diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1a92ae4a..8b387eaa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [PEP 440](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/)
 and uses [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+
+## [0.9.3]
+### Fixed
+* @scottyhq fixed excessively verbose logging due to ISCE2 setting the root logger to `DEBUG` in [#176](https://github.com/ASFHyP3/hyp3-isce2/issues/176)
+
 ## [0.9.2]
 ### Fixed
 * `No annotation xml file` error in `insar_tops_burst` when processing HH pairs. Fixes [#168](https://github.com/ASFHyP3/hyp3-isce2/issues/168).
diff --git a/src/hyp3_isce2/__init__.py b/src/hyp3_isce2/__init__.py
index 1f987c08..9115e69b 100644
--- a/src/hyp3_isce2/__init__.py
+++ b/src/hyp3_isce2/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """HyP3 plugin for ISCE2 processing"""
+import logging
 import os
 from importlib.metadata import version
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -6,13 +7,18 @@
 # Ensures all ISCE2 paths and environment variables are set when using this module, see:
 # https://github.com/isce-framework/isce2/blob/main/__init__.py#L41-L50
 import isce  # noqa: F401
+
+# ISCE2 sets the root logger to DEBUG resulting in excessively verbose logging, see:
+# https://github.com/isce-framework/isce2/issues/258
+root_logger = logging.getLogger()
+root_logger.setLevel('WARNING')
+
 # ISCE2 also needs its applications to be on the system path, even though they say it's only "for convenience", see:
 # https://github.com/isce-framework/isce2#setup-your-environment
 ISCE_APPLICATIONS = str(Path(os.environ['ISCE_HOME']) / 'applications')
 if ISCE_APPLICATIONS not in (PATH := os.environ['PATH'].split(os.pathsep)):
     os.environ['PATH'] = os.pathsep.join([ISCE_APPLICATIONS] + PATH)
 
-
 __version__ = version(__name__)
 
 __all__ = [