State of the Planet

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  • Deploying in the Mangrove Forest

    Deploying in the Mangrove Forest

    We continued our electromagnetic expedition to image fresh and saline groundwater into the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, the world’s largest. While guards protected us from tigers, it was a wild boar that dug up some of our equipment.

  • Ground-truthing With Yohana Tesfamariam Tekeste

    Ground-truthing With Yohana Tesfamariam Tekeste

    Tesfamariam Tekeste helps farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change. She tells us about her work, as well as some hard truths about why those vulnerabilities exist in the first place.

  • Faye McNeill Combats Air Pollution, From the Molecular to the Global Scale

    Faye McNeill Combats Air Pollution, From the Molecular to the Global Scale

    The first woman to earn tenure in Columbia’s chemical engineering department, McNeill is working for cleaner air in developing countries.

  • Learning From Tree Rings: An Interview With Nicole Davi

    Learning From Tree Rings: An Interview With Nicole Davi

    A dendrochronologist explains how tree rings can teach us about our past, present, and future.

  • Into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest and Back

    Into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest and Back

    For the last week of our trip, we traveled by boat to reach the sites where we are measuring subsidence in the Sundarban Mangrove Forest and nearby embanked islands.

  • From Barisal to Khulna

    From Barisal to Khulna

    We continued to service our GNSS and RSET-MH equipment measuring land subsidence in coastal Bangladesh. Long distances, poor roads and slow ferries made for very long days, but we were able to complete the work at the sites.

  • Dhaka and Beyond

    Dhaka and Beyond

    After a week of meetings and a wedding in Dhaka, we headed back to the field to service equipment measuring land subsidence in Bangladesh.

  • Back to Bangladesh at Last

    Back to Bangladesh at Last

    I am finally back in Bangladesh after a pandemic hiatus. I need to repair precision GPSs that failed over the last few years. They are measuring tectonic movements for earthquake hazard and land subsidence, which exacerbates sea level rise.

  • Internships with Interdisciplinary Networks

    Internships with Interdisciplinary Networks

    Internships are available to support the coordination and activities of interdisciplinary Earth Networks. Columbia and Barnard students – apply by August 6.

  • Deploying in the Mangrove Forest

    Deploying in the Mangrove Forest

    We continued our electromagnetic expedition to image fresh and saline groundwater into the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, the world’s largest. While guards protected us from tigers, it was a wild boar that dug up some of our equipment.

  • Ground-truthing With Yohana Tesfamariam Tekeste

    Ground-truthing With Yohana Tesfamariam Tekeste

    Tesfamariam Tekeste helps farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change. She tells us about her work, as well as some hard truths about why those vulnerabilities exist in the first place.

  • Faye McNeill Combats Air Pollution, From the Molecular to the Global Scale

    Faye McNeill Combats Air Pollution, From the Molecular to the Global Scale

    The first woman to earn tenure in Columbia’s chemical engineering department, McNeill is working for cleaner air in developing countries.

  • Learning From Tree Rings: An Interview With Nicole Davi

    Learning From Tree Rings: An Interview With Nicole Davi

    A dendrochronologist explains how tree rings can teach us about our past, present, and future.

  • Into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest and Back

    Into the Sundarban Mangrove Forest and Back

    For the last week of our trip, we traveled by boat to reach the sites where we are measuring subsidence in the Sundarban Mangrove Forest and nearby embanked islands.

  • From Barisal to Khulna

    From Barisal to Khulna

    We continued to service our GNSS and RSET-MH equipment measuring land subsidence in coastal Bangladesh. Long distances, poor roads and slow ferries made for very long days, but we were able to complete the work at the sites.

  • Dhaka and Beyond

    Dhaka and Beyond

    After a week of meetings and a wedding in Dhaka, we headed back to the field to service equipment measuring land subsidence in Bangladesh.

  • Back to Bangladesh at Last

    Back to Bangladesh at Last

    I am finally back in Bangladesh after a pandemic hiatus. I need to repair precision GPSs that failed over the last few years. They are measuring tectonic movements for earthquake hazard and land subsidence, which exacerbates sea level rise.

  • Internships with Interdisciplinary Networks

    Internships with Interdisciplinary Networks

    Internships are available to support the coordination and activities of interdisciplinary Earth Networks. Columbia and Barnard students – apply by August 6.