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A guide to some of the most provocative and groundbreaking talks at the world’s largest gathering of earth and space scientists.
Tharp co-published the first world map of the ocean floors and helped prove the theory of continental drift.
Several weeks during summer 2021 saw heat records in the western United States and Canada broken not just by increments, but by tens of degrees, an event of unprecedented extremity. To what degree was it climate change, bad luck, or a combination?
LAMONT IN THE MEDIA
November 28, 2022
Predicting the Earthquake that Could Wreck New York
November 21, 2022
Celebrating Marie Tharp
November 21, 2022
A Climate Scientist’s Personal Reckoning
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Post-COP 27 Debrief: Panel & Reception
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