News

12/11/2023: Included in the “Data Connects Us” magazine – produced by the UA SVP-Research Office.

11/29/2023: Interviewed for the video prepared by Biosphere 2 for COP28 

4/26/2023: UA news release on hurricane prediction, followed by TV, radio, print, and online media, such as AP, US News and World Report, Fox Business.

4/12/2023: UA news releases our 3D wind paper.  followed by (TV, radio, print, and online) media coverage, selected as "AMS News You can Us" on 4/25/2023, and even highlighted by World Economic Forum on 4/24/2023  

4/11/2023: Phoenix 12News TV Interview on high-altitude balloons.

4/7/2023: Duluth Minnesota TV interview on snowmelt 

11/30/2022: Chief meteorologist in Houston announced that UA is the winner of the 2022 hurricane prediction

8/2/2022: Zeng gave an interview for 8.5 min at a TV program in UK on hurricane activities and insurance industry  

4/28/2022: UA new release on hurricane prediction on 4/28/2022, followed by various news media coverage, including during the coverage of President Biden's remarks on hurricane preparedness. 

3/31/2022: Zeng was interviewed for a story published by Yale Climate Connections on "What causes spring floods?" 

2/2/2022: Zeng was interviewed for the Sacramental Bee story on "Ski season wipes out" 

1/26/2022: Zeng gave a live interview on Cheddar TV on "Beijing 2022 Olympics going green" 

1/7/2022: Zeng was interviewed for a New York Times article on "Here is how climate change and Covid are transforming skiing" 

12/16/2021: Zeng was interviewed, and group members provided the data analysis, for the AP news article on "Since 1980s US chances of a white Christmas melt a bit"

11/9/2021: Xubin Zeng was interviewed for one hour on extreme events, cloud seeding, ocean deserts, and other topics for a podcast entitled "Ocean Deserts w/ Xubin Zeng". 

8/25/2021: Xubin Zeng published a news article "Is climate change to blame for extreme weather events? Attribution science says yes, for some – here’s how it works" in The Conversation. It was subsequently published by national and international news media, from yahoo news in the U.S. to media in Phillippines, Australia, India. Later, Zeng was interviewed by the Voice of America, which was broadcasted  in late October 2021 by Current Time TV.

7/12/2021: UA News Release on Mapping Extreme Snowmelt and its Potential Dangers. It was selected by "AMS News You Can Use" on 7/13/2021. Following this study, NPR reached out to us to provide our snowpack data in its story on "United States of Wildfires" on 8/10/2021. Later, Zeng was interviewed by the Voice of America, which was broadcasted in Russian in September 2021 by Current Time TV

6/2/2021: UA News Release on Record-breaking temperatures more likely in populated tropics. It was selected by "AMS News You Can Use" on 6/8/2021 and by "AGU in the News" on 6/17/2021. It was also featured by the World Economic Forum. 

5/4/2021: Xubin Zeng testified at the Congressional Hearing and answers to 10 different questions throughout the 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

4/21/2021: UA News Release on hurricane seasonal forecast, covered by Forbes, The Associated Press, and other national and international news media, and followed by AZPM radio interview.  

3/2021: With a publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) in 2021, BAMS also included a short interview with Xubin Zeng 

5/5/2020: UA News Release on Graduate student Josh Welty’s work on global soil moisture effect on precipitation occurrence. 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. 

4/21/2020: UA News Release on hurricane seasonal forecasts, followed by TV interview in Tucson. More than 10 news articles cited our hurricane forecasting in April/May 2020, including CNN. 

3/6/2020: 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. 

3/2019: Xubin Zeng and four group members were interviewed and featured by the Arizona PBS Horizon Program 

2/2/2019: New York Times published an Op-Ed entitled "Why can't rich people save winter?" using our study and our dataset to generate the graphics. 

12/12/2018: Xubin Zeng gave a press conference in Washington D.C.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.

9/27/2018: 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.

8/8/2018: Graduate student Josh Welty’s work on soil moisture effect on precipitation amount:UA news release, KGUN-9 TV Interview, Posted as a University Research headline on the DOE Office of Science homepage on 8/21/2018, and listed in "AMS News You Can Use" in the week of 20 August 2018.

6/14/2018: Our 2018 seasonal hurricane forecasting based on former group member Kyle Davis’ work: UA news release, Featured by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

9/11/2017: Our 2017 seasonal hurricane forecasting went exceptionally well and generated multiple media coverages: UA News release, Top story on the front page of Tucson Daily Star on 12/8/2017.

7/6/2017: Graduate student Jack Reeves Eyre’s work on Greenland air temperature: UA news release