July 29, 2020

8 Surprising Facts About Marie Tharp, Mapmaker Extraordinaire

Maybe you already know that she created some of the first maps of the ocean floor and helped discover plate tectonics. Here are some lesser-known facts about this history-making cartographer.
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July 28, 2020

Columbia Chemistry Receives $21.5 Million Gift from Dr. Ge Li and Dr. Ning Zhao

Today, Columbia announced the $21.5 million gift, which will advance research and teaching in chemistry at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia College, and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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July 22, 2020

Columbia Astrophysicist Brian Metzger Named 2020 Blavatnik Laureate

Research on the origins of gold and other heavy metals garners the nation's largest unrestricted scientific prize for young scientists.
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July 22, 2020

Lamont-Doherty Program Aims to Bring More Diversity to Earth Science

The Secondary School Field Research Program offers a diverse group of young people a unique opportunity to do field and laboratory research.
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July 16, 2020

Genetics Could Protect Coral Reefs from Global Warming

The Columbia study provides more evidence that genetic-sequencing can reveal evolutionary differences in reef-building corals that one day could help identify which strains could adapt to warmer seas.
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July 16, 2020

Groundbreaking Project Will Drill Into Bedrock Below Greenland Ice to Understand Past and Future Melting

GreenDrill promises to reveal the ice sheet’s past in unprecedented detail and enable more accurate predictions of how it may add to rising seas in the 21st century.
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Tropical Storm Fay shortly after it formed on July 9, 2020. (Photo: NASA)
July 13, 2020

Understanding and Predicting Hurricanes in a Warmer World

Scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory use models and observations to understand tropical storms and advance the science of predicting them.
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