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Three Earth Institute Projects Make Top 100 Proposals for MacArthur $100 Million Grant

Three Earth Institute Projects Make Top 100 Proposals for MacArthur $100 Million Grant

February 19, 2020
climate response   Earth Institute  

The projects include one on ending toxic arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh; one focused on efficiently using water resources for farm and food management; and a third on removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Mary Annaïse Heglar to Join Earth Institute as Writer-in-Residence

Mary Annaïse Heglar to Join Earth Institute as Writer-in-Residence

January 27, 2020
climate change   Earth Institute  

Noted climate justice essayist Mary Annaïse Heglar will spend the next six months at Columbia University under a newly launched writer-in-residence program.

Earth Institute Director Alex Halliday Honored with Knighthood

Earth Institute Director Alex Halliday Honored with Knighthood

May 10, 2019
climate change   climate response   Earth Institute  

Years before Alex Halliday joined Columbia University’s Earth Institute as its director, he was changing the field of geochemistry. Halliday was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2019 for his pioneering research.

Earth Institute Director Alex Halliday Honored with Knighthood

Earth Institute Director Alex Halliday Honored with Knighthood

February 5, 2019
awards   climate response   Earth Institute  

The world-renowned geoscientist is recognized for revolutionizing the world of isotopes. The investiture ceremony will take place at Buckingham Palace on May 9, 2019.

Columbia Researchers Help With Plan to Restore and Protect the Hudson River

Columbia Researchers Help With Plan to Restore and Protect the Hudson River

September 18, 2018
Earth Institute   ecology   Hudson River  

The plan reviews the current state of the Hudson River estuary and outlines ways to clean it up and reduce the impacts from development and climate change.

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