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July 2018
Lamont researchers tap into automated tools to track birds and other animals in remote places for clues about how wildlife is adapting to warming temperatures and changeable weather.
Study Signals Change in How Scientists Calculate Ancient Diets
Scientists have long determined what extinct animals ate by analyzing carbon isotopes locked inside their fossil teeth. Recently researchers have discovered that the isotopic record depends on the animal’s body mass.
A World Warmer by Just 2°C Will Be Very Different from Today
Even if we limit global warming to no more than 2°C above preindustrial levels, as the Paris Agreement aims, the world is in store for some dramatic changes, according to a new study.
Shrinking Ice Sheet Made A Surprising Comeback
According to a new study, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has regrown in recent history—and the process was driven by its own shrinking.
Days on Earth Are Getting Longer. You Can Thank the Moon, Not the Seasons.
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer. Very slowly.
Education Section
Do scientists have superhero skills? Geoscientists spend years refining their skills and building an understanding of the Earth and Earth processes before they are able to do things like use clues in the landscape to build the geologic history of an area, read the mud in a core to see back in time, or develop computer models to project from the past into the future. These skills can easily translate into the world of superheroes with super-human strength, X-ray vision, or magically ordering sequences in computer code. Recognizing the ability of superheroes to capture the imagination and the interest of students, we selected them as a method for communicating our science. Working with the scientists from our NSF-funded Snow on Ice project (http://blog.ldeo.columbia.edu/snowonice/), we are developing a series of science superheroes with their unique super skills around that project.
Lamont in the Media
California’s Clearer Skies Raise Fire Risk
The Guardian
Algorithms Aid Tracking of Migrating Songbirds in Arctic
Voice of America
Rising bedrock below West Antarctica could delay catastrophic ice sheet collapse
Science
The Sounds of Climate Change
Science Daily
Ozone Alert!
Nyack News & Views
Poisoned Gardens
WNYC
The Moon’s Gradual Retreat Is Lengthening Days
Discover
Volcano Vocabulary to Help You Understand the Most Recent Eruptions
Popular Science
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