Asheville, NC gets new climate institute

From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):

NOAA scientists have teamed up with experts from the University of Maryland and North Carolina State University to form the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites. The new institute will use satellite observations to detect, monitor and forecast climate change, and its impact on the environment, including ecosystems.

"To help us understand climate change, we have to find ways to best leverage all of our available resources, including the information we get from satellites," said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA's Satellite and Information Science. "Bringing together some of the best minds to study satellite imagery and data will shed more light on how our climate is changing."

The institute will have two centers - one in College Park, Md., adjacent to the site of the planned NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, and the other at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.