Assistant professors Eshan Chattopadhyay, Debanjan Chowdhury, Andrew Musser, Angeline Pendergrass and Andrej Singer have won 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read more
Cornell scientists have unearthed precise, microscopic clues to where magma is stored in Earth’s mantle, offering scientists – and government officials – a way to gauge volcanic eruption risk. Read more
A new study by a group of universities including Cornell has for the first time revealed the global extent of a layer of melted rock encircling the Earth below its tectonic plates. Read more
Shop the calendar at the Cornell Store or calendars are available by mail for $2 shipping and will include an invoice to be paid by check. To purchase by mail, email nrcc@cornell.edu. Calendars are $10 + shipping. The Ithaca Weather Calendar began in 1985 as a project between the graduate students and senior class of Cornell’s Earth & Atmospheric Science major. The Northeast Regional Climate Center later took over producing the calendar. The first calendar was done in color paper and had lots of stories regarding birds. The themes changed over the years. 2001 and 2002 issues featured weather... Read more
Faculty from seven Cornell colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows through the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, joining a network that is committed to advancing engaged teaching and scholarship at Cornell and in their academic disciplines. Read more
EAS Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial fellow Patrick Fulton served as science advisor and fact-checker for a new graphic novel/comic book titled How to Read a Rock, Vol. 1, written and illustrated for intermediate, middle school, and early high school students. Read more
A pair of EAS graduates received awards at the annual CALS Outstanding Alumni and Faculty Awards Banquet held November 18, 2022. Dr. Gretchen Goldman ’06 will receive the Young Alumni Achievement Award, while John Toohey ’84 is among the recipients of the CALS Outstanding Alumni Award. Read more
Nearly 175 community members joined a town forum Nov. 3, held in person and online, to hear updates on the Cornell University Borehole Observatory. Read more
Three Earth and Atmospheric Science graduate students—Andrea Gomez-Patron, Olivia Paschall and Kayla Russo—are among the 55 Cornell graduate students selected as 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows. Read more
Former students, colleagues and friends gathered Friday, October 7 to celebrate the career and scientific accomplishments of Muawia Barazangi, who passed away March 30, 2022. The Cornell University Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC) hosted the 2022 Kaufman INSTOC Symposium at the Cornell Law School Auditorium, followed by a reception in Snee Hall Atrium. Larry Brown Ph.D. ‘76, the Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and a co-organizer of the symposium, welcomed those in attendance and shared his memories of Professor... Read more
