HUPAS student, GSAAS member and BCCSO scholar, Churchill Okonkwo has been awarded 2nd place for his poster at the 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of the NSBP and NSHP.  His research is on the "Spatial Characteristics of Hydrometeorological Variables and Drought Hazard Mapping in Lake Chad Basin." Congrats and keep up the good work!

GSAAS and HUPAS members Churchill Okonkwo and Sium Tesfai will be presenting their research at the 2011 Joint Annual Conference of NSBP (National Society of Black Physicists) and NSHP (National Society of Hispanic Physicists) in Austin, TX this week.  The conference runs from Wednesday, September 21 to Saturday, September 24 and is held at the Renaissance Austin Hotel.

The poster presentation Churchill will be presenting is entitled "Spatial Characteristics of Hydrometeorological Variables and Drought Hazard Mapping in Lake Chad Basin."

For more information on the conference, check out this link.

Good luck Bison!

GSAAS will be holding a Student Assembly on Thursday, September 15, 2011.

Below is the flyer for the event:

Let your voice be heard students (new and old) of HUPAS (Howard University Program of Atmospheric Sciences)!

For more information, contact [email protected].

The June 2011 cover of BAMS (the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) Volume 92 Issue 6, features former secretary of GSAAS Cassie Sterns, along with Howard University professor Dr. Vernon Morris.

The article Multiyear Observations of the Tropical Atlantic Atmosphere: Multidisciplinary
Applications of the NOAA Aerosols and Ocean Science Expeditions is written by Nicholas R. Nalli, Everette
Joseph, Vernon R. Morris, Christopher D. Barnet, Walter W. Wolf, Daniel  Wolfe, Peter J. Minnett, Malgorzata Szczodrak, Miguel A. Izaguirre, Rick Lumpkin, Hua Xie, Alexander Smirnov, Thomas S. King, and Jennifer Wei, and is featured in the bulletin. GSAAS members Cassie Sterns, Mayra Oyola and Adrian Flores are mentioned in the article as well.

Check out the abstract and here is the article!

Great job everyone!

GSAAS president Mayra Oyola and members of the AERosols and Oceans Science Expedition (AEROSE) team, have set sail today aboard the Ronald H. Brown for AERosols and Oceans Science Expedition VII.

In the words of Dr. Everette Joseph, the expedition is a "40-day, cross Atlantic voyage, down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town, South Africa to help study the chemical and radioactive impacts of Saharan dust and biomass burning outflows on AEROSE.”

To read more about the expedition, click here. AEROSE is also on Twitter. To follow them click here.

See you all in September!

Our new website is now launched.

Our previous was with Tripod, which can be found here: http://gsaas.tripod.com/, we have now moved to Weebly.

We will be updating the site frequently, so check back!

Enjoy our new site! :-)

Members of GSAAS along with students from other local schools, help in NASA's project to improve air quality.

Check out the article and the interview!

From MyFoxDC

"No, that's wasn’t a UFO in the skies above Maryland!
If you were driving along the I-95 corridor in Maryland Sunday, you might have seen a mysterious, low-flying aircraft overhead.
It was part of a NASA experiment aimed at helping to improve the air we breathe.
Scientists from some area colleges, including Howard University, the University of Maryland, Penn State and Lincoln University, were helping NASA monitor air quality.
The space agency sent up a four-engine, P-3B turboprop plane that flew a corkscrew pattern over six area ground monitoring stations, from the DC Beltway to northeast of Baltimore.
They were sampling ozone and other pollutants in the atmosphere. NASA hopes its multi-year study will help improve the ability of satellites to detect pollution near the ground, so they can better predict and control it.
Sunday's air quality levels measured above 78 parts per billion, in the Code Yellow range."

Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/low-flying-planes-in-maryland-on-sunday#ixzz1RtVwRfth

We're now on Flickr. Check out our photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsaashu/sets/.

GSAAS is now on Twitter! Follow us at http://twitter.com/#!/GSAASHU.