May 22, 2020

Xiaomeng Jin Uses Satellite Imagery to Track Ozone Formation

Jin's research as a Ph.D. student at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has yielded important information for air quality control efforts.
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May 22, 2020

The 12 Questions Earth Scientists Should Ask in the Next 10 Years

A committee comprised of scientists from 19 research institutions has outlined what the U.S. National Science Foundation should focus on over the next decade.
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May 18, 2020

Columbia’s Rafael Yuste Wins Vannevar Bush Fellowship

The five-year, $3 million fellowship is the U.S. Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award and supports basic research with the potential for transformative impact.
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May 18, 2020

New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet

David Kipping, an assistant professor in Columbia’s Department of Astronomy, uses Bayesian statistics to shed light on how extraterrestrial life might evolve in alien worlds.
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May 14, 2020

A New Primer on Climate Change Science

Authored by Earth Institute professor John Mutter, Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development, covers the basic physics of planetary climate, and how it is shifting.
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May 11, 2020

Jeannette Wing Receives NSF Grant to Create COVID-19 Information Commons

Jeannette Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia, will use the funding to create a website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across COVID research efforts.
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May 8, 2020

Potentially Fatal Combinations of Humidity and Heat Are Emerging Across the Globe

A new study has identified thousands of incidents of previously rare or unprecedented extreme heat/humidity combinations in many parts of the world.
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