For decades, scientists believed that the Greenland Ice Sheet is relatively stable compared with the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Two Lamont scientists questioned this assumption about Greenland’s ice and wanted to take a much closer look.
Research News 2018
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April 23, 2018
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April 13, 2018
Coastal waters play an important role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon into sediments or transferring it to the open ocean, a new study confirms.
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April 11, 2018
Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farming and other pursuits could be huge.
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April 10, 2018
Alexandria Ang, a former intern at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will present her scientific discoveries for a chance to win some major prizes.
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April 06, 2018
Sykes helped to establish plate tectonic theory in the 1960s. He is professor emeritus at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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March 29, 2018Scientists are collecting lake sediment, rock, water and plant samples to explore linkages among Arctic sea ice, atmospheric uptake, and changes in snowfall on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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March 21, 2018
Lead poisoning has been in the news often over the last few years. Local high school students are helping Lamont scientists test lead exposure levels from lead-contaminated soils in New York City.
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March 19, 2018
What does it take for palm trees to expand into northern parts of the world that have long been too cold for palm trees to survive? A new study, led by Lamont researcher Tammo Reichgelt, attempts to answer this question.
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March 15, 2018
A generous donation of marine seismic technology equipment from CGG Inc. is enabling Lamont to advance its world-class ocean research capacities and opens the door to new areas of sub-seafloor exploration, including an expanded understanding of the undersea dynamics of earthquakes and tsunamis as well as climate science and impacts of sea level change.
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March 13, 2018
Salinity in the North Atlantic dropped markedly over the last decade, according to a new study that used data from a floating network of sensors to obtain the most detailed picture yet of changing ocean conditions in the region.
But researchers say it’s too soon to say whether the decline is due to an influx of freshwater from melting ice on land or sea, or part of a natural, longer-term cycle.
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March 08, 2018
Lamont’s Robin Bell is one of the world’s leading polar investigators and has been tracking ice for thirty years. She has coordinated ten expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland. And although she took her first expedition to Antarctica back in the 1980s, there is nothing routine about her approach.
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March 01, 2018
The death of coral reefs is a more significant factor in the erosion of tropical coastlines than rising sea levels, a new international study has revealed.
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February 27, 2018
Citizen scientists can gather data to help uncover how snow is changing over time.
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February 19, 2018
In a new study, researchers have mapped out a large variety of discarded pharmaceuticals dissolved throughout the Hudson River. They say that in some places, levels may be high enough to potentially affect aquatic life.
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February 14, 2018
On every continent and every ocean, Lamont researchers are studying climate, geology, natural hazards, ecology and more. Here is a list of projects in rough chronological order.
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February 12, 2018
Braving the high seas and a curious shark, a team of scientists taps into the secret social life of a microbe that’s crucial for marine ecosystems.
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January 31, 2018
On January 31 at 1:00 p.m. EST, Lamont-Doherty’s Hugh Ducklow and his colleagues will use National Science Foundation social media to discuss their research on Antarctic ecology.
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January 24, 2018
You could say goodbye to the atmosphere and GPS navigation, to start.
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January 19, 2018
Researchers create first model for hurricane hazard assessment that is both open source and capable of accounting for climate change.
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January 16, 2018
Working as an Antarctic field scientist, I witnessed the destruction provoked by a rapidly warming planet. But I also found inspiration.
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January 13, 2018Lamont climate scientist Deepti Singh explains the dynamics behind January’s extreme winter weather and how climate change may have been a contributing factor.
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January 11, 2018
As the Arctic warms, the unfreezing of permafrost poses a threat to the planet.
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January 10, 2018
Rainfall changes caused by global warming will increase river flooding risks across the globe by the 2040s, says a new study. The study finds that the increases will be greatest in much of the United States, central Europe, Indonesia, and parts of India and Africa.
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January 08, 2018
A new study shows how ambient seismic noise can help understand how the strength of tropical cyclones is being modified by climate change.
