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Alumni Spotlight: Aiyana Bodi, Intersectional Environmentalist and Innovative Thinker
The MPA-ESP program allowed her to discover climate policy with a focus on legislative affairs.
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Staff Spotlight: David Phelan, Business Manager
As the business manager on the Earth Institute communications team, David keeps the department running smoothly and is always ready to help a colleague in need.
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Globalization Persists Through the Pandemic
We will find ourselves in a post-pandemic world where COVID will be gone but far from forgotten.
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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Kimberley Miner
MPA-ESP alumna Dr. Kimberley Miner has spent her career understanding earth and climate systems to better predict and mitigate the effects of climate change.
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Governing New York City
It would be terrific if the next mayor leveled with us and recruited all New Yorkers to be part of a real effort at community building. Perhaps we might finally respond to this tale of two cities, and lift all of the city’s children out of poverty.
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Staff Spotlight: Jeremy Hinsdale, Senior Web Producer
He helps to translate the amazing breadth of Earth Institute research to the web via interactive data visualizations, photo essays, and more.
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Reburying the Dead in Mississippi
An archaeology dig shows how time erases the arbitrary barriers we construct between races.
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New Remote Summer 2021 Internship at Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
The center is looking for bilingual students to translate documents from English to French and vice versa.
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The Growing Momentum Behind Going Back to the Office
There is a great deal of momentum behind the return to the office, but I know that office will never be the same.

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
