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