Spotlights

Angeline Pendergrass has joined the Cornell Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences as an assistant professor. Pendergrass, who joined the department in September 2020, was drawn to Cornell by... Read more

By Erin Philipson The Braudy Foundation – founded by Bob Braudy ’65, M.Eng. ’66, and his wife, Judi – has committed to funding a second five-year phase of a collaboration between Cornell’s Department... Read more

Flavio Lehner has joined the Cornell Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences as assistant professor. Lehner, who joined the department in September of 2020, is excited to join a department of... Read more

“I did not grow up camping or spending a lot of time in the woods,” says Megan Holycross. “I wasn’t indoctrinated into a love of the outdoors and camping the way a lot of geologists are.” As she says... Read more

By Carolyn Headlam Forged in the Fall of 2019, IDEEAS (pronounced “ideas”) is an independent working group dedicated to Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and to... Read more

Jonathan Brewer Ph.D. ‘81 recently gifted a set of microscopes, equipped with cameras, to the Cornell Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Read more

As a young child, Carolina Bieri '16 was afraid of thunderstorms, as many children are. Her mother encouraged her to learn more about the weather, hoping it would quell her fears. Bieri began reading... Read more

Photo credit: Mike Hojnowski Cornell Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) will create their first student project team, CU GeoData, in the Fall of 2020. The team will be dedicated to assessing... Read more

Not many children know what they are going to be when they grow up, but Jonathan Hendricks ’05 knew as a kindergartener that he would become a paleontologist. Hendricks’s mother would take him to the... Read more

After teaching Oceanography for ten years, Bruce Monger, Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has influenced tens of thousands of students. Each year his course, EAS 1540: Introductory... Read more