We continued our GPS surveys of monuments to measure land subsidence. While the work generally went very well, we faced challenges from obscured or tilted monuments. We also struggled with large traffic delays, particularly at unpredictable ferry crossings.
News and Events
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January 10, 2020
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January 09, 2020
Getting to remote sites started to prove challenging, and involved many forms of transportation by land and water.
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January 08, 2020
A new study uncovers a previously undocumented relationship between erosion and wind speed.
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January 04, 2020
Lamont scientist Mike Steckler is back in Bangladesh to investigate the balance between sea level rise, sinking of the land, and filling of the space with sediments, using precision GPS to measure how much geodetic monuments have sunk or subsided over the 18 years since they were installed.
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January 02, 2020
Evidence suggests that this major ocean current, which influences the weather in parts of Europe and the U.S., is already changing.
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December 27, 2019
And how to protect yourself from them.
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December 20, 2019
The PlastiX-Snow project will track microplastics that contaminate Earth’s most remote and pristine locations.
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December 20, 2019
Report finds extreme heat, coastal storm surge, inland flooding, and more violent storms will significantly impact the energy systems of the New York City area in the 21st century.
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December 18, 2019
Warming temperatures create two major drying trends, jeopardizing corn and soybean crops.
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December 17, 2019
Tropical fossils found in a Greenland ice core hint at volcanic eruptions that threw the world into darkness from 536 to 537 A.D.
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December 17, 2019
Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. It may have lessons for Brexit-era politics.
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December 11, 2019
The project earned grad student Anna Barth a grand prize in the American Geophysical Union’s competition on Data Visualization and Storytelling.
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December 11, 2019
A variety of undergraduate research assistant positions are available. Apply by January 29, 2020.
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December 09, 2019
Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the northern jet stream that cause simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated regions–a previously unknown threat to global food production that could worsen with global warming.
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December 09, 2019
The “walking rock” track suggests that a massive volcanic winter may have frozen the tropics during the dawn of the dinosaur age.
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