New research finds that storms of intensities seen today, combined with a few meters increase in sea level, were enough to transport coastal boulders weighing hundreds of tons more than 100,000 years ago.
With its mission complete, the Rosetta-Ice Project, led by Columbia University polar geophysicist Robin Bell, will give scientists an unprecedented look at the Ross Ice Shelf and how it’s changing with the climate.
A warming climate is not just melting the Arctic’s sea ice; it is increasing the odds that ice-rafted pollution will foul a neighboring country’s waters, says a new study by Stephanie Pfirman and Robert Newton, researchers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Columbia’s Center for Climate and Life has awarded nearly $1 million to four scientists from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Their research projects will improve understanding of how climate change impacts the essentials of human sustainability.
The 2017 Vetlesen Prize for achievement in earth sciences will go to S. George Philander of Princeton University and Mark A. Cane of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.