While El Niño often brings drought conditions to India, it also increases likelihood of devastating downpours in some of most heavily populated regions, finds new study by City College of NY, @lamont.columbia.edu, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, UCLA scientists: lamont.columbia.edu/news/study-e...

New study by Millburn, NJ HS student Ishaan Bharadwaj and LDEO biological oceanographer Joaquim Goes examines use of waxworm saliva to degrade polystyrene, a polymer known for its resistance to environmental breakdown. Via Journal of Emerging Investigators: emerginginvestigators.org/articles/25-...

🚢 During transit on MGL 2509, the R/V Marcus G. Langseth used high-resolution multibeam sonar to map a stretch of seafloor previously uncharted in this level of detail! With only 27.3% of the seafloor mapped per @seabed2030.bsky.social, there is so much more of our planet to explore.

🚢 Reflections from the Galápagos Islands on the science, the stories, and the unforgettable shores of R/V Marcus G. Langseth expedition MGL 2508. Learn more: instagram.com/p/DO3snZ3jya0

Public, private, and nonprofit organizations, submit a proposal for a Columbia Climate School Capstone Project, pairing you with team of graduate consultants from our Master's Programs to deliver tailored analysis, strategies, and recommendations. Learn more/submit by Oct 6: bit.ly/capstone26

Be part of #ClimateWeekNYC #ColumbiaClimateWeek 2025, with a full slate of events running Sep 21-28 from @climate.columbia.edu and our partners across @columbiauniversity.bsky.social (climate.columbia.edu/climate-week). Learn more via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/09/16/j...

🌊 HS students, explore how climate change is impacting Earth's water systems in our virtual, 7-week pre-college workshop (Sat mornings Oct 18-Dec 6) led by @lamont.columbia.edu's Margie Turrin and Marisa Annunziato. ✅ Register for Sep 24 virtual info session: www.climate.columbia.edu/ripple-effec...

📣 Postdoc opportunity alert! Join our dynamic community of Earth, environmental, and climate scientists as LDEO postdoctoral fellow. Principal criteria: scientific excellence + clear plan to investigate problems at forefront of Earth science. ➡️ Apply by Nov 7: lamont.columbia.edu/about/postdo...

📣#MTTM Jill Paquette is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working in the Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. She uses computational approaches and lab culturing methods to investigate how nutrient stress affects the gene expression of eukaryotic phytoplankton 🌊🦠.

On Sep 24, join us for our showcase #ClimateWeekNYC #ColumbiaClimateWeek event convening leaders whose decisions shape climate action across borders and sectors alongside Columbia faculty and researchers at the forefront of climate solutions: www.climate.columbia.edu/events/globa...

This #ClimateWeekNYC, we and our partners across Columbia University are excited to offer a full lineup of events and coverage on climate justice, climate policy, sustainable fashion, global climate response, and much more in the work to advance climate solutions: climate.columbia.edu/climate-week

Join Columbia Global Centers and Columbia Climate School on the Road to COP30 Brazil, a worldwide series of online events connecting faculty with local experts to spotlight what each region needs from this year's UN climate conference. 🌎 Learn more/register today: www.climate.columbia.edu/cop30

Tree ring scientists Caroline Leland and Mukund Rao of LDEO's Tree Ring Lab are building a quiet but effective bridge between science and salvage—ensuring that irreplaceable wood and the rich clues to climate data and human history it holds don't go to waste. 🪵 lamont.columbia.edu/news/rings-t...

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Climate Week NYC 2025, rising threat to NYC food system, distinguished fellows program, glacial ice loss, chat with Professor @sheilarose.bsky.social, new faculty, more from Columbia Climate School and State of the Planet! ➡️ us8.campaign-archive.com?e=17f790cedd...

🏆 Congratulations to @lamont.columbia.edu soil systems scientist Yushu Xia, a recipient of Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research New Innovator Award, recognizing promising research in opening new avenues of knowledge to deliver groundbreaking solutions: foundationfar.org/news/ffar-an...

Join us during #ClimateWeek @Columbia for an @aqtoolbox.org event, "Data and Partnerships for Global Clean Air and Climate" @columbiaseas.bsky.social @climate.columbia.edu @climategroup.bsky.social @openaq.org @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu @dwesty.bsky.social

Measurements analyzed by an international research team, including LDEO oceanographer/carbon cycle scientist @oceancarbon.bsky.social, indicate the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023: lamont.columbia.edu/news/ocean-c...

news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/09/04/t... We've had a new analysis published on the impact on the ocean carbon sink from the unprecedented ocean warming of 2023.

Day2, #ICP15, perspective talk by Sid Hemming @lamont.columbia.edu talking about The State of the Antarctic Ice Sheets Across the Plio-Pleistocene Transition - introduced by Steve Barker and helping on the stage Satya Chanakya 🙏🏼

Even if global temperatures plateau, glaciers worldwide will continue to melt, finds a new study. Lamont geologist Mike Kaplan says glaciers are "the proverbial canary in the coal mine...a direct physical manifestation of atmospheric conditions." Via GlacierHub: lamont.columbia.edu/news/study-f...

hi bluesky~ my name is tess, and i'm a climate scientist studying drought, fire, and climate variability and change! i recently defended my PhD on the climate dynamics that drive forest fire in the Western US at @lamont.columbia.edu and started as an NPP fellow at NASA GISS. excited to be here ❤

C-CoMP participated in the 2025 Woods Hole Science Stroll! Our booth, called the “Artistic Oceanographer”, invited visitors to explore & imagine incredible adaptations of marine phytoplankton. Thanks to our volunteers & the Dyhrman Lab @lamont.columbia.edu for creating this activity!

We are proud to announce the launch of the Climate, Earth, and Society Distinguished Fellows Program, a new initiative to bring renowned experts and changemakers to the Columbia Climate School campus starting spring 2026. Learn more and apply/nominate: news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/08/18/c...

🚢 After a journey across the Pacific, R/V Marcus G. Langseth rested at anchor in the Galápagos Islands. With no dock in sight, the MGL 2507 School of Rock science party made their way ashore by water taxi, the island version of a New York City yellow cab! Learn more: instagram.com/p/DNYOJysMm1X

Earth scientists know a lot more about getting out of an ice age than going into one. We report an episode of AMOC slowdown at 115 thousand years ago that's likely astronomically forced (via sea-ice) and coincides with a delayed drawdown of atmospheric CO2 @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eALD1

🚢 Following a rare mid-ocean ridge eruption, MGL 2507 School of Rock team aboard R/V Marcus G. Langseth helped deploy five ocean bottom seismometers! Learn more: instagram.com/p/DNTcBTFp8iH/

🚢 R/V Marcus G. Langseth science officer Cody Bahlau reports on one of the most beloved shipboard traditions that made waves on MGL 2507 School of Rock: the Cup Dunk! Learn more: instagram.com/p/DNQsO0-MZbX

Since NJ is in middle of N. American plate, stresses aren't as great, leading to fewer earthquakes, but when one does happen, it's felt over much wider area because Earth's crust is older than in CA, but also colder & less fractured, explains @lamont.columbia.edu expert Mike Steckler. Via ABC News.

🧵1/6 Meet the amazing instructor team that led MGL 2507: School of Rock, NSF-supported professional development program for Earth & ocean science educators, traveling to Galápagos Islands aboard R/V Marcus G. Langseth. 📷 Team lead Sharon Cooper, @lamont.columbia.edu. ➡️ instagram.com/p/DNLZu5dMQnm

Why TX floods were so devastating, clean air and warming, impact of burned Amazon forests, marine microbes, tariffs and circular economy, Mars-Earth planetary cycle, hidden megathrust earthquake, and more from Columbia Climate School and State of the Planet! ➡️ mailchi.mp/climate/jul3...

New Jerseyans may not realize they live on fault zone, making region susceptible to earthquakes. Not a single fault, but a lot of parallel faults. When you break something, you might get a lot of fractures and splinters...that's also what the Earth does, says LDEO's James Davis. Via @gothamist.com.

In the past, emissions from power plants or vehicles were bigger drivers of bad air quality. Now, wildfires are pretty much the whole story when it comes to air quality problems in the US, says @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist @dwesty.bsky.social. Via @npr.org.

"It's important for us to increase earthquake/geo-hazard education, increase our understanding of the process and the systems, do more monitoring and support monitoring activity," says @lamont.columbia.edu structural geologist Folarin Kolawole. Via @nbcnewyork.com.

Every earthquake should be a reminder of how important it is to adhere to safe building standards and to continue studying the seismology of the area, says @lamont.columbia.edu geodesist James Davis. Via @nypost.com.

"It's not that rare and one thing that we do have that's quite different than out West is our crust is very old, so we feel earthquakes more intensely and from farther away for a given size," says Lamont geodesist James Davis. Via @abc7ny.bsky.social.

Our @lamont.columbia.edu seismometer recorded 2.7-magnitude earthquake today Aug 5 12:11pm ET, which took place 1 mile SW of Hillsdale, NJ, and 3.0-magnitude quake, which struck ~10:20pm on Sat Aug 2 near NJ's Teterboro Airport. Our work anticipating earthquakes: lamont.columbia.edu/anticipating...

📣#MTTM Amanda Ellis is a C-CoMP B2P fellow working with Drs. Sarah Hurley & Sonya Dyhrman @lamont.columbia.edu. She studies the ability of marine phytoplankton 🌊 to acclimate + evolve to increasing temperature🌡️+ acidity by tracking changes to oxygen evolution + respiration rate.

Mission Spiritus in Faroe Islands, hidden megathrust earthquake, marine microbes, Mars-Earth planetary cycle, clean air and warming, how rivers choose their paths, Marie Tharp, AI and climate justice, Science Saturdays at Field Station! ➡️ lamontdohertyearthobservatory.cmail19.com/t/d-e-glrill...

Radley Horton, @climate.columbia.edu professor of climate and @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist, connects the dots between hotter temperatures, drenching rains, NYC's air quality alerts, and Canadian wildfires. Via @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social.

How much carbon can ocean absorb as the planet warms? @lamont.columbia.edu microbial oceanographer Sonya Dyhrman studies marine microbes, which underpin the dynamics of the ocean’s highly complex ecosystem, and are pivotal in how much carbon the ocean can hold: lamont.columbia.edu/news/tiny-gi...

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland's ice sheet when a hidden lake burst through the surface. "This is another piece in the puzzle of how big pieces of ice on our planet work," says @lamont.columbia.edu geophysicist Robin Bell. Via @sciam.bsky.social.

🎂 Happy birthday, #MarieTharp! 🗺️ A pioneering geologist and cartographer, Tharp created some of the world's first maps of the ocean floor, and helped prove the theory of plate tectonics. Her legacy reverberates across ocean sciences today. Learn more: lamont.columbia.edu/news/happy-b...

Training schools focused on modeling solid Earth responses to ice mass changes offer lessons on how early-career scientists can build networks and learn skills to solve complex problems, write @lamont.columbia.edu's Andrew Lloyd and colleagues. Via @agu.org Eos.

GreenDrill project co-led by @lamont.columbia.edu's Joerg Schaefer and @ubuffalo.bsky.social's Jason Briner has made sobering findings by studying the ice sheet and its bedrock. ‪@sciam.bsky.social‬‬'s Jeffery DelViscio learned first-hand what it's like to live and work in this extreme environment.

As DSI Scholars for the Spring 2025 term, Master's in Computer Science students Anushka Agarwal (left) & Pei Tian (right) developed a classification system that can rapidly and accurately identify phytoplankton species based on their distinct features. 🌊

Grape cultivation is a well-documented example of connection between climate, terroir, and flavor, says @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist Ben Cook, co-author of study finding that grape diversification is necessary to adapt to changing climate. Via @forbes.com. www.forbes.com/sites/louise...

Now aboard R/V Marcus G. Langseth is School of Rock, a long-running professional development program for Earth and ocean science educators grades 5–12, traveling to the Galápagos Islands to explore core analysis, seafloor processes, paleoceanography, and more! ➡️ instagram.com/p/DMiJacsv9Xd/

Studying glacial isostatic adjustment is vital for projecting future sea levels, but getting into this field poses challenges to early-career scientists, say @rebekka-geo.bsky.social & @landuplift.bsky.social + colleagues from @byrdpolar.bsky.social & @lamont.columbia.edu. eos.org/features/get...

In latest expedition to uncover spread of microplastics and nanoplastics in world's most remote locations, Mission Spiritus is in Faroe Islands July 16-26 under scientific direction of LDEO paleoclimatologist/marine geologist Maureen Raymo. Follow the expedition: missionspiritus.com/mission-spir...

🚢 Every successful CTD deployment on the R/V Marcus G. Langseth starts here, in the Winch Booth, perched above the working deck with one of the best views on the ship. Learn more from science officer Cody Bahlau, reporting from expedition MGL 2506: instagram.com/p/DMc6n6pyedP