June 18, 2018
Center for Climate and Life Names Yutian Wu Recipient of 2018 Fellowship
Yutian Wu, an atmospheric scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeking to understand how the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice will impact North American weather extremes, is the Center’s newest Fellow.
June 13, 2018
Shrinking Ice Sheet Made A Surprising Comeback
Thousands of years ago, the West Antarctic ice sheet shrank dramatically—then grew back in an unexpected way. The new findings could help to refine predictions about how today’s warming climate will impact polar ice and sea level rise.
June 13, 2018
How Will People Move as Climate Changes?
A new model developed by Kyle Davis, a Columbia postdoctoral researcher, estimates how many climate migrants there will be, where they are likely to go, and what effects they might have on the places to which they move.
June 7, 2018
Ethiopia Establishes National Framework for Climate Services
In Ethiopia, climate variability can have a big impact on food, water, and health. Columbia experts are assisting with the development of a system to monitor and predict climate that will help keep people safe.
June 6, 2018
Quantum Interference May Be Key To Smaller Insulators
Researchers from Columbia University, Shanghai Normal University, and the University of Copenhagen have synthesized the first molecule capable of insulating at the nanometer scale more effectively than a vacuum barrier.
June 6, 2018
Suzanne Bakken Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Bakken, a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and member of the Data Science Institute, was chosen for the post by the AMIA Board of Directors.
June 4, 2018
Days on Earth Are Getting Longer. You Can Thank the Moon, Not the Seasons.
A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet’s relationship to the moon and other planetary bodies shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted about 18.7 hours.