News: EAS

PRI has launched a major new free online learning platform designed to help anyone in the United States – from K-12 and college-level students and educators to the general public – learn about the Earth where they live. The site is headed by PRI's Director of Science Communications and Cornell EAS Adjunct Associate Professor, Jon Hendricks (PhD '05). Earth@Home™ is rich with interactive content about Earth and its life, with a focus on geology, paleontology, climate, and the connections among Earth’s systems. The major components of the new online platform include regionally-based guides to... Read more

Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability funded a joint project between EAS and the Department of Communications - Gregory Dietl, Jaleigh Pier and Jonathan Schuldt will conduct a national survey to determine if a prolonged and severe pandemic can change public support for conversation. Read more

When fall semester instruction begins online and in person Sept. 2, the 3,296 members of Cornell’s Class of 2024 just might be the most nimble group in the university’s history. Read more

The Earth Source Heat project, of which Teresa Jordan and Patrick Fulton are major collaborators, secured a U.S. Department of Energy grant, expected to total about $7.2 million to help verify the feasibility of using a novel geothermal energy system to heat Cornell's campus. “The international geothermal research community and the national geosciences community were eager collaborators in imagining novel experiments, and they generously lent their expertise to transform those ideas into a practical drilling and science plan,” said Teresa Jordan, the J. Preston Levis Professor of Engineering... Read more

Art DeGaetano, Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is one of nine scientists who have co-authored a report to help the nation’s farmers, producers and commercial agricultural managers reduce risk in the face of climate change. Read more

Megan Barrington, an EAS grad student, has been working on a pair of zoomable cameras that will sprout from the NASA Mars 2020 Rover, set to launch on July 30th! The instrument, called Mastcam-Z, is specially designed to see Mars both in visible light wavelengths and in near-infrared wavelengths. The cameras will be used to create 3D models of the surface at multiple wavelengths to reveal the terrain’s composition and geology and help the engineering team guide the rover throughout its exploration area. Read more

A Cornell University interdisciplinary team, including Natalie Mahowald, received a grant from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration to better understand how plant pathogens that travel the globe with dust particles might put crops at risk, especially in places where people struggle to eat. “It’s just a fascinating combination of cross-disciplinary work that’s going to allow us to address things that no one has been able to address before,” said co-investigator Natalie Mahowald, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Engineering in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences... Read more

Louis Derry, Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). GSA’s mission is to advance geoscience research and discovery while supporting the global community of geologists. The GSA Fellowship recognizes exceptional members of the geoscience community. Derry joined Cornell Earth and Atmospheric Sciences as a research fellow in 1994 and as a faculty member in 1996. Derry’s research includes studying the biogeochemical processes at multiple time scales, from modern environments to evolution of couple biogeochemical cycles over Earth... Read more

Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability awarded a seed grant to an interdisciplinary project that reduces levels of air pollution in India from agricultural burning. The project is led by Natalie Mahowald and Peter Hess from the Cornell University College of Engineering, Andrew McDonald from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, and Prabhu Pingali from The Dyson School. Read more

Professor Natalie Mahowald was quoted in an article on the state of the new Democratic climate plan that aims to end greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Read more