Cornell professor Natalie Mahowald offered straightforward and hopeful testimony on Earth’s warming atmosphere Feb. 13 in a three-hour hearing on climate change before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Read more
The Mars rover Opportunity, NASA’s robotic geologist fitted with an array of tools to search for evidence of water, ended its mission Feb. 13 – three weeks after its 15th anniversary and long past its 90-day warranty. Read more
Natalie Mahowald, Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell, has been quoted in many news stories covering the recently-released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The 728-page report detailed how Earth’s weather, health and ecosystems would be in better shape if the world’s leaders could somehow limit future human-caused warming to just 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (a half degree Celsius) from now, instead of the globally agreed-upon goal of 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C). Mahowald, first author on the report, has made it clear in interviews that the... Read more
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor Sara C. Pryor has been selected to receive the 2018 CALS Research and Extension Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research. Professor Pryor is being recognized this year for her work in monitoring wind turbines using seismometers as revolutionary, innovative, and potentially transformative. Her research shows the potential to have far-reaching influence not only in New York, but nationally and globally as well. The value and relevance of Pryor's research is also reflected in her contributions to international debates on renewable energy and... Read more
Cornell will conduct a survey of the sub-terrain on campus and in the towns of Ithaca and Dryden Sept. 21-25, the next step in its plan to implement Earth Source Heat. Read more
