By working a 16-hour day, we managed to get both GPS and SETs completed at our first field site. We then sailed into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest, the world’s largest, to visit an existing site and make measurements.
News and Events
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July 24, 2019
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July 24, 2019
Climate scientists often invoke the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age as natural worldwide climate swings predating human influences. They may not have worked the way we think.
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July 24, 2019
Study picks apart factors that caused severe, long-lasting droughts and suggests increased risk for future.
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July 23, 2019
I am back in Bangladesh for a new project examining the balance between sea level rise, land subsidence and sedimentation. We will be installing, repairing or upgrading equipment to measure changes to the landscape.
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July 22, 2019
A new study reveals how local factors influence the Ross Ice Shelf’s stability, refining predictions of how it will change and influence sea rise in the future.
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July 22, 2019
Millions of years ago, vegetation across much of the world underwent a transformation as grasses with a new way of doing photosynthesis displaced previously dominant plants, shrubs and trees. A new study examines what got these plants started, and why they spread so far and wide.
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July 19, 2019
Recovering ancient seafloor sediments requires complicated machinery and a skilled crew.
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July 18, 2019
The Apollo missions brought back unique samples from the moon that have been analyzed by researchers around the world. This data is getting lost and forgotten. A new database collects it and makes it easy to find and use.
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July 17, 2019
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory director Sean Solomon discusses how Apollo 11 affected the scientific community, how Lamont was involved, and what comes next for lunar exploration.
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July 17, 2019
Hundreds of experts gathered on campus to discuss possibilities for protecting coastal communities and withdrawing when we can no longer safely inhabit our coastlines.
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July 16, 2019
Climate change could worsen China’s already bad ozone pollution problem — but a new study shows that it doesn’t have to be that way.
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July 16, 2019
A scientist explains how she lines up wiggles on a screen to recover the missing layers in cores drilled from the bottom of the ocean.
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July 15, 2019
A new study combs through the many factors that can promote wildfires in California, and concludes that in many, though not all, cases, warming climate is the decisive driver.
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July 11, 2019
It took six days to sail to Point Nemo, the most inaccessible point of the ocean on this planet, to drill a sample from the ocean floor.
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July 11, 2019
Polar explorer Robin Bell testifies before the U.S. House Committee on Science Space and Technology about the threats of melting ice sheets.
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