UMBC professor Maryam Rahnemoonfar is leading work to analyze data on melting polar ice, and what it means for sea-level rise. Called iHARP, the institute received a $13 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
One might think the favorite spot in the home of Vice Admiral Walter E. "Ted" Carter, Jr., the 62nd superintendent of the Naval Academy, would be an office filled with blinking computers, shelves of model ships or a library.