Yoram Kaufman Obituary Appears in BAMS
January 30, 2007
This obituary article honoring Yoram Kaufman appeared in the December 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (Special thanks to Michael King, Lorraine Remer and Nadav Kaufman.) Full Story

Branch Research Featured in Our Changing Planet
January 26, 2007
The research on cloud drop clustering, "New Model of Cloud Drop Distribution that Simulates the Observed Drop Clustering," led by A. Marshak and W. Wiscombe from Goddard's Climate and Radiation Branch and Y. Knyazikhin from Boston University, has been highlighted in the US Climate Change Science Program for FY 2007 Our Changing Planet (see Pages 80 and 99). Full Story

MODIS Data Workshop
January 23, 2007
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in conjunction with the University of Maryland Baltimore County held a MODIS data workshop from January 8-10, 2007. The overbooked workshop was attended by 75 participants from all over the U.S. and also included visitors from as far away as Finland. The goal of the workshop was to help new and experienced users of MODIS data to learn, via presentations and hands-on activities, how to access, order, understand and analyze MODIS products. This was the first workshop of its kind in that it combined information from all of the MODIS product groups - Air, Land, and Atmosphere. Additional presentations included information on the AERONET sunphotometer network, the GIOVANNI suite of on-line MODIS analysis tools, NEO visualization and analysis tools, and ENVI/IDL analytical software. A similar workshop, to be held in Mexico this coming August, is in the planning stages. Full Story

Branch Annual Holiday Luncheon/Awards Ceremony
January 11, 2007
The Climate & Radiation Branch's annual holiday luncheon and awards ceremony was held on Friday, January 5, 2007. Most of the delicious (and oftentimes beautiful) main dish, salad and dessert items were prepared by our multi-cultural Branch members. A summary of the Branch's 2006 highlights was given by our Branch Head, Robert Cahalan. In addition, the following Branch members were recognized for their outstanding achievements in 2006:

Scientific Leadership: Qiang (Jack) Ji
Outstanding Scientific Support: Gregory Walker and Myeong-Jae Jeong
Outstanding Scientific Publication: Tamas Varnai
Outstanding Engineering Support: Dominik Cieslak
Outstanding Technical Support: Marcy August and Goran Halusa Full Story

AEROCENTER Annual Poster Session
January 10, 2007
AEROCENTER held its annual poster session on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 in the Building 33 lobby of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The session featured 12 posters from recent and upcoming meetings and conferences, such as the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco, CA during 11–15 December 2006, and the upcoming American Meteorological Society (AMS) 87th Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, TX during 14—18 January 2007. The AEROCENTER poster session was very well attended, with an estimated 50 participating aerosol and cloud scientists both from within GSFC and neighboring institutions, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA Headquarters, and the Universities of Maryland in College Park and Baltimore County. Visiting scientists from distant universities and institutions, notably, the University of Washington, Seattle (Tad Anderson) and Harvard University, Cambridge (Jun Wang) were also in attendance. Full Story