The week began with our annual Awards Recognition Ceremony, a celebration of the awards in research and education received by our colleagues during calendar 2016. The ceremony was held as part of a reception in the Monell Lower Lobby. The honorees included the following:
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Ryan Abernathey |
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), NSF, 2016 |
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Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2016 |
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Alexandra Boghosian |
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Alejandra Borunda |
Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation, 2016 |
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Steven Boswell |
STEM Chateaubriand Fellow, French Government, 2016 |
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Julius Busecke |
Outstanding Student Paper Award, Ocean Sciences Section, AGU, 2016 |
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CIESIN |
New York of Science, Design I/O, CIESIN, Science Media Award, Interactive Category, Jackson Hole Wild and WGBH Boston, 2016 |
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Olivia Clifton |
First Place Oral Presentation, Third Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, American Meteorological Society, 2016 |
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Kassandra Costa |
Goodfriend Award, Best Student Paper in Paoleoclimate, DEES, 2016 |
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Zach Eilon |
GeoPRISMS Student Prize, Poster Presentation, AGU 2016 |
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Megan Freiberger |
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Elisabeth Gawthrop |
Stabile Fellow, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2016 |
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Laura Haynes |
Sara Langer Book Prize for Contributions to Student Life, DEES, 2016 |
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Bärbel Hönisch |
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, Columbia University, 2016 |
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Helen Janiszewski |
GeoPRISMS, Honorable Mention Oral Presentation, AGU, 2016 |
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Outstanding Student Paper, Tectonophysics Section, AGU, 2016 |
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Allison Jacobel |
Goodfriend Award, Best Student Paper in Paoleoclimate, DEES, 2016 |
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Xiaomeng Jin |
Outstanding Student Paper, Atmospheric Sciences Section, AGU, 2016 |
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Michael Kaplan |
Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar, 2016 |
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Sean Kinney |
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Tierney Larson |
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Tianjia (Tina) Liu |
Outstanding Student Paper, AGU 2016 |
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Josh Maurer |
Earth and Space Fellowship, NASA, 2016 |
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Jerry McManus |
Dansgaard Award, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group, AGU, 2016 |
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Ángel Muñoz |
Orden de la Zulianidad Award for “Outstanding Contributions to Society”, Venezuela, 2016 |
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Francesco Muschitiello |
Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award, European Geosciences Union, 2016 |
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Megan Newcombe |
GeoPRISMS Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Robert Newton |
Excellence in Mentoring Award, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 2016 |
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Kira Olsen |
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Outstanding Student Paper, Cryosphere Section, AGU 2016 |
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Samuel Phelps |
STEM Chateaubriand Fellow, French Government, 2016 |
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Angelica Patterson |
Campbell Award, Columbia University, 2016 |
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Terry Plank |
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016 |
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Catherine Pomposi |
Science for Society Award, DEES, 2016 |
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Hannah Rabinowitz |
Bruce Heezen Memorial Prize, DEES, 2016 |
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Daniel Rasmussen |
Outstanding Student Paper, Tectonophysics Section, AGU, 2016 |
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GeoPRISMS Student Prize, Best Poster Presentation, AGU, 2016 |
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Maureen Raymo |
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2016 |
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Dennis-Didier Rousseau |
Hans Oeschger Medal, European Geosciences Union, 2016 |
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Heather Savage |
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award, Mineral and Rock Physics Focus Group, AGU, 2016 |
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Peter Schlosser |
Member, German National Academy of Sciences, 2016 |
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Christine Sprunger |
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Maya Tolstoy |
Birch Lecturer, Tectonophysics Section, AGU, 2016 |
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Margie Turrin |
Distinguished Service Award, Rockland County Municipal Planning Federation, 2016 |
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Rebecca Trinh |
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016 |
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Maayan Yehudai |
Outstanding Student Paper Award, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology section, AGU, 2016 |
Late last week, Eos published an article coauthored by Brad Linsley on the Marine Annually Resolved Proxy Archive (MARPA), a community effort to archive and describe marine samples that record paleoclimate information (https://eos.org/project-updates/saving-our-marine-archives). The coral archive in the Lamont Core Repository is prominently featured in the article.
On Tuesday, I met with Lamont’s Associate Directors and Division Administrators to hear summaries of the financial health of each division and early estimates of federal and private grant income for the coming fiscal year. Attending the meeting were Nina Aguilar, Bonnie Bonkowski, Roger Buck, Kathy Callahan, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Jean Economos, Julia Eiferman, Jim Gaherty, Dave Goldberg, Steve Goldstein, Sean Higgins, Art Lerner-Lam, Lori McCaleb, Edie Miller, Vicky Nazario, Linette Sandoval-Rzepka, Kim Schermerhorn, Moanna St. Clair, June Tallon, Mingfang Ting, and Sandra Tiwari. Given the extraordinary state of uncertainty over federal science agency budgets this year and next, Lamont’s 2018 budget will be one that fits the Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
On Wednesday, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics published a paper coauthored by Arlene Fiore on the distribution of surface ozone across the U.S. during the period 1980-2014. On the basis of both observations and coupled models of atmospheric chemistry and climate, Arlene and her collaborators found that increased emissions of nitrogen oxides from Asia have led to increases in surface ozone in the western U.S. that have outpaced the reductions effected by stricter emission controls in this country. Surface ozone levels in the eastern U.S. have generally declined over the study period, but they have spiked during heat waves. A story on the paper’s findings was posted Wednesday on Science Blog (https://scienceblog.com/492582/asian-pollution-heat-waves-worsen-u-s-smog/).
Also on Wednesday, I flew to London for a retreat of Columbia University’s Trustees on Friday and a meeting of President Lee Bollinger’s Global Leadership Council on Monday. The primary agenda topic at both meetings will be a proposal to endorse and launch the Columbia World Projects concept.
The Lamont Open House will once again be an annual event. Discussions with the development and events staff at the Observatory and the Earth Institute underscored the multiple advantages for outreach, education, and the engagement of sponsors of returning to an annual cadence. The next Lamont Open House will be on Saturday, 7 October 2017. Please hold the date and plan to participate!
Today’s Earth Science Colloquium will be given by seismologist and marine geophysicist William Wilcock, a Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington (http://faculty.washington.edu/wilcock/). William will be speaking on “Cabled seafloor observatories and the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount.” Unless you are cabled to your desk, I hope that you will be able to hear what he has to say.
Sean