Projects and Initiatives

Understanding the role of climate change on African faunal evolution

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.

This project is the continued analysis of seismic data collected on a 4x4 km array of ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) deployed at the Ridge 2000 Integrated Study Site at 9°50'N on the East Pacific R

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

Antarctic sea ice seasonal forecasts based on a linear Markov model are in high demand for both observational and climate communities. They are provided by Xiaojun Yuan and Dake Chen.

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

The "Bridging the Poles" workshop brought educators, scientists and media specialists together to focus on building stronger partnerships between Arctic and Antarctic communities, and bet

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

We propose a passive broad-band seismic experiment in northwestern Canada, a setting in which fundamental questions regarding the structure and dynamics of the mantle's upper and lower boundary lay

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

Seismic imaging of active UHP exhumation in eastern Papua New Guinea

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

Activities and Links for K-12 children interested in oceanography and the climate

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

CCORC - Consortium on the Ocean's Role in Climate
ARCHES - AbRupt climate CHangE Studies

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Deep-Sea Sample Repository is both an archive of sediment and rocks from beneath the ocean floor, and an archive of the digital data pertaining to the material.

Earth2Class (Earth to Class/E2C) is a unique professional development program created jointly by classroom teachers, research scientists, a

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

Members of our group work on a variety of projects including studies of water movement in natural systems (ocean, groundwater), reconstruction of continental paleotemperature

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

Fairbanks' Lab is a list of Richard Fairbanks' Research Pages with Radiocarbon Calibration

Using geophysical instruments, GAMBIT will peal back more than 600 meters of ice to explore the last hidden mountain range on Earth.

GEOTRACES is an international study of the global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes. Its mission is:

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 ...

A monitoring program was initiated in 2001 to monitor the Hudson River's basic state variables of salinity, temperature and density along transects from New York Harbor to Troy.

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?

 The Ice Sheets at both poles are changing - shrinking at increasing rates - rates that are faster than was ever expected by scientists.

Integrated reconnaissance of the physical and biogeochemical characteristics of Jamaica Bay, New York.

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

Lake Vostok: A Curiosity or a Focus for Interdisciplinary Study?   A workshop sponsored by  U.S. National Science Foundation. 

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.

LDEO surface processes (geomorphology & remote sensing) group web server, in order to disseminate our work to the geomorphology and hydrology research communities and beyond. 

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

LODOS: Laboratory for Ocean Drilling, Observation, and Sampling. The purpose of LODOS is to expand and facilitate drilling-related science and education at Lamont.

MB-System is an open source software package for the processing and display of bathymetry and backscatter imagery data derived f

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.

Unified data portal for the NSF Ridge 2000 program, MARGINS program, Marine Seismic Reflection data, Antarctic Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis, and RIDGE Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis; includes Geo

Access cruise information and data collected during Ridge2000 funded projects.

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

Inter-division Event for International Polar Year.

How can you make glacier goo?

How can you make a snow shelter?

Look for fossils in your own yard!

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

Research led by Richard Seager describes a modeling and paleoclimate perspective on the causes of North American droughts.

Lamont-Doherty Nuclear Test Ban Monitoring Research.

How much CO₂ from human activity enters the ocean?

Dust influences climate by altering the radiation budget of the atmosphere, and influences marine biogeochemistry by providing a source of essential micronutrients such as iron.

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

Underwater acoustic studies related to undersea earthquakes, marine mammals, Antarctic ice-sheets, ocean noise and explosion monitoring.

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

PETRO is the new oil and gas division of Lamont's corporate affiliates program.

Methodology for simulating basin stratigraphy and structure.

Mutibeam Bathymetry data from the global Mid-Ocean Ridge with access to related data.

Welcome to the presense of the SCAMP component of the SCICEX program on the World Wide Web. An underway geophysical survey from nuclear submarines in the Arctic.

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.

Deployment of a wide-band OBS in the Gulf of California from the R/V New Horizon in Oct 2005.  Seismometer is housed in the green sphere, while recording, power, and communication

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

SedDB complements current geological data systems (PetDB, EarthChem, NavDat and GEOROC) with an integrated compilation of geochemistry of marine

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

The ring of deep water around Antarctica not only links the major ocean [Atlantic/Pacific/Indian] , but also produces dense waters along the continental margins of the frozen continent, which sinks

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

The Gulf Stream-European climate myth

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

Tree-Ring Lab (TRL) scientists are dedicated to expanding the use and application of tree-ring research around the world to improve our understanding of past climate and environmental history.

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

Virtual Ocean integrates the GeoMapApp tool suite and the NASA World Wind 3-D

An airborne geophysical program over West Antarctica was designed to study the linkage between the West Antarctic Rift System and the dynamic evolution of the overlying West Antarctic Ice Sheet.