The Alumni Board: Greetings from the President

The LDEO Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes you to our corner of the LDEO website. In this ongoing pandemic, the internet has become even more important in pulling us all together and keeping us connected.

The Board met recently and is currently working on putting together two events for spring 2021, to enhance networking between our current students and alumni: a career panel discussion, and our annual Distinguished Alumni Colloquium speaker visit. Stay tuned for more details as plans develop.

We are also pleased to report that as the Board of Directors of the LDEO Alumni Association, we enthusiastically support the recent Statement on Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's Commitment to Anti-Racism and Institutional Change made by campus leaders from LDEO and DEES, and similar statements from Columbia University leadership. Progress towards inclusion and equality requires all of us to acknowledge the lasting inequality in our society and contribute effort to support systemic change. This is not always easy or pleasant but is necessary for a peaceful and just society.

I hope you will join us in our ongoing support for LDEO and its mission. If you can think of any way you would like to get involved with the Alumni Association, please contact me or Stacey Vassallo in the Development Office – and thank you!

Regards,

E. Christa Farmer (Ph.D. 2005)