volcanoes

Natural Hazards

PI(s):

Arthur L. Lerner-Lam

Earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought, cyclones and other natural hazards have significant potential to affect human lives and society.

Isotope Geochemistry Lab

PI(s):

Steven L. Goldstein

Welcome to the Isotope Geochemistry Lab at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

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Isotope Geochemistry Lab

	Name	Title	Fields of interest
	Louise Bolge	Associate Research Scientist
	Dallas Abbott	Adjunct Research Scientist
	Scott Nooner	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist

In a First, Scientists Successfully Forecast Undersea Eruption

August 09, 2011

Researchers returning from a cruise some 250 miles off the coast of Oregon have reported seeing a volcanic eruption on the seafloor that they accurately forecast five years ago—the first successful prediction of an undersea eruption. The event took place at Axial Seamount, one of the most active and intensely studied undersea peaks in the world.
Giant CO2 Eruptions in the Backyard?

February 18, 2011

Northern New Jersey, southern Connecticut and environs are not necessarily where one would expect to explore the onetime extinction of much life on earth, and subsequent rise of dinosaurs. But it turns out to be a pretty good place to start. Underlying the exurbs are geological formations left by three giant episodes of volcanism starting around 200 million years ago, and intervening layers of sediments that built up in the interims between massive lava flows.
Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall

November 03, 2010

Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that extended “volcanic winters” from gigantic blowups helped kill off dinosaurs and Neanderthals...
Explore Underwater Volcanoes, Seafloor Hot Springs and Methane Ice

August 19, 2010

Scientists are in the early stages of building a fiber optic network on the seafloor for observing, in real time, deep-sea hydrothermal vents---places where super-heated water and minerals spew from Earth's crust offering clues about how life on the planet may have began.
Volcanoes Cool the Tropics, Say Researchers

January 06, 2009

But Global Warming May Have Helped Override Some Recent Eruptions

Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20^th century by rising global temperatures
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Contributes Vital Research

January 05, 2005

The Maurice Ewing, owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO), is the only research vessel devoted to obtaining images of the deep earth for fundamental earth science research.


	Volcanoes and Vents: A Hidden World Beneath the Sea
	LDEO Open House	Welcomes Science and Nature Lovers of All Ages
	Water in Arc Magmas	Part of the Earth Science Colloquium Series