October 2, 2019
Walter Pitman: Discovered a Key to Plate Tectonics
Walter Pitman, a seagoing geophysicist who spent his entire career at Columbia University and spotted a crucial piece of a huge puzzle that revolutionized the earth sciences, has died.
September 27, 2019
Columbia Scientists Demonstrate Power of High-Speed Microscope to Illuminate Biology at the Speed of Life
The team behind the revolutionary 3D SCAPE microscope announced a new version of the high-speed imaging technology; it promises to impact fields as wide-ranging as genetics, cardiology, and neuroscience.
September 25, 2019
Center for Climate and Life Fellow Explains IPCC Sea Level Warning
Pierre Dutrieux, an oceanographer at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and 2019 Center for Climate and Life Fellow, discusses his Antarctic research and what the new IPCC report says about sea level rise.
September 20, 2019
Economists Are Downplaying Many Major Climate Risks, Says Report
Policymakers have been receiving economic assessments of future climate change impacts which omit the biggest risks, says a new report coauthored by experts from Columbia's Earth Institute.
September 18, 2019
Anthony Fitzpatrick Receives $2.84M to Decipher Origins of Brain Disorders
The funding will support research that lays the groundwork for detecting and treating the underlying causes of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lewy body dementia.
September 16, 2019
Tabby’s Star: Exomoon’s Slow Annihilation Could Explain the Dimming of the Most Mysterious Star in the Universe
Chunks of an exomoon’s dusty outer layers of ice, gas, and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding Tabby’s Star, blocking the star’s light and making it appear to gradually fade.
September 16, 2019
Two Months in the Southern Ocean, for Science
In 2019, two International Ocean Discovery Program expeditions to learn more about Earth’s climate history sailed under the leadership of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists.
