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- However, geophysicist Lauren Lewright, a Ph.D. student at Columbia University, along with her adviser Jacqueline Austermann and other colleagues, found that this rebounding process—known as glacial isostatic adjustment—is unfolding much faster than expected in Greenland….
- Dr Irwin Redlener, founding director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, has previously identified New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC as facing elevated risks due to their combined […]
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