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CICS Receives $3M in Federal Funding
Aug. 29, 2012

The Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS)  recently received more than $3 million in new federal funding intended to support climate science and education. U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) announced the new support Aug. 27 with the funding coming from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Balaji Working at the Forefront of 'Exascale' Supercomputing
June 28, 2012

AOS Senior Professional Technical Specialist V. Balaji is one of three Princeton-based scientists awarded a grant by the Group of Eight's (G-8) Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding to aid in the development of the advanced software that will put the coming new generation of computers to work on solving…

Asian Emissions Contributing to Air Pollution in Western US
March 22, 2012

In a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, a team of researchers led by CICS Scientist and AOS Associate Research Scholar Meiyun Lin found that the contribution of Asian emissions to intercontinental pollution is higher than was previously believed.  

Isaac Held wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category
Jan. 31, 2012

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change was recently granted to Isaac Held, a lecturer with rank of Professor in the AOS program and senior research scientist at GFDL, “for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to our understanding of the structure of atmospheric circulation systems and the role of water vapor …