💡Today I Learned (TIL): Indi Richardson, MS in Climate In Climate Risk Assessment (Radley Horton & Kevin Schwarzwald), I learned the importance of uncertainty in climate models & projected impacts. Different models have different assumptions, biases, uncertainties that can create different outputs.

💡Today I Learned (TIL): Annika K. Bellot, MA Climate & Society In Black Ecologies with Kristina Douglass, I learned about Leah Penniman’s academic framing of Black connection with land not simply through a lens of suffering but through one that promotes healing, reconnection and possibility.

On the Field Geology Barbados spring break trip, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social student Julian Esler explains how this mushroom rock is made out of fossil coral reef, but not one that grew here! 🤔 So where did it come from? 🎥 by Ally Peccia

On Field Geology Barbados trip, students ventured into Cole's Cave. Barbados is formed from uplift of accretionary sediments with coral reef building on top of them. Caves form when groundwater reacts with carbonate fossil coral reef rocks, becomes acidic, and dissolves calcite.

3 Insights on the Future of Our Planet 🤔 1️⃣ Scientists have harnessed AI to reveal a major shift in oceans. 🌊 2️⃣ Next generation of climate leadership is global and interdisciplinary. 🎓 3️⃣ Closing the gender gap is essential to climate solutions. 👩🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩‍🔬 📩 Learn more/subscribe: climate.columbia.edu/join

Droughts, extreme heat, unpredictable rainfall are profoundly affecting olive oil quality, quantity, and price. "The challenge right now, with a more rapidly changing climate, is that it puts pressure on our food systems," says Columbia Climate School professor Michael Puma. https://bit.ly/4c5VYkP

3 Insights on the Future of Our Planet 🤔 1️⃣ Scientists have harnessed AI to reveal a major shift in oceans. 🌊 2️⃣ Next generation of climate leadership is global and interdisciplinary. 🎓 3️⃣ Closing the gender gap is essential to climate solutions. 👩🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩‍🔬 📩 Learn more/subscribe: climate.columbia.edu/join

On the Field Geology Barbados spring break trip, coral reef scientist/marine ecologist Bill Precht and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social environmental biology student Ellen Lansing check out a very large fossil fragment of staghorn coral from a Pleistocene age coral reef! 🎥 by Ally Peccia

Meet MS in Climate student Allison Karabu who believes that communities are the foundation of climate resilience, finding that the most durable preparedness infrastructure is often already there, just underfunded and overlooked. Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4lNj6rx

Join LDEO scientists at Brooklyn's @pioneerwork.bsky.social: * Apr 9 Do Forests Feel with @mukund24rao.bsky.social & Cari Leland of LDEO Tree Ring Lab: https://bit.ly/3NkuVZN * Apr 12 2nd Sundays with Rao & Leland + climate scientist Marco Tedesco on Greenland's melting ice: https://bit.ly/47kybep

Climate finance has failed Africa twice over, writes Lisa Sachs, director of @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social and our MS in Climate Finance program, outlining how to fix it beyond net zero plans and mitigation commitments: https://bit.ly/47OjEaU

New study co-led by PhD student/LDEO researcher Hanna Anderson and Yuting Zhu of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identifies a diverse set of previously hard-to-detect molecules released by marine phytoplankton that fuel microbial life and help drive Earth's carbon cycle: https://bit.ly/4rV9zAs

Degrowth vs. Green Growth, our inaugural Perspectives Dialogue Series event, brought together prominent thinkers with diverse perspectives on capitalism and the role it could play in solving climate change. Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/3PE5X8h

Guardians of the Glaciers by Ángela Ponce at Instituto Cervantes documents the lives of women & families in the high-mountain community of Phinaya in the Peruvian Andes where residents' livelihoods depend on Quelccaya ice cap, now imperiled by climate change. Via GlacierHub: https://bit.ly/4rIunuA

The Westies—Manhattan Middle School students from NYC's Upper West Side—talk with Columbia Climate School professor/climate scientist Jason Smerdon about ice cores, tree rings, what humans have done to this planet, and what kids can do to help make a difference. 🎙️ https://apple.co/4sVTJpZ

🤔 Wonder what it's like to study climate in an interdisciplinary, solutions-focused setting at the Columbia Climate School? 🎥 Six of our incredible master's students share their experiences—from academics and career pathways to building community in NYC: https://youtu.be/ClYkqVeSLtw

🚨🚨🚨 Six universities will receive $250K each through the Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement (MA3) Challenge to pilot bold reforms in faculty hiring, evaluation, promotion, and tenure systems. Today @orca-open.bsky.social is excited to announce the inaugural MA3 awardees. [1/5]

This #WomensHistoryMonth, join us for two events highlighting this year's theme, Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future. 🎥 Mar 18 screening of STILL WORKING 9-5: https://bit.ly/4bwN5PQ 💬 Mar 23 Women in Science panel discussion: https://bit.ly/4sOxqSS

March is known for volatile weather, but even by March standards, this one has been especially chaotic. What's going on, and what role is climate change playing in all of it? Experts including LDEO climate scientist Mark Cane explain. Via @nytimes.com. https://nyti.ms/47Pcjrw

Climate finance has failed Africa twice over, writes Lisa Sachs, director of @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social and our MS in Climate Finance program, outlining how to fix it beyond net zero plans and mitigation commitments. Via @us.theconversation.com. https://bit.ly/4rxlJPz

"Energy sovereignty, industrial competitiveness, and economic resilience now point in precisely the same direction: a regional, integrated, decarbonized energy system," write @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social experts Lisa Sachs and Bradford Willis. Via The Straits Times. https://bit.ly/4lvLbDz

#ICYMI Can capitalism solve climate change? Conversation co-hosted with @columbiajournalism.bsky.social and moderated by our Dean Alexis Abramson with Chris Van de Voorde, Archana Shah, @katearonoff.bsky.social (@newrepublic.com)#ICYMI Aniket Shah. 🎥 Degrowth vs. Green Growth: https://bit.ly/4cKmelH

"Every El Niño is different in terms of timing, magnitude, and geographic extent, and such differences lead to variability in the impacts—on temperatures and rainfall, for example—on a global scale," says expert @wxpizza.bsky.social of @ncdp.bsky.social. Via ABC News. https://bit.ly/47AF5fx

Our Climate Education for a Resilient Future Earth Network took part in NYC Mid-Winter Climate Institute, hosting sessions to equip K12 teachers with resources, lesson plans, activities, and tools for engaging climate education in the classroom and beyond: https://bit.ly/4rAycCf

😃 HS students, jump in & see what you'll discover at Columbia Climate School in Green Mountains where you'll be empowered to drive change for sustainable future! 📅 RSVP Mar 19 info session with alum Brian Zeng, @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social's Martin Dietrich Brauch, Ben Baraga: https://bit.ly/48Vyxbc

In a process scientists call "Greenlandification," scientists have found that Antarctica's ice loss is increasing rapidly, mirroring the melting of its northern counterpart, Greenland. Via GlacierHub / State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4um4zXX

In Earth's Past and Future (https://bit.ly/40uJGvU)... 🌿 AI Reveals Alarming Global Surge in Floating Algae ❄️ Antarctic Ice Retreat Linked to Reduced Carbon Uptake 🌊 Past Sea Levels Help Predict Future Risks 🦪 Community Science Projects 🧊 Climate & Ice Lecture 📩 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/4upByul

🚢 After months of preparation, R/V Marcus G. Langseth departed San Diego to begin MGL 2602, the EPR 4-D Seismic Time-Lapse Project (epr4d.ucsd.edu) at 9°50′N on the East Pacific Rise. Learn more: instagram.com/p/DVrm4KiDZsF

Our LDEO seismometer recorded the 2.1-magnitude earthquake today Mar 10 at 10:17am ET. The preliminary location is Elmsford, NY, in Westchester County, with an uncertainty of 0.7 km, about 4.6 km SSE of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Our work anticipating earthquakes: https://bit.ly/4cFyOTo

There is still time to register.

Can AI transform education without compromising the rights, safety, and futures of children? New report from our Center for Sustainable Development and FII Institute examines how AI is reshaping classrooms. Learn more: https://fii-institute.org/publication/ai-and-ethics-of-smart-education

🌋 LDEO volcanologists Terry Plank & @einatlev.bsky.social are hard at work at Chile's Villarrica Volcano, which while calm today, violently erupted just 11 years ago. The AVERT team (avert.ldeo.columbia.edu) and OVDAS colleagues are installing instruments to improve monitoring and forecasting.

TOMORROW: Join @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org and @climate.columbia.edu for a panel discussion on the path to advocating market-based solutions for mitigating climate change with @adamtooze.bsky.social, @cassieflynn.bsky.social, @akshatrathi.bsky.social, and Alexis Abramson.

Insurance payments and funding are the key needs for rebuilding, noted Schlegelmilch. In addition, locally driven innovations to help Altadena residents return home should be pushed and celebrated. ow.ly/TNXs50YrmEV @lapublicpress.bsky.social @climate.columbia.edu

📣 Can't join us in-person today (Mon Mar 9) for our Perspectives Dialogue Series event, Degrowth vs. Green Growth? ▶️ Join webinar (6pm ET): https://bit.ly/4suzxet Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qVH7xA

On Mar 11 4-4:30pm ET, join us for Biodiversity Finance 101! @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Biodiversity Club's Leilani Salas and Turner Watkins will explore how capital can accelerate—and benefit from—biodiversity restoration. RSVP today (FREE but registration required): https://bit.ly/47vnWnm

Art and science are both driven by the desire to find and understand patterns that emerge from noise. Research as Art—organized by LDEO's Ally Peccia, Aviva Intveld, Caitlin Locke, Hanna Anderson, Lindsay Hogan, Phoebe Salowey—celebrates these endeavors: https://bit.ly/4ugP2sk

CCSI’s Lisa Sachs joined Bloomberg’s Zero: The Climate Race podcast to discuss why the current system isn’t designed to address long-term climate risk—and what needs to change. 🎧 Listen Here: www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2... @climate.columbia.edu

Can capitalism solve climate change? On Mar 9, join our Dean Alexis Abramson and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social's Marguerite Holloway for a dialogue with @katearonoff.bsky.social (@newrepublic.com), Aniket Shah, Chris Van de Voorde, and Archana Shah. Learn more/RSVP: https://bit.ly/4qVH7xA

🌋 On Sat Mar 7 1pm ET, join LDEO volcanologist @einatlev.bsky.social LIVE on her YouTube (youtube.com/@einatlev) from Chile's Villarrica Volcano where the AVERT project (avert.ldeo.columbia.edu) is working to improve volcano monitoring and eruption forecasting!

📣 Job Alert! Columbia Climate School seeks Lecturer in Discipline of Climate with expertise in climate change mitigation, adaptation, climate justice, and/or climate & food systems to teach within our interdisciplinary degree programs. ➡️ Learn more/apply (and please share!): https://bit.ly/4ss3dJf

👏 Meet our inaugural Dean's Graduate Scholars, 8 MS in Climate (https://bit.ly/4u9S5Tf) students with diverse backgrounds, from engineering & policy to data science & environmental justice, who are united by a shared commitment to advancing climate solutions around the world: https://bit.ly/3OS0xWV

On Mar 25 6-8pm ET, join us for Climate and Ice: From Rising Seas to Shrinking Mountain Glaciers, with LDEO geochemist Joerg Schaefer who will explore how fast ice is melting, where it is changing most rapidly, and how we can respond to these challenges. RSVP: https://bit.ly/4b8S9K7

In Building Climate Justice: Co-Creative Coastal Resilience Planning, students worked in interdisciplinary teams with community organizations South Bronx Unite and Staten Island Urban Center on a new kind of climate action that is technical, deeply human, and collaborative: https://bit.ly/4bq2bI1

On Mar 10, join @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org & @climate.columbia.edu for conversation on advancing market-based solutions for mitigating climate change with Dean Alexis Abramson, UNDP's @cassieflynn.bsky.social, @bloomberg.com's @akshatrathi.bsky.social, Columbia's Adam Tooze: https://bit.ly/4aXZDRb

Unless women’s lived realities are embedded in AI's foundations, it risks reinforcing the very inequities it claims to solve, write @climate.columbia.edu postdoc Pavithra Priyadarshini Selvakumar & @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist Marco Tedesco. Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4rdmvkQ

Gain practical skills to lead resilient organizations in our 7-week, virtual professional learning workshop taught by professor Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of @ncdp.bsky.social. Learn More/Register by March 11, 2026: www.climate.columbia.edu/climate-and-...

Growing movement shows that protecting the world's forests—and the Indigenous people who safeguard them—is one of most powerful but overlooked tools in fight against climate change. Insights from @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social expert @hansikaagrawal.bsky.social. Via @bigthink.com. https://bit.ly/3MScZoQ

Job alert! Marine & Polar Geophysics division of @lamont.columbia.edu seeks senior staff associate to contrive, design, develop, optimize, and enhance complex data systems operated by the Lamont Geoinformatics Research Group. Please share! ➡️ https://academic.careers.columbia.edu/#!/163855

Climate scientist @wxpizza.bsky.social of @ncdp.bsky.social is watching how forecasters factor AI predictions into public storm warnings. "Even if models are considered better or high quality, decision-making is not necessarily simplified," he says. Via @bloomberg.com. https://bloom.bg/401O6dt