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2022 World Food Prize Awarded to Columbia Climate Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig
The award recognizes her pioneering work in modeling the impact of climate change on food production worldwide.
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Climate School Dean Receives Environmental Champion Award
Maureen Raymo, co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School and director at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, received an Environmental Champion Award from NY State Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick.
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Professor Nicholas Christie-Blick Named 2021 AAAS Fellow
The professor of earth and environmental sciences is one of five Columbia faculty recently recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
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Environmental Science and Policy Students Win Third Place in Sustainable Fashion Competition
The team invented a hypothetical denim brand that centers sustainability and reusability.
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A Climate Scientist Rides the (Rossby) Wave of Discovery
Mingfang Ting studies the connection between planetary waves in the atmosphere and climate anomalies, such as droughts and extreme heat.
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Jacqueline Austermann: Exploring the Deep Earth, Modeling Future Sea Level
She studies Earth’s past warm periods to try to understand the future, and was just named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow.
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Mapping the Most Mysterious Planet of All: Earth
For her work toward charting the global ocean floor, scientist Vicki Ferrini has been named by the Explorer Club as one of 50 people changing the world.
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Ryan Abernathey: Helping to Open a Universe of Data to the World
The Lamont-Doherty physical oceanographer was recently awarded early career honors from the Oceanography Society.

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

