“The rainfall from Ida resulted from the merger of the remnants of Hurricane Ida (a tropical depression when it reached the Northeast) and a stationary front that was draped across New Jersey,” said Arthur T. DeGaetano, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences (CALS) and director of the NRCC. Read more
Jacob Feuerstein '23 predicted the path of the category-4 Hurricane Ida four days before the storm made landfall. Read more
Britney Schmidt is exploring Antarctica's upside-down world, studying the ocean beneath the ice shelves. Read more
Politicians are more likely to tweet about climate change if they are Democrats, represent wealthier districts and if their constituents are concerned about the climate, according to a new Cornell study, co-authored by Allison Chatrchyan. Read more
Eighteen thousand years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of what is now New York State. Two glacial advances, or periods of growth in a glacier, formed Long Island. Today, residents of Ithaca, New York, a city in the Finger Lakes region known for its gorges and for being home to Cornell University, remember the impact that glaciers had on their landscape and, in turn, their history. Read more
Ngoc Truong, Ph.D. candidate in EAS, is an author of a study about the gas phosphine found in trace amounts in Venus’ upper atmosphere and how it may be evidence of explosive volcanoes. Read more
After the stifling hot temperatures parked over the Pacific Northwest in late June, an international group of 27 climate scientists, including Flavio Lehner, concluded that the heatwave was “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.” Read more
David Hysell, Ph.D. ’92, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is using NSF funding to develop radar tools and techniques for monitoring space weather, including the creation of a new radar system at Cornell. Read more
IDEEAS won the Social Justice Award from OISE and the Graduate ad Professional Student Diversity Council which was featured in a recent Cornell Chronicle article. Read more
