Earlier this week, Cornell hosted a community forum - giving community members an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the Earth Source Heat project and the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUOB). Read more
Assistant Professor Peter Hitchcock and Senior Lecturer Mark Wysocki, received an Innovation grant from the Cornell University Center for Teaching Innovation to incorporate the Jupyter Notebook app into their Atmospheric Dynamics course which allows students to use real forecast data. Read more
Professor Natalie Mahowald, among other Cornell sustainability leaders, spoke at the 2020 NYS Sustainability Conference that focused on connections between human health, social justice, feeding the world's growing population, and keeping the atmosphere cool. Read more
Cornell’s Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) has been selected to be an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Bridge Partner. EAS is one of 18 out of 68 programs that were accepted into the AGU Bridge Program in 2020. The Bridge program partners with academic institutions across the United States to recruit and retain underrepresented students who are applying to geoscience graduate schools. Bridge Program students only need to fill out one common application form to apply to any of the Bridge program institutions. Applicants must be Hispanic, African American, American Indian, Pacific Islander... Read more
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
