricane forecasting went exceptionally well and generated multiple media coverages:
Top story on the front page of Tucson Daily Star on 12/8/2017
KGUN-9 TV interview on 9/21/2017
UA News release on 9/11/2017
Graduate student Jack Reeves Eyre’s work (Reeves Eyre and Zeng 2017) on Greenland air temperature:
University of Arizona (UA) news release on 7/6/2017
AZPM radio interview
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