Eighteen thousand years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of what is now New York State. Two glacial advances, or periods of growth in a glacier, formed Long Island. Today, residents of Ithaca, New York, a city in the Finger Lakes region known for its gorges and for being home to Cornell University, remember the impact that glaciers had on their landscape and, in turn, their history. Read more
Ngoc Truong, Ph.D. candidate in EAS, is an author of a study about the gas phosphine found in trace amounts in Venus’ upper atmosphere and how it may be evidence of explosive volcanoes. Read more
After the stifling hot temperatures parked over the Pacific Northwest in late June, an international group of 27 climate scientists, including Flavio Lehner, concluded that the heatwave was “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.” Read more
David Hysell, Ph.D. ’92, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is using NSF funding to develop radar tools and techniques for monitoring space weather, including the creation of a new radar system at Cornell. Read more
IDEEAS won the Social Justice Award from OISE and the Graduate ad Professional Student Diversity Council which was featured in a recent Cornell Chronicle article. Read more
Ault received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence for scholarship and creative activities! The honor recognizes faculty and staff at SUNY colleges who demonstrate a commitment to intellectual vibrancy, advancing the boundaries of knowledge, providing the highest quality of instruction and serving the public good. Read more
Sillin recently sparked a conversation on Twitter among the meteorology community after he overlayed demographic data with radar coverage in the South. He noticed that the majority of the areas with large radar gaps were also areas with majority Black populations. Silin shared his insight in a tweet that garnered more than 155 retweets, 74 quote tweets, and 492 likes. Read more
Professor Mattew Pritchard was part of the faculty committee to plan a first-of-its-kind virtual gathering on March 4 to welcome recently admitted engineering doctoral students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the field, including African American, Latino, and indigenous populations. Many prospective EAS students were able to attend the event. Read more
As many are all too aware, changing climate conditions impact our lives in many ways. The Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) has been making regional climate services and weather data available and accessible to the public for over 40 years. The NRCC was the first regional climate center in the country and was used as a test to see if these types of centers were viable. “I think we proved our usefulness,” says Keith Eggleston ’82, a regional climatologist in the NRCC and graduate of the atmospheric sciences program at Cornell University. “So now quite a bit later, we're firmly... Read more
Natalie Mahowald, Cornell’s Irving Porter Church Professor in Engineering, and lead author Janice Brahney, Utah State University assistant professor of natural resources, have found that plastics cycle through the oceans and roadways and, if tiny enough, can become microplastic aerosols, which ride the jet stream across continents. In addition to the Cornell Chronicle, the story was also published in Wired, The Guardian, CNN, and the Independent. Read more
