News: EAS

Motion of the Ocean Prof. Bruce Monger thinks that he has “the best job in the world.” Monger teaches BIOEE 1540: Introductory Oceanography, one of the largest classes at Cornell with over 1,000 students and 40 teaching assistants. The class “started small.” said Monger, but then enrollment began to climb. “One hundred and thirty, then it was 230 then 330,” Monger said. “I went from a couple-hundred-seat room in Olin Hall to Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall then that one filled up. Now I moved it to Bailey Hall and [I teach] a little over a thousand students.” “Even though it’s a giant room you... Read more

We are seeking Ph.D. students to work on the following projects to begin in the Fall of 2020 in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. Please contact the faculty listed below for more information. Please click here for the most up-to-date list of opportunities. Atmospheric Sciences: Prof. Peter Hitchcock ( aph28@cornell.edu) is seeking a student to work on large-scale atmospheric dynamics related to stratosphere-troposphere interactions in the tropics. Experimental petrology/geochemistry: Potential areas of research include investigations of planetary redox... Read more

From the Cornell Chronicle: In New York City, the students – participating in Cornell’s Global Climate Change Science and Policy class – met with Tonga’s Mahe Tupouniua, secretary of foreign affairs; T. Suka Mangisi, deputy chief of mission; Rose Kautoke, assistant crown council; and Siosiua Utoi’kamanu, Tonga’s representative for the U.N.’s Law of the Sea convention. The Global Climate Change Science and Policy class is taught by Natalie Mahowald, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Engineering; Allison Chatrchyan, senior research associate and director of the Cornell Institute for Climate... Read more

Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, make up the 2019-20 cohort of the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program. Read more

Danielle Eiseman was one of four recipients of this year's Postdoc Achievement Awards, co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, as part of Cornell’s celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. She was awarded the Excellence in Community Engagement Award and a $500 prize. Photo by Chris Kitchen. Read more

According to the Atkinson Center website, "the Academic Venture Fund (AVF) is an incubator for the next generation of sustainable solutions. The AVF seeds original, interdisciplinary research that is not likely to find funding elsewhere because the projects are novel, risky, need early data to establish traction, or involve new teams working together. AVF projects often draw in external partners in industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations. The AVF provides roughly $1.5 million in funding annually, typically supporting 10-15 projects a year across a range of energy, environment... Read more

Patricia MacQueen (Geological Sciences) was one of only 14% of applicants selected to receive a 3-year NASA fellowship worth $135,000 in the inaugural Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) competition that will partially fund her graduate student stipend, tuition, and research expenses. Please join us in congratulating Patricia! Read more

Buoyed by an atmospheric “superhighway,” smoke from lightning-sparked African savanna and forest fires deposit unexpectedly large amounts of nutrient-rich phosphorus in a river basin an ocean away. Read more

The American Society of Horticulture Science's Board of Directors and the Awards Committee has named Cornell Professor Art DeGaetano's paper "Regional Influences of Mean Temperature and Variance Changes on Freeze Risk in Apples" the ASHS Outstanding Extension Publication Award winner for papers published in 2018. There will be an awardees ceremony and reception for all awardees in conjunction with the ASHS Annual Conference on July 22, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read more

The TooWINDY mission of Principal Investigator David Hysell, was launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, on June 19, 2019. TooWINDY payloads investigated the stability of the post sunset equatorial F region ionosphere and the factors that predispose it to equatorial spread F (ESF), a spectacular phenomenon characterized by broadband plasma turbulence which degrades radio and radar signals at low magnetic latitudes. The goal of the investigation was to lay the foundation for a strategy to forecast this disruptive phenomenon. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Long... Read more