November 14, 2019
climate response
fundamental science
Sohl, an earth system scientist at Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, studies Earth’s climate past, so that we can better predict its future.
October 24, 2019
data science
fundamental science
Columbia University is a partnering organization on a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant to develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
October 8, 2019
fundamental science
physics
The research team will execute a project aimed at extending the excited state lifetime of atoms, allowing for new technological innovation and advancing the field of quantum science.
October 2, 2019
earth science
fundamental science
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Walter Pitman, a seagoing geophysicist who spent his entire career at Columbia University and spotted a crucial piece of a huge puzzle that revolutionized the earth sciences, has died.
September 16, 2019
astronomy
fundamental science
Chunks of an exomoon’s dusty outer layers of ice, gas, and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding Tabby’s Star, blocking the star’s light and making it appear to gradually fade.