A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining critical metals used for generating sustainable energy. Read more
Cornell geologists will deploy monitoring equipment at the remote and active Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile, a site that remained dormant for more than 50 years before erupting in 2011. Read more
NASA's Europa Clipper mission blasted off to the moon of Jupiter on Oct. 14. Cornell researchers will help determine if the ocean world could support life. Read more
A new program at Cornell will tackle critical environmental challenges by integrating advanced AI tools with sustainability research across the campus, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program. Read more
Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and of earth and atmospheric sciences in Cornell Engineering, has been named a laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Read more
Researchers studying artificial intelligence training data and treatment of swelling linked to breast cancer are among the eight Cornell assistant professors who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more
Jorge Coppin-Massanet has been awarded the Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Ph.D. Fellowship . His proposal, “The Submersible Under-Ice Mass Spectrometer (SUIMS) for Biogeochemical Mapping of the Ice-Ocean Interface,” was the highest-ranked of all the proposals received by the Link Foundation this year. Coppin-Massanet is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences working with Associate Professor Britney Schmidt. He is the first Cornell student to receive this fellowship since the inception of the award in 1963. Coppin-Massanet... Read more
At a May 24 ceremony in Statler Auditorium, 21 graduating members of the Tri-Service Brigade received commissions as officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Space Force. Read more
(Photo: Mark Wysocki receiving the Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award from the American Meteorological Society in 2017.) Mark Wysocki '89 retired from his position as New York State Climatologist recently, but you wouldn't know it. Most days, if you peek your head into Snee 2142, you will find him there looking at climate models, tracking a storm, answering emails, or just chatting with a student or colleague. Wysocki grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and neither of his parents had more than an eighth-grade education. But they extolled the virtues of a good education to Mark and his two... Read more
Hannah Lang ’18 has never been a rock collector and would definitely not refer to herself as a “rock nerd,” (though some of her good friends are). Yet, she graduated from Cornell EAS with a BA in the science of Earth systems and a concentration in geology. “It wasn't the rocks necessarily that drew me to geology,” Lang said. “It was actually the fact that I've always been intrigued by how we get energy and electricity—how we can take pieces of the Earth and from them, basically build up the technology and society that we have today.” Lang’s underlying interest in those most basic questions has... Read more
