http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/17/making-sense-of-climates-impact-on-food-security/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/17/making-sense-of-climates-impact-on-food-security/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:26:55 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34134 From warmer temperatures to natural disasters such as flooding and drought, changing patterns of climate are having billion-dollar impacts on our food-growing systems. But scientists are struggling to find ways to measure and predict what may happen in the future—and to translate that into policies to help feed a bulging world population.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/17/making-sense-of-climates-impact-on-food-security/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/18/new-public-outreach-prize-goes-to-earth-institute-climatologist/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/18/new-public-outreach-prize-goes-to-earth-institute-climatologist/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:06:41 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=19027 A major new international prize for public communication on climate-change issues has been awarded to Gavin Schmidt of the Earth Institute-affiliated NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The $25,000 Climate Communications Prize was announced today by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest organization of earth and space scientists. Schmidt, an influential climate modeler who has authored more than [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/18/new-public-outreach-prize-goes-to-earth-institute-climatologist/feed/ 0