The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is compiling and updating maps and databases about offshore sediment resources from Maine to Florida for use in post-hurricane beach replenishment. The cores from those offshore deposits are now being kept at the Lamont Core Repository.
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New York Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Lamont's Carlos Becerril talks with the New York Academy of Sciences about his team's work building ocean bottom seismometers as part of the Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool (OBSIP).
CBS News
Monday, October 31, 2016
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Italy on Oct. 30 following two smaller earthquakes a few days earlier and a devastating earthquake there in August. “Probably it's every hundred years you get a repeat of a series of earthquakes,” Lamont's Michael Steckler told CBS News.
Eos
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Looking ahead to looming water quantity shortfalls, Lamont's Yan Zheng argues that using reclaimed water for managed aquifer recharge needs to play a larger role in China’s water management strategies.
Washington Post
Thursday, October 20, 2016
U.S. and British science agencies announced a multimillion-dollar research mission to study Antarctica's enormous Thwaites Glacier, which could hold the potential for major sea level rise this century. Getting “up close and personal” with the glacier will help researchers close critical data and knowledge gaps, said Lamont's Robin Bell.
Huffington Post
Thursday, October 20, 2016
The wildfires that raged through the Western United States this year claimed lives, destroyed hundreds of homes and cost taxpayers millions of dollars. A new study from Columbia University's Park Williams has found that climate change has been exacerbating wildfires in the Western United States for decades.
Popular Science
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Lamont's carbon capture and storage project in Iceland that proved we could turn CO2 from a power plant to a solid mineral in a short period of time was listed among the greatest engineering innovations of 2016. The project was led by Juerg Matter and Martin Stute.
Eos
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Lamont's Heather Savage will receive AGU's 2016 Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. The award is for promising young scientists in recognition of outstanding contributions achieved during their Ph.D. research.
FiveThirtyEight
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
In a new study, Lamont's Park Williams estimates that human-caused climate change was responsible for nearly doubling the forest area that burned in the Western U.S. between 1984 and 2015. If the last few decades had been simply dry, instead of some of the hottest and driest on record, perhaps 10.4 million fewer acres would have burned, he says.
Huffington Post
Monday, October 17, 2016
A new study of letters of recommendation written for post-doctoral scientists found that professors were twice as likely to write glowing letters of recommendation, as opposed to letters reflecting a merely good candidate, for men compared to women. The study was led by Lamont's Kuheli Dutt.
Columbia Daily Spectator
Monday, October 17, 2016
The Columbia Spectator talks with Lamont geologist Peter Kelemen about his career, climate change, and climbing.
Pacific Standard
Monday, October 17, 2016
Deep in the Altai mountains, scientists are using drones and chemistry to study glacier-formed ridges that could help unlock the mysteries of abrupt climate change. Lamont's Adjunct Associate Research Professor Aaron Putnam and Lamont Research Professor Joerg Schaefer describe their work to Pacific Standard.
The New Yorker
Monday, October 17, 2016
The shrinking of Greenland’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis. Elizabeth Kolbert cites research by Lamont's Marco Tedesco.
Journal News
Friday, October 14, 2016
The U.S. Drought Monitor has placed Rockland County under a "severe drought." Rockland’s water sources are also stressed by an ever increasing population and lack of available space for new places to store water, making the county more vulnerable to short periods of decreased rainfall, said Lamont's Nicholas Christie-Blick.
Motherboard
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Using ancient leaves, Lamont's Tammo Reichgelt and Billy D'Andrea have found evidence of a CO2 spike at the time 23 million years ago when Antarctica's ice sheet began to melt.
AGU
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
The American Geophysical Union's 2016 election results are in. Among the incoming AGU leaders are Lamont's Robin Bell (president-elect), Kerstin Lehnert (director), and Robert F. Anderson (ocean sciences president-elect).
Mercury News
Monday, October 10, 2016
Climate change from human activity nearly doubled the area that burned in forest fires in the American West over the past 30 years, a major new scientific study by Lamont's Park Williams has found. Larger, more intense fires are all but guaranteed in the years ahead.
New York Times
Monday, October 10, 2016
A study by Lamont's Park Williams found that anthropogenic climate change was responsible for just over half of the total observed increase in fuel dryness since 1979. In turn, this influence has added more than 16,000 square miles of forest fire area to the western United States since 1984, nearly doubling the area scientists might have expected without the influence of similar climate change.
Scientific American
Saturday, October 8, 2016
“Rapid intensification of large hurricanes is something that the forecasters have a lot of trouble with. The models don’t predict it very well," said Lamont's Adam Sobel. "Before reaching Haiti, it [Hurricane Matthew] went from tropical storm to category 5 in just a little more than a day. It may be the biggest rapid intensification of an Atlantic storm on record.”
Forbes
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Forbes talks with Lamont's Suzana Camargo about Hurricane Matthew and what we know today about the connections between climate change and extreme weather.
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