News: EAS

Ultra-deep drilling reveals mysteries of Japan tsunami

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku earthquake that devastated Japan in 2011. Read more

Scientist Britney Schmidt wins Blavatnik Award

Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and of earth and atmospheric sciences in Cornell Engineering, has been named a laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Read more

Eight early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying artificial intelligence training data and treatment of swelling linked to breast cancer are among the eight Cornell assistant professors who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more

EAS doctoral student wins award to build new type of under-ice submersible instrument

By: Chris Dawson

Jorge Coppin-Massanet has been awarded the Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Ph.D. Fellowship . His proposal, “The Submersible Under-Ice Mass Spectrometer (SUIMS) for Biogeochemical Mapping of the Ice-Ocean Interface,” was the highest-ranked of all the proposals received by the Link Foundation this year. Coppin-Massanet is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences working with Associate Professor Britney Schmidt. He is the first Cornell student to receive this fellowship since the inception of the award in 1963. Coppin-Massanet... Read more