Posted by Editor | Nov 5, 2009 | 1 Comments
Pending approval by the University Senate, the program plans to accept the first class beginning in fall 2010.
Columbia University’s Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education are pleased to announce a new Master of Science program which, pending approval by the University Senate, will admit its first class beginning in fall 2010.
The M.S. in [...]
Posted by Margie Turrin | Nov 5, 2009 | 0 Comments
Not all rides in the DC-8 are smooth and effortless. Our flight down the Thwaites Glacier was a race against weather, with the stomach-churning quality of a carnival ride. Both the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers flow into the Amundsen Sea. This section of Antarctica, along the western coastline just below the continent’s peninsular [...]
Posted by Editor | Nov 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
Today is the first World Pneumonia Day (WPD). To demonstrate your solidarity with the millions of children who are afflicted with pneumonia every year, WPD asks that you wear blue jeans to school, work, or wherever you go on this day.
WPD has organized a Global Pneumonia Summit of over 100 media representatives, scientists, [...]
Posted by Margie Turrin | Oct 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Skimming across the Weddell Sea at 250 miles per hour I am finally on the way to Antarctica. Even though my visit to the white continent will be at a height of 1500 ft I still feel a sense of ‘homecoming’, as if I am back for a field season on the peninsula.
Sea ice is [...]
Posted by Editor | Oct 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
After flying for several hours over a windswept Southern Ocean, the mission director announces that we will be slowly descending towards Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Just below are the Hudson Mountains, a small group of extinct volcanoes poking through the ice.
As we approach our survey area, John Sonntag from NASA’s flight facility on Wallops Island [...]
Posted by Urban Design Lab | Oct 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
With an Italian background, from a culture of food, as biologist and one time theatre producer, to me it makes sense to work with a research group that has the courage to break many taboos and re-discuss academic assumptions in an open and innovative way.
Posted by Editor | Oct 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
I have become a night watchman of sorts. The gravimeter we’re using in our flights over Antarctica must remain powered at all times, so between flights I hole up in the old terminal next to the aircraft watching, …and watching. We won’t be on the first few flights, so our focus for now is to [...]
Posted by Sarah Wakefield Adhya | Oct 14, 2009 | 1 Comments
Typically, development professionals do not have the background in the natural and health sciences they need to properly understand the complex forces affecting issues such as hunger and extreme poverty. The innovative M.P.A. in Development Practice, which started this fall, is meant to help change that.
This degree is the first of a network of Master’s [...]
Posted by Urban Design Lab | Oct 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
In public debate about the future of America’s energy policy, the Northeast region is in contention regarding gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale field. With this project, we focused on the Marcellus Shale gas extraction along the Upper Delaware, in the Town of Hancock. The process of extraction includes potential environmental hazards and while contentious, is devoid of local oversight. To date, just in Hancock, more than twenty-five percent of the town’s land has been leased for gas drilling.
Posted by Editor | Oct 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nick Frearson, Gravimeter Instrument Team, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory:
The flight engineer ticks off instruments over the intercom. “LVIS, ready.” “Gravity, ready.” “DACOM, ready.”
We are about to take the DC-8 on its first test flight before Antarctica. The pilots, clipped and professional, have just described the day’s flight plans and the plane is bustling with people making [...]
