Projects and Initiatives

In this annual fall event school groups all along the Hudson River estuary go down to the river's edge to collect scientific information and share it to creat

A detailed (ca. 100 yr resolution) and well-dated (31 AMS 14C dates to 24 cal.

Scientists from several nations are working together to launch a flagship program to explore a major mountain range buried by a large continental ice sheet and bounded by numerous subglacial lakes.

Our project will focus on the subduction zone off southern Alaska, which produces large and destructive earthquakes.

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Data Portal provides access to geoscience data, primarily marine, from the Antarctic region.

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Global warming is abruptly redrawing parts of Antarctica’s coastline, as ice shelves collapse into the sea.

The Bamboo Bike Project is a project by Scientists and Engineers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, a

This projects aims to calibrate the seismic sources to be used by the R/V Marcus Langseth to better understand and quantify the safety radii that should be used for permitting purposes when conduct

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Sequestration of CO₂ generated by power plants by injection into deep aquifers (geological sequestration) has been proposed as a possible alternative for the reduction of excessive green

Project Website for CAT/SCAN: Calabria-Apennine-Tyrrhenian/Subduction-Collision-Accretion Network

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The mission of the Columbia Center for Hazards and Risk Research is to advance the predictive science of natural and environmental hazards and the integration of science with hazard ri

Oceanic Volcanic Plateaus are a submarine form of Large Igneous Provinces.

Columbia University offers a dual master's degree program in Earth & Environmental Science Journalism.

EarthView Explorer computer software was designed as supplemental material for teaching and learning in the Earth Sciences for students in grades 6-12.

Interests, resumes, bibliographies and pdfs of recent papers for experimental petrology group

Increased wildfires are predicted to accompany ongoing climate change. Yet, little evidence exists supporting this hypothesis.

 We think that learning from data is an inherently rewarding activity, and a habit of mind that is ke

During the summer of 2006, the main activities of the research project known as the Harvard Centroid-Moment-Tensor (CMT) Project moved with Principal Investigator Göran Ekström from Harv

Dimming the Sun ...

 Two questions about learning that are central to, and characteristic of, geoscience education are: 1)How do people learn by direct observation of Nature in the field?

The Center for River and Estuaries is an association of scientists from Columbia University that study various aspects of rivers and estuaries world wide including the distribution of sediments, th

Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but still today we do not know the true death toll. Just how many people lost their lives as a result of that tragic event?

 This project will develop an integrated ice imaging system capable of measuring in detail both the ice surface and the ice bed. TheicePod system will be installed and operated on New York Air National Guard LC-130 aircraft during routine and targeted missions across Antarctica and Greenland as a shared community research facility providing data to scientists and educators globally. The fundamental data sets produced by the icePod system are necessary to support the development of accurate ice sheet models to predict sea level rise. The icePod system will consist of a suite of imaging sensors mounted in an external pod carried on New York Air National Guard LC-130’s to map the surface and subsurface ice topography of ice sheets, ice streams and outlet glaciers. 

LACOP measures levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at several observation sites.

Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network (LCSN) monitors earthquakes which occur primarily in the Eastern United States.

Monthly forecasts of tropical Pacific SST and wind anomalies.

Lean Management for Oil and Gas in the Ultra Deep Gulf of Mexico.

Continental margins are the Earth's principal loci for producing hydrocarbon and metal resources, for earthquake, landslide, volcanic and climatic hazards, and for the greatest population density.

Access cruise information and data collected during Ridge2000 funded projects.

Long term monitoring of the Indonesian ThrouFlow (ITF):

The MOOS experiment seeks to understand the structure and dynamics of subduction in the region of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, one of the three largest recorded (Mw 9.2), where terrane collision is

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Wireline logs were acquired at seven sites in the Newark Rift basin using dipmeter, gamma ray, resistivity, ve

Writing in July 2010 when the eastern U.S. has been having one heat wave after another, it is easy to forget the winter just past, but winter 2009/10 was one of record snow in much of the mid-Atlantic region and very cold conditions across eastern North America. There was also widespread cold and snow in northwestern Europe.  At the time, as record snowfall hit Washington D.C., this was a big deal much exploited by climate deniers and others to ridicule global warming and climate science.

How much CO₂ from human activity enters the ocean?

Describes global research using vegetation shifts to reconstruct local and regional changes in the landscape due to climate and/or anthropogenic influence.

PetDB archives and serves analytical data for whole rocks, glasses, minerals, melt inclusions, with emphasis on basalts and abyssal peridotites.

Students often wonder how local planning issues can be of concern to them. They don't own property, they don't pay property taxes, most don't yet vote...isn't this someone elses issue? The truth is this issue is very much connected to young people. The P.L.U.S. program is designed to show students why, and how to take advantage of this connection to offer their input.  Students work in teams with students from other schools in their community to examine important land planning questions. 

This project develops and implements real-time, high-precision earthquake location algorithms for use in operational seismic monitoring procedures.

 Rocks and ice are slip-sliding away in the LDEO Rock Mechanics lab.

SCICEX was a 5 year program (1995-1999) in which the Navy has made available a Sturgeon-class, nuclear powered, attack submarine for unclassified science cruises to the Arctic Ocean.

Lamont Doherty's Secondary School Field Research Program engages High School teachers and students as science interns, working with Lamont scientists.  We operate a 6-week full-time summer int

Access to marine seismic reflection images, navigation, acquisition parameters and field data.

A US-led program to use process studies to improve quantification of air-sea CO2 fluxes and the gas transfer velocity was initiated in 1998.  So far, two large-scale studies have been conducte

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This project will synthesize existing knowledge and articulate unanswered questions in critical areas of research on cognition and learning relevant to the Geosciences.

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The ocean, unlike the globally enveloping atmosphere is segmented into seas, interconnected with passages of varied dimensions.

The Ecophysiology group studies the physiological mechanisms underlying plant responses to environmental conditions and the influence these responses have on ecological pa

 This project is a collaboration between several US and Turkish research institutes to study the tectonics of the Marmara Sea.

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