A new graphic novel/comic book titled: How to Read a Rock, Vol. 1. was recently published online and is now available for FREE: https://joidesresolution.org/activities/how-to-read-a-rock-vol-1/
Written and illustrated for intermediate, middle school, and early high school students by the highly acclaimed and award-winning children’s book team of writer Kevin Kurtz and illustrator Nicole Kurtz (they are not related), this book is a funny, slightly irreverent, but scientifically accurate guide to how scientists learn about the Earth by studying rocks! Our own Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial fellow Patrick Fulton served as science advisor and fact-checker. This issue focuses on actual cores of rock and sediment drilled by the R/V JOIDES Resolution that tell the story of one of the most catastrophic events of the last 20,000 years.
The collaborations on this and subsequent volumes support the scientific research organization the International Ocean Discovery Program’s (IODP) education and outreach efforts, which are funded by the National Science Foundation.
Former students, colleagues and friends gathered Friday, October 7 to celebrate the career and scientific accomplishments of Muawia Barazangi, who passed away March 30, 2022. The Cornell University... Read more about Remembering Muawia Barazangi at the 2022 Kaufman INSTOC Symposium
Wanted: a carbon-free energy source with which to heat buildings in populated regions with cold winters. That is the challenge being tackled by Cornell University as it assesses Earth Source Heat, a vision to heat campus using geothermal energy. A busy year of progress was powered by expertise and efforts within the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences. Read more about Advancing geothermal exploration at Cornell University
As surveying the cosmos for the new James Webb Space Telescope gets hot, Cornell researchers have modeled and synthesized lava in order to discover far-away, volcanic exoplanets. Read more about Synthetic lava in the lab aids exoplanet exploration
