News & Updates

Former Student Featured by NASA

Dr. Drew Badger graduated with a PhD from the Climate Dynamics program at George Mason University in May 2015. After a post-doctoral...

Land Group Prominent in 6th Assessment

Working Group I's contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) titled: Climate...

Drought Prediction

NOAA's Climate Project Office is funding Profs. Paul Dirmeyer and Bohua Huang, along with Dr. Chul-Su Shin, to investigate the drivers of...

Bedrock to Boundary Layer

Prof. Paul Dirmeyer is part of a scoping study of observational facilities to advance Earth system monitoring and modeling, with emphasis...

Unprecedented L-A Feedbacks in 2018 European Heatwave

June 2021: The summer heatwave and drought that scorched northern Europe including Scandinavia and the British Isles saw unprecedented...

Two new NASA Projects

March 2021: In recent months, two new research projects sponsored by NASA have been awarded to the Land Group at GMU. The first project...

Benson receives summer fellowship

February 2021: PhD student David Benson has received a summer research Fellowship from the GMU Office of the Provost and Executive Vice...

Drought sensitivity to land surface conditions

November 2020: Dr. Chul-Su Shin, Prof. Bohua Huang and Prof. Paul Dirmeyer are investigating the role of land surface states in drought....