Author: Columbia Climate School47
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Geochemistry Building Will Expand Knowledge of Earth
Amid cheers from hundreds of scientists and guests, Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory cut the ribbon at its $45 million Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building. The ultra-modern facility is “the step forward that we need to accelerate our efforts to understand and predict the important changes that will impact the way we live with our planet,”…
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Water Expert Wins Presidential Award
Water-resources expert Casey Brown has been named one of 56 recipients of the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the U.S. government that recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their career. Brown is a scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate…
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Earth Institute Colleagues Share in the Nobel Peace Prize
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) marks a watershed moment. It signals that people across the world and at all levels of society are recognizing that ongoing climate change is not only a long-term threat to the global environment, but also an…
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Climate Swings Have Brought Great CO2 Pulses Up From the Deep Sea
A study released on May 11, 2007 provides some of the first solid evidence that warming-induced changes in ocean circulation at the end of the last Ice Age caused vast quantities of ancient carbon dioxide to belch from the deep sea into the atmosphere. Scientists believe the carbon dioxide (CO2) releases helped propel the world…
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Researchers From Around the World Converge on New York to Link Climate Change Science with Urban Policymaking Efforts
Urban Climate Change Research Network to be officially launched at May 10-11 Conference
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First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved by Columbia University Scientist and Private Company
Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The “air extraction” prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT’s first…
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Earth Institute Announces 2007-2008 Marie Tharp Fellows
The Earth Institute at Columbia University is pleased to announce the 2007-2008 Marie Tharp Fellows — four women who are making noteworthy contributions to the study of the natural world. The 2007-2008 Marie Tharp Fellows are: Susan Capalbo, Director of the Big Sky Regional Partnership and Professor of Agricultural Economics, Montana State University; Sonya Dyhrman, Assistant Scientist,…
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New Study Shows Climate Change Likely to Lead to Periods of Extreme Drought in Southwest North America
How anthropogenic climate change will impact the arid regions of Southwestern North America has implications for the allocation of water resources and the course of regional development. The findings of a new study, appearing in Science, show that there is a broad consensus amongst climate models that this region will dry significantly in the 21st…
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New Research Analyzes Countries at Greatest Risk from Climate Change Impacts
Study looks at vulnerability of populations in low elevation coastal zones