News: EAS

Professor Natalie Mahowald is one of 5 Cornell University faculty elected as an AAAS Fellow, the world's largest general scientific society! Read more

"Our best knowledge continues to suggest that we have a clear & still large say in how our future looks," says Flavio Lehner, assistant professor in EAS, in response to claims that Earth "is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming." Read more

Warren Knapp, professor emeritus in EAS, died on Oct 3rd. Knapp brought engineering skill to the study of weather and climate, finding sophisticated and precise ways to measure and record day-to-day and annual fluctuations in temperature, radiation, precipitation and pollution. Read more

Collaborators from across Cornell University, including Professors Esteban Gazel and Megan Holycross, were awarded $1M to mine rare-earth minerals used in consumer electronics and advanced renewable energy using programmed microbes. Read more

A research team from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has received a $1.4 million grant from NASA to lead a study of how volcanic ash from past eruptions affected the Earth, and the potential impact of future eruptions. The project involves collaborators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, among other institutions. Read more

The cross-college partnership between Sara C. Pryor from Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Rebecca Barthelmie from the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering directly supports research in sustainability. The project is designed to unlock the power of wind energy off the Eastern Seaboard. Read more

Veronica Morales is currently an assistant professor at the University of California Davis in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Morales received her MSc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell in 2007, and her Ph.D. in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell in 2011. Read more

Both graduate fields in Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences have announced that they will be dropping the requirement for the general GRE test. This impacts the fields of Atmospheric Sciences and Geological Sciences. The change in admission process will be effective for the fall 2021 application cycle for all graduate and professional degree programs in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. During 2020, faculty began a new holistic review of applicants to the MS and Ph.D. programs. “In the first round of review, we hid the GRE scores but evaluated the candidates using all of the... Read more

Every year at least 50 volcanic eruptions affect over 10% of the world’s population. Some eruptions like Pinatubo (1991) and Laki (1783) were so powerful that they globally impacted the climate of our planet. The interdisciplinary research team of Natalie Mahowald, Esteban Gazel, and Matthew Pritchard from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences received a $1.4M grant from NASA to study the global effect of volcanic ash on the Earth system. The project involves collaborators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), among... Read more

Sara C. Pryor, Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Rebecca Barthelmie, Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have started work on a new research project designed to unlock the power of the wind along the US eastern seaboard. The project is jointly funded by the U.S Department of Energy and NYSERDA. It will provide information to wind farm developers and help ensure that this massive energy resource is harnessed at the lowest possible cost of energy. The project is entitled ‘Reducing LCoE from offshore wind by multiscale wake modeling’ and will run... Read more