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- Now a team of researchers that includes Columbia seismologist Won-Young Kim may have discovered why.
- Speaking later to lead researcher Kristina Douglass, an associate professor at Columbia Climate School, the village elders described their memories in detail. … Columbia University took notice of Douglass’s research and in 2022 appointed them […]
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