http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/14/a-guide-to-upcoming-scientific-fieldwork/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/14/a-guide-to-upcoming-scientific-fieldwork/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:42:38 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22831 [Last updated: Dec. 13, 2012] Journalists may join Earth Institute research field expeditions, which take place on every continent and every ocean. Below: selected projects, in rough chronological order. (Work in and around New York listed separately at bottom.) While in the field, researchers may be available by phone or email, depending on site. Some expeditions [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/14/a-guide-to-upcoming-scientific-fieldwork/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/08/time-and-technology-and-the-really-down-deep/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/08/time-and-technology-and-the-really-down-deep/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:20:12 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=15362 Two years before Google Earth was launched, Bill Ryan and Suzanne Carbotte, oceanographers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, began a project to transform the way we look at the ocean. They started collecting reams of data that had been gathered by scientists sailing on research vessels all over the world since the 1980s, one ship [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/08/time-and-technology-and-the-really-down-deep/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/05/maybe-ben-franklin-was-wrong/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/05/maybe-ben-franklin-was-wrong/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:01:10 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13476 A new study says that for all of its ill effects, the Laki volcanic eruption of 1783-84 probably was not the main culprit behind one of the coldest winters in hundreds of years, as many scientists — and contemporary observer Benjamin Franklin -- have speculated.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/05/maybe-ben-franklin-was-wrong/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/26/year-without-a-summer-not-this-time/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/26/year-without-a-summer-not-this-time/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:13:16 +0000 Cathy Vaughan http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/?p=1704 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/26/year-without-a-summer-not-this-time/feed/ 3