A Columbia Climate School Ph.D. student recounts a research expedition into an active volcano in the Aleutian Islands.
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September 14, 2021
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September 10, 2021
Experts from the Columbia Climate School have provided their insights and perspectives to journalists across the country trying to make sense of Hurricane Ida.
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September 09, 2021
Fast turnover of carbon between seawater and microbes is a fact, but how it works is largely a black hole. This projects aims to shed light.
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September 09, 2021
A new venture will leverage big data and many disciplines to create better estimates of future climate.
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September 08, 2021
Wu started her career in mathematics before coming to Lamont and applying it to climate change and atmospheric processes.
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September 08, 2021
Seismologist Won-Young Kim heard the first reports of the World Trade Center attacks in his car as he drove to Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on the west bank of the Hudson River 21 miles north of the attacks. Soon, he was inundated by calls from government officials and reporters. In the initial chaos, it was unclear exactly what had hit, and when; had the seismographs picked up anything?
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September 06, 2021
Interviews provide an emotional and thoughtful connection to others through discussing and sharing over topics that they might never have a chance to discuss otherwise.
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August 30, 2021
Disaster experts within the Earth Institute are available to answer questions from the media about hurricane physics, the role of climate change in creating strong storms, and more.
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August 29, 2021
When it comes to access to nature and environmental protection of these resources, environmental resources are all too often not allocated equitably.
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August 24, 2021
Earth Institute researchers are in the field studying the dynamics of the planet on every continent and every ocean. Here is a list of projects.
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August 19, 2021
Researchers have combined information about social vulnerability with data on mortgages, evictions, and threats from climate change. The new dataset will be freely available to other researchers.
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August 17, 2021
Researchers have reconstructed temperatures in Mongolia all the way back to 1269 C.E., showing that recent temperatures are the warmest the region has seen in eight centuries.
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August 16, 2021
The Earth Institute is offering undergraduate, graduate and PhD students opportunities to intern in various departments and research centers in a variety of administrative, communications and research roles.
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August 16, 2021
The Earth Institute is offering undergraduate students research assistant opportunities during the fall 2021 semester.
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August 12, 2021
A 2009-2018 analysis of 14 countries teases out the factors behind reversals in food security. Conflict, not drought, is behind much of it.
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