Three Earth and Atmospheric Science graduate students—Andrea Gomez-Patron, Olivia Paschall and Kayla Russo—are among the 55 Cornell graduate students selected as 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows. Read more
Former students, colleagues and friends gathered Friday, October 7 to celebrate the career and scientific accomplishments of Muawia Barazangi, who passed away March 30, 2022. The Cornell University Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC) hosted the 2022 Kaufman INSTOC Symposium at the Cornell Law School Auditorium, followed by a reception in Snee Hall Atrium. Larry Brown Ph.D. ‘76, the Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and a co-organizer of the symposium, welcomed those in attendance and shared his memories of Professor... 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
