Originally presented 8 Dec 2012 NOTE; THE TROPAG PROGRAM IS NOW THE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD C=SECURITY CENTER. Tropical Agricultural Program, Columbia Earth Institute The double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition affects more than two billion people around...
Originally presented 12 Dec 2009 This is the 100th (!) Earth2Class Workshop. Permission to develop these Saturday morning programs bringing classroom teachers and research scientists together was first granted in 1998 by Dr. John Mutter, then the Acting Director of...
Organized by Dr. Michael J Passow Supported by the Robert and Catherine Murray Charitable Trust 10 Sep 2016 With support from the Robert and Catherine Murray Charitable Trust, we are developing a suite of educational resources to teach about the...
The Source and Solution to Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Guest Scientist: Benjamin Bostick (Image credit: G. Hofer) Originally presented: 28 Mar 2015 Abstract:Arsenic is one of the most ubiquitous contaminants in groundwater and a major cause of disease worldwide....
with Dr. Andrew Juhl Originally presented 23 Jan 2010 (This is the 101st E2C Workshop.) The Hudson River has a long history of environmental degradation, with great improvements in recent decades. Nevertheless, sewage contamination remains an intermittent...
with Karen Smith (Oct 2013) Dr. Karen Smith is an atmospheric scientist and a post-doctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Her research interests lie in better understanding climate variability on seasonal to...
Mark Becker, CIESINOriginally presented 14 December 2013 WITH GREAT SORROW, WE NOTE THE PASSING OF MARK BECKER IN A MULTI-VEHICLE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTIN FEBRUARY 2014. Overview The Climate Change and Human Health project is designed to provide...
Originally presented 7 Mar 2015 Dr. Taro Takahashi is the Ewing Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. He is the Principal Investigator in Lamont’s Carbon Dioxide Research Group...
Originally presented 10 Jan 2015 ...
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...