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
A constellation of scientists, technologists and businesses will offer a glimpse into how space will be explored in the years to come during the inaugural Space Tech Industry Day, a virtual symposium hosted on Friday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Read more
Karin Olson Hoal, the Wold Family Professor in Environmental Balance for Human Sustainability, has been growing the Wold program over the past year leading to a number of new developments in the area of mineral resources. Cornell has established a chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), the 101-year old global society dedicated to advancing mineral resource science. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has three fellows in SEG including Suzanne Mahlberg Kay, professor emeritus, Karin Olson Hoal, Wold Family Professor, and Larry Cathles, professor emeritus and winner of the 2020 SEG... Read more
Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner talks about unprecedented winter storms in Texas that were the result of meteorological events called sudden stratospheric warming in a recent article from The Cornell Daily Sun. Read more
Professors Toby Ault and Art DeGaetano are part of a team of Cornell researchers that are developing and planning a hyperlocal weather forecasting system designed to improve winter-storm emergency response and enhance natural disaster coordination. Read more
At a glacier near the South Pole, Grace Barcheck, Patrick Fulton, and collaborators have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fast-slip earthquakes many miles away. Read more
Cornell wind energy scientists, Sara C. Pryor and Rebecca Barthelmie, have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all parts of the world – to help engineers select the turbines in any given region and accelerate the development of sustainable energy. Read more
