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Transition to Seismology Scouting
As we finished scouting and installing the GPS stations, we started to assist the seismology team in getting permission to install there instruments in Tea Estates.
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SIPA Israel Delegation Trip: Cooperation through Sustainability
This student-led initiative takes graduate students to Israel for a rich exchange of ideas. This year’s trip focused on environmentalism, resource management, and climate change.
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The Politics of Technical Complexity
In addition to understanding basic science, we need to think about the use of the technologies that we develop.
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Innovating for Sustainability: Alex Hofmann
A graduate of Columbia’s Environmental Science and Policy program explains how his studies have helped him in his work in the energy sector.
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Free Workshop on Writing Blogs and Op-Eds
Taught by New York Times contributor and Columbia professor Claudia Dreifus, the March 3 workshop is open to Earth Institute students, faculty, and alumni.
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Sustainability Students Volunteer Problem-Solving Abilities
Student-led projects offered sustainability advisory services to three organizations in New York during the Fall 2017 semester.
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New Phi Beta Kappa Inductees Are Passionate About the Environment
On Friday, two students from Columbia’s Undergraduate Sustainable Development Program were inducted into one of the nation’s most prestigious honor societies.
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We Need to Reinvent Regulation, Not Destroy It
We should be thinking about regulation as a way of ensuring our economic activity can proceed with the least possible amount of unanticipated negative impacts. We need to police ourselves and make sure that the rules of correct behavior are clear, fair, well understood and creatively applied.
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Mima Mendoza: Spearheading Change After Typhoon Ketsana
Mendoza’s interest in climate policy piqued after Typhoon Ketsana devastated her hometown in the Philippines. Now she’s a student in Columbia’s Environmental Science and Policy masters program.

AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference, takes place December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s theme—Where Science Connects Us—puts in focus how science depends on connection, from the lab to the field to the ballot box. Once again, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School scientists, experts, students, and educators are playing an active role, sharing our research and helping shape the future of our planet. #AGU25 Learn More
