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- Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where: Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: A MPG/SGT seminar presentation by Dr. Anna Ledeczi from MPG. Title: Megathrust revealed: Structure and properties of a Cascadia plate boundary fault zone in the Olympic Subduction Complex Abstract: Exhumed accretionary complexes provide a window into the architecture of the subduction […]
- Tuesday, September 29, 2026 5:30 PM – Tue , November 10, 2026 7:40 PM Where: Online Description: Registration closed. This workshop is not running in Fall 2026. Join our mailing list or email us at execed@climate.columbia.edu to hear about future workshops and other open enrollment opportunities from the Columbia Climate School. Workshop Fees: $2,000 for the 15-hour workshop Description: Contact: […]
- Tuesday, September 29, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where: Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 Description: Arabic medical treatises of the tenth century explained both endemic and epidemic diseases in environmental terms. Physicians such as Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Majūsī, Muḥammad al-Tamīmī, and al-Masīḥī described various kinds of corruption of air and water, the risks these posed […]
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- Researchers from Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and other institutions examined what could happen if New York continued its existing planting patterns. … But when it meets nitrogen oxides released by vehicles, buildings and […]
- “We expected winter heating to dominate methane emissions, but the summertime signal showed us that we need to be tracking these emissions year-round,” said co-author Róisín Commane, Associate Professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and […]
- When Zoey Yiyuan Zhou first heard the news that the Trump administration was shuttering the embassy air quality monitoring, it struck her as a research opportunity. “It’s such a rare case to study this drawback,” […]
And we are in 2026. And how many if any of these grand proposals are in progress?