Professors Toby Ault and Art DeGaetano are part of a team of Cornell researchers that are developing and planning a hyperlocal weather forecasting system designed to improve winter-storm emergency response and enhance natural disaster coordination. Read more
At a glacier near the South Pole, Grace Barcheck, Patrick Fulton, and collaborators have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fast-slip earthquakes many miles away. Read more
Cornell wind energy scientists, Sara C. Pryor and Rebecca Barthelmie, have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all parts of the world – to help engineers select the turbines in any given region and accelerate the development of sustainable energy. Read more
Earlier this week, Cornell hosted a community forum - giving community members an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the Earth Source Heat project and the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUOB). Read more
Assistant Professor Peter Hitchcock and Senior Lecturer Mark Wysocki, received an Innovation grant from the Cornell University Center for Teaching Innovation to incorporate the Jupyter Notebook app into their Atmospheric Dynamics course which allows students to use real forecast data. Read more
Drawing on Cornell’s expertise in climate change science and education, the Cornell Climate Smart Solutions Program, led by Allison Chatrchyan, is delivering a comprehensive training program for the New York Power Authority with nearly 2,400 employees in New York. Read more
Professor Natalie Mahowald, among other Cornell sustainability leaders, spoke at the 2020 NYS Sustainability Conference that focused on connections between human health, social justice, feeding the world's growing population, and keeping the atmosphere cool. Read more
Cornell’s Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) has been selected to be an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Bridge Partner. EAS is one of 18 out of 68 programs that were accepted into the AGU Bridge Program in 2020. The Bridge program partners with academic institutions across the United States to recruit and retain underrepresented students who are applying to geoscience graduate schools. Bridge Program students only need to fill out one common application form to apply to any of the Bridge program institutions. Applicants must be Hispanic, African American, American Indian, Pacific Islander... Read more
Professor Natalie Mahowald is one of 5 Cornell University faculty elected as an AAAS Fellow, the world's largest general scientific society! Read more
"Our best knowledge continues to suggest that we have a clear & still large say in how our future looks," says Flavio Lehner, assistant professor in EAS, in response to claims that Earth "is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming." Read more
