Tour Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Register for an Upcoming Tour

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory currently offers limited in-person tours on a bi-monthly schedule.

The next tour will take place in June. If interested in participating, please complete our tour inquiry form.

To learn more about some of our featured labs, visit:

Deep Sea Core Repository
Seismic Sound Lab
Rock and Ice Mechanics Lab
Trace Isotope and Noble Gas Laboratory (TINGL Lab)
Tree Ring Lab

Note: Tour participants may include individuals, schools, and groups. No visitor under the age of fourteen is allowed in any University laboratory except for organized tours. Additional age restrictions may apply depending on specific labs visited. For school groups, we recommend scheduling visits to the Lamont-Doherty Hudson River Field Station during the fall or spring.

Questions? Contact us.

About Us

Established in 1949, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is home to the greatest breadth of Earth science research and forms the core of Columbia University's world-leadership in climate change research and adaptation.

Located on 189 acres with sanctuary forests on New York's Hudson River, our campus is home to a dynamic community of 500 scientists, students, and staff, with nearly 300 PhD-level researchers, and 80-90 graduate students involved in research.

Lamont is known for many firsts:

• First to map the ocean floor and its mineral wealth
• First to predict El Nino events
• Built the first lunar seismometer deployed by Apollo astronauts
• Provided key evidence of plate tectonics
• Proved orbital theory of climate
• First demonstration air carbon capture and storage