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“GEOTRACES Project Education Outreach: Demystifying Radioactivity” with Tim Kenna and Margie Turrin (22 Nov 2014)
Originally presented: 22 November of 2014 Tim Kenna (LDEO Research Scientist) and Margie Turrin (LDEO Education Coordinator) return to E2C to share some innovative discoveries and present draft version of curriculum activities for teacher feedback. Radioactivity, both...
“How Have Glaciers Behaved in Patagonia in the Past?” with Michael Kaplan (Oct 2014)
Originally presented 25 October 2014 Summary: Patagonia contains the largest amount of glacier ice in the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctica. Historical records show that the Patagonian Ice Fields are some of the fastest disappearing, large ice masses in the...
“Trees, Climate, and Societal Relevance: A Case Study in Mongolia” with Caroline Leland and Mukund Palat Rao (Sep 2014)
Abstract: Tree rings are a valuable proxy used for understanding past environmental conditions. Information attained from tree rings can provide information relevant to climatology, ecology, archaeology, and can also be applied to other important disciplines like...
“Developing Better Understanding of Hurricanes” with Allison Wing (14 Nov 2015)
Originally presented 14 Nov 2015 Funded in part by NOAA Award Number NA15NOS0080223 through the National Ocean Service I am currently a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in...
“Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheets” with Frank Nitsche
Originally presented 13 Feb 2016 Abstract:Satellite measurements are showing that the large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are thinning and losing mass. The melting of these ice sheets is increasing sea level globally and endangering coastal areas. One...
“Discover the Polar Explorer: Sea Level Rise App” with Margie Turrin & Dave Porter (5 Mar and 9 Apr 2016)
Margie Turrin and Dave Porter Originally presented 5 Mar 2016 at Lamont and 9 Apr 2016 at the Morningside Campus Development of the Polar Explorer: Sea Level app funded by the NSF under Cooperative Agreement No. DUE-1239783. Workshop funded in part by NOAA Award...
“Impact of CO2 on the Earth’s Environment: Science behind the Paris Climate Accord” with Taro Takahashi (19 Mar 2016)
Originally presented 19 Mar 2016 Workshop funded in part by NOAA Award Number NA15NOS0080223 through the National Ocean Service We are honored to welcome back to E2C Dr. Taro Takahashi, the Ewing Lamont Research Professor and one of the world’s most prominent...
Studying phytoplankton adaptations to different marine environments” with Solange Duhamel & Andy Juhl
Originally presented 7 May 2016 Abstract: Phytoplankton are microscopic plants that float in the water and use sunlight, CO2 and nutrients to grow: like trees on land, they are primary producers at the base of the food web. They are essential to life on Earth...
“What Can Dust Reveal about Past Climates?” with Jerry McManus, Gisela Winckler, and Allison Jacobel
Originally presented 22 Oct 2016 (Morningside Campus)Support in part by National Science Foundation Award #1502889 Windblown dust plays important roles in influencing and recording climate change. In the atmosphere, dust contributes to the...