Cornell students to work at UN’s COP27 conference in Egypt
At the upcoming Conference of the Parties – best known as COP27 – 11 Cornell students will help delegations from small countries gain a stronger environmental voice. Read more
At the upcoming Conference of the Parties – best known as COP27 – 11 Cornell students will help delegations from small countries gain a stronger environmental voice. Read more
Wanted: a carbon-free energy source with which to heat buildings in populated regions with cold winters. That is the challenge being tackled by Cornell University as it assesses Earth Source Heat, a vision to heat campus using geothermal energy. A busy year of progress was powered by expertise and efforts within the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences. Read more
Paleoceanographic records tell us that the climate has experienced a long-term cooling trend and declines in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past several tens of millions of years, interrupted by some shorter intervals of ups and downs, according to research by Louis Derry, a professor in Cornell’s Department of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. Read more
Meeting a goal as ambitious as Cornell’s aspiration to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 requires broad collaboration. For example, this summer’s drilling of the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO), which opened up new opportunities for exploring geothermal energy, succeeded due to involvement from Cornell faculty, students, staff, and alumni like Tomás Zapata, Ph.D. ’95, who works for the multi-energy company Repsol. Read more
The Cornell University Borehole Observatory provides a platform to directly study the temperature, permeability and other characteristics of the rock deep beneath the Ithaca campus – factors that will help the university determine whether to move forward with a proposed plan to warm the Ithaca campus with Earth Source Heat. Read more
For Cornell scientists, new images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft flyby Sept. 29 of Jupiter’s moon Europa – an icy, oceanic world that may host life – brings future mission into frigid focus. Read more
Growing algae onshore could close a projected gap in society’s future nutritional demands while also improving environmental sustainability. Read more
As surveying the cosmos for the new James Webb Space Telescope gets hot, Cornell researchers have modeled and synthesized lava in order to discover far-away, volcanic exoplanets. Read more
Cornell has led research operations at the observatory since the 1960s, when NASA began sending people to space and scientists wanted to learn more about the physics of space weather. Read more
Cornell University will lead a four-year, $2 million project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to implement a multi-container software framework for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Read more