Disaster Experts: A Journalist's Guide
An all-purpose guide for journalists covering disasters, natural and manmade.
[THIS LIST WAS LAST UPDATED OCT. 25, 2023]
Columbia Climate School scientists can help journalists cover the causes, effects and implications of natural and manmade disasters, both sudden and slow moving. These include heat waves, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, wildfires, pollution spills, warfare and nuclear issues. Unless otherwise stated, researchers below are at our Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. For general questions regarding climate change, see our List of Climate Experts. For further advice, or questions about other earth sciences including geology, oceanography or atmosphere, contact Kevin Krajick, [email protected] or Caroline Adelman, [email protected].
Jump to:
- General disaster preparedness and response
- Epidemics and disease
- Droughts, storms, hurricanes, floods
- Heat/Cold waves
- Earthquakes and tsunamis
- Volcanoes
- Landslides, glacial outburst floods
- Wildfires
- Energy/Power outages
- Air and water pollution
- Locust plagues
- Environmental law
- Warfare/Civil conflict
- Nuclear issues
GENERAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE
Steven Cohen, Earth Institute professor and a former EPA official, has long studied how urban areas can become more resilient to disasters and longer-term challenges. He is author of Understanding Environmental Policy and other books. [email protected] | 212-854-1214
Irwin Redlener, physician and founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, is a leading thinker regarding emergency planning and response, and in dealing with the aftermaths of all kinds of disasters, including epidemics, hurricanes, earthquakes and terrorism. [email protected] | 212-535-9797
Jeffrey Schlegelmilch is director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. He has broad expertise relating to both disaster policy as well as the development and implementation of disaster preparedness, response and recovery programs. [email protected] | How to Prepare for a Hyperactive Hurricane Season
Jonathan Sury of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness leads a project that maps local vulnerability to a broad variety of disasters at the sub-county level. These include extreme heat, earthquakes, landslides, tornadoes and floods. The map is interactive and available to the public. [email protected] | Link to the map
Arthur Lerner-Lam , a seismologist by training, studies the broader economic and social factors that drive vulnerability to hazards such as earthquakes and hurricanes. [email protected] | 845-365-8348
John Mutter, who began as a geophysicist, studies the long-term economic costs of catastrophes. He is author of the book The Disaster Profiteers, about how the rich often benefit from disasters, and the poor suffer. He led a long-term effort to reach a definitive count of the casualties of Hurricane Katrina. [email protected] | 845-365-0716 | The Disaster Profiteers
Marc Levy is a political scientist at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network. He and colleagues map the interaction between humans and earth’s surface, generating global images vital for assessing hazards and risks ranging from sea-level rise to forced migration. [email protected] | 845-365-8964
Benjamin Orlove, an anthropologist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, studies the psychology and sociology of disasters, and how individuals prepare for and react to them. [email protected] | 212-854-1543
EPIDEMICS, DISEASE
See ‘CORONAVIRUS: EXPERT RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS, posted March 2020 and continuously updated.
EXTREME WEATHER: DROUGHTS, STORMS, HURRICANES, FLOODS
What Is Causing Devastating Floods?
Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist, heads Columbia’s Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate. Author of Storm Surge, a book about Hurricane Sandy, he assesses hurricanes and other extreme weather including the causes of cold and hot spells, and related social issues. [email protected] | 212-854-6587
Suzana Camargo is a professor of ocean and climate physics. She is an expert on hurricanes and cyclones, their genesis, intensity, and their relationship to climate, from intraseasonal to centennial time scales. [email protected] | 845-365-8640 | What Hurricane Forecasts Mean
Richard Seager, a climate scientist, studies large-scale cycles such as El Niño that influence weather, including floods, hurricanes snowstorms and droughts. He is coauthor of a widely cited study about the connection between climate and the Syrian civil war. [email protected] | 845-365-8743
Benjamin Cook is a leading researcher on temperature and drought, and their relation to climate, especially in the western U.S. He is based at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. [email protected] | 212-678-5669 | Rising temperatures in the U.S. West Bring Megadrought
Jason Smerdon is a climatologist and frequent public communicator who studies the history and future of extreme weather, including droughts and extreme snow and rain. [email protected] | Winter Extremes: So Last Year? | How the West Got Set Up for a Water Crisis
Mingfang Ting is an atmospheric physicist who studies the regional effects of climate change including the jet stream on droughts and extreme precipitation including rain and snow in North America and elsewhere. [email protected] | 845-365-8374 | Riding the Waves of Climate
Klaus Jacob, special research scientist, is expert in the consequences of coastal storms. A longtime advisor to New York City on climate adaptation, he accurately predicted the flooding of the subways during Hurricane Sandy. [email protected] | 845-365-8440
Radley Horton, a climate scientist, has done a wide variety of interdisciplinary work on the physics of storms, their interaction with climate, and the socioeconomic risk factors, especially in coastal areas. He has advised the mayor New York City and the U.S. president on climate and weather risks. [email protected] | 845-365-8496
Kai Kornhuber, a postdoctoral researcher at the Earth Institute, studies the physics behind extreme weather including persistent, heavy downpours that can lead to widespread flooding. [email protected]
Yochanan Kushnir studies climate variability and change, particularly in regard to the influence of the oceans. Much of his work focuses on the Atlantic, and how it influences weather during all seasons across North America, Europe, Africa and the Mideast. [email protected] | 845-365-8669
Yutian Wu studies the general circulation of the atmosphere including jet streams and storm tracks. She is interested in the decline of Arctic sea ice, and how this in turn may be linked to increasingly extreme weather in temperate latitudes—heat waves, cold spells, and big storms. [email protected] | 845-365-8157
Chia-Ying Lee, is an expert on tropical cyclones/hurricanes, how they intensify, their relationship to climate, and how we assess their potential risks. [email protected] | 845-680-4523
Kyle Mandli studies the physics of destructive waves including tsunamis, debris flows, and especially storm surges related to hurricanes. He is an assistant professor at Columbia’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math. [email protected] | 212-854-4485
Michela Biasutti studies the dynamics of the tropical atmosphere, focusing on precipitation patterns, extreme weather and climate change. She has a particular interest in the Sahel region of Africa. [email protected] | 845-365-8512
Lorenzo Polvani is an atmospheric scientist with a wide variety of interests in climate variability and change, including tropical cyclones, the influence of the Arctic on other regions, and related issues. [email protected] | 845-365-8347
Andrew Robertson, head of the climate group at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, studies the relationship between medium-term climate swings and extreme weather including floods and droughts. [email protected] | 845-680-4491
Andrew Kruckiewicz is a staff associate at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society who studies flash floods, how they may be compounded by other hazards, and subsequent organization of relief; he has worked internationally with the Red Cross. [email protected]
Mona Hemmati researches extreme weather events including storm surge and flash flooding, and assesses actions communities can take to resist or retreat from them. [email protected]
Michael Tippett is a meteorologist in the Department of Applied Physics and Math who specializes in the study of tornadoes, and how to forecast them. [email protected] | 845-680-4420
Marcus van Lier-Walqui studies the genesis of thunderstorms and the tornadoes they sometimes spin off, including the possible roles that climate and air pollution could play. [email protected] | 212-678-5513
Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center, leads studies of the natural and manmade factors that cause inland flooding, and how they might be mitigated. [email protected] 212-854-8905
EXTREME WEATHER: HEAT/COLD WAVES
How Can We Make Heat Waves Less Deadly?
Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, heads Columbia’s Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate. He assesses extreme weather including the causes of extreme cold and hot spells, and related social issues. [email protected] | 212-854-6587 Adam Sobel, others on heat waves | Sobel testifies to Congress
Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty, studies large-scale cycles such as El Niño that influence weather, including extreme bouts of heat. His studies of drought and heat waves in the U.S. West are widely cited. [email protected] | 845-365-8743
Benjamin Cook is a leading researcher on temperature and heat waves and their relation to climate, especially in the western U.S. He is based at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. [email protected] | 212-678-5669 | Rising temperatures in the U.S. West Bring Megadrought
Radley Horton, a climate scientist, has done a wide variety of interdisciplinary work on climate, including heat waves. He is coauthor of several key studies exploring literal killer combinations of heat and humidity. He has advised the mayor New York City and the U.S. president on climate risks. [email protected] | 845-365-8496 Global emergence of fatal heat/humidity
Yutian Wu studies the general circulation of the atmosphere including jet streams and storm tracks. She is particularly interested in the decline of Arctic sea ice, and how this may be linked to extended heat waves and cold spells. [email protected] | 845-365-8157
Kai Kornhuber, a postdoctoral researcher at the Earth Institute, studies the physics behind extreme weather including persistent heat waves around the world that endanger humans, crops and ecosystems. [email protected] | Persistent heat in a warming world| How climate will worsen simultaneous heat waves
Simon Mason, based at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, produces seasonal weather forecasts around the world, including for heat waves. He works with other professionals to make U.S. eastern cities more resilient to heat waves. [email protected] | Let’s name heat waves, just like hurricanes
Hannah Nissan is a physicist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society who works on seasonal to subseasonal early warning systems for heat waves and adaptation plans, particularly in the Caribbean and South Asia. [email protected]
Mingfang Ting is an atmospheric physicist who studies the regional effects of climate change on heat waves as well as droughts and extreme precipitation in North America and elsewhere. [email protected] | 845-365-8374
Robbie M. Parks is an environmental epidemiologist. Robbie is primarily interested in understanding the impact that climate, weather (via rising temperatures, hurricanes, floods, wildfires), and air pollution can have on illness, mortality, and life expectancy. [email protected] | Rising Temperatures Will Cause More Fatal Injuries
Elisaveta Petkova studies the health effects of climate change and extreme heat on urban populations including in New York City. [email protected]
EARTHQUAKES & TSUNAMIS
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory deploys seismologists across the world to study earthquakes on land and under the sea, as well as manmade quakes including from nuclear tests. Until recently, in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey the observatory ran the Lamont Cooperative Seismic Network, displaying northeast U.S. quake information in real time.
Won-Young Kim heads the Lamont Cooperative Seismic network, covering the northeast United States. He is also expert in seismicity related to hydraulic fracking, nuclear explosions or other human activities, and in quakes that occur in unusual places within the continents. [email protected] | 845-365-8387 / 8583
Cecilia McHugh is a marine geologist who focuses on undersea environments, with an eye to documenting signs of past earthquakes and tsunamis, and improving hazard forecasts in quake-prone areas. She has worked off Haiti, Japan, Bangladesh and Turkey. [email protected] | 845-365-8648
Leonardo Seeber responds to northeast U.S. quakes. He also works extensively in quake-prone areas of Italy, India, Bangladesh, Turkey and other nations. He is expert in manmade quakes. [email protected] | 845-365-8385
Folarin Kolawole is a structural geologist who studies the origins of a variety of seismic events, from slow continental rifting to earthquakes induced by human activities. His work spans locations from Brazil to the south-central United States, and many areas of Africa. [email protected]
Arthur Lerner-Lam is a research professor at Lamont-Doherty. He has studied big earthquakes in many parts of the world, including China and Haiti. He also studies the socioeconomic factors that make people vulnerable to quakes. [email protected] | 845-365-8348
Michael Steckler has assessed major seismic threats in Bangladesh, India, Turkey, Italy and other nations. His studies have revealed major threats in large areas, especially in southeast Asia and the Mediterrean. [email protected] |845-365-8479 | A Giant Earthquake May Lurk Under Bangladesh
Christopher Scholz is expert in the mechanics of earthquakes, and the possibility of quake forecasting. He has worked in Africa, and is particularly interested in quakes along the U.S. West Coast. [email protected] | 845-365-8360
John Armbruster has worked in the U.S. Northeast, Pakistan and the Himalaya, among other places. He is highly knowledgeable about both natural and manmade quakes. [email protected] | 845-365-8556
Anne Becel is a geophysicist specializing in undersea structures that can cause earthquakes and tsunamis. She has worked off Alaska, Mexico and other places. [email protected] | 845-365-8813
Spahr Webb is a seismologist specializing in undersea earthquakes and their consequences, including tsunamis. He has worked globally, including in the east and west Pacific, and off Alaska. [email protected] | 845-365-8439
Rob Skarbek is a seismologist who studies rock mechanics, and the physics of how earthquakes get started. [email protected]
Eric Beaucé is a geophysicist who is refining ways to detect and locate tiny earthquakes, and understand their implications for the occurrence of larger ones. [email protected]
Brian Boston is a geophysicist who studies natural hazards including earthquakes and volcanoes by mapping the sub-seafloor, particularly along subduction zones and continental rifted margins. [email protected] | 845-365-8472
Kyle Mandli studies the physics of destructive waves including tsunamis caused by earthquakes. He is an assistant professor at Columbia’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math. [email protected] | 212-854-4485
Meredith Nettles has worked globally. Her specialty is earthquakes that occur within glaciers, particularly in Greenland. [email protected] | 845-365-8613
George Deodatis, a member of the Earth Engineering Center, assesses the earthquake resistance of buildings, bridges and other structures. [email protected] | 212-854-9728
VOLCANOES
Terry Plank, a geochemist, studies the deep-earth forces that drive explosive volcanoes. Winner of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, she has worked in Alaska, the continental United States, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico and islands in the Pacific Ocean. [email protected] |845-365-8410 | Terry Plank, Volcano Maven
William Menke is highly knowledgeable in general volcanology, seismology and geology, especially in volcanoes related to mid-ocean spreading ridges and hot spots. He has worked in Iceland and the U.S. [email protected] | 845-304-5381
Conor Bacon is developing methods to forecast volcanic eruptions using seismic data. His work has taken him to farflung places including Iceland and Borneo. [email protected]
Cornelia Class is a geochemist and field geologist highly knowledgeable in general volcanology. She has analyzed volcanic rocks in Africa, Panama and many other places. [email protected] | 845-365-8712
Einat Lev studies the physics of lava flows, and how they interact with topography and human structures. She is also knowledgeable about many other aspects of volcanoes. She has worked in Hawaii, Japan, Chile, Iceland and other nations. [email protected] | 845-365-8616 | In Hawaii, Living With Lava
Peter Kelemen, a geochemist and geologist, studies igneous rocks in many areas of the world, from the Aleutian Islands to Oman. He is particularly interested in deep-earth processes that drive volcanism. [email protected] | 845-365-8728
Yves Moussallam specializes in studying the gases that volcanoes emit, which can present both immediate dangers and longer-term effects on climate. He works in many remote areas of the world. [email protected] | 845-365-8710 | Exploring How Volcanoes Affect Climate
Vicki Ferrini is a marine geologist who has been involved in studies of volcanoes that arise from the ocean floors. [email protected] | 845-365-8339
LANDSLIDES, GLACIAL OUTBURST FLOODS
Göran Ekström is a seismologist who studies landslides worldwide, with a special interest in assessing and mitigating hazards. He has worked extensively in Alaska, Nepal and other areas, where he has shown that seismology can be used to detect glacial outburst floods, caused by sudden failures dams holding back meltwater lakes. [email protected] | 845-365-8742 | At a Melting Glacier, a Huge Flood Threat
Joerg Schaefer is a glacial geologist who in part studies the factors that can lead up to glacial outburst floods in the Himalayas and elsewhere, and how seismicity may be used to study them. [email protected] | Seismic Monitoring May Improve Warnings of Glacial Outburst Floods
Benjamin Orlove, an anthropologist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, studies communities that live near glaciers, and how glacial outburst floods or other phenomena may affect them. [email protected] | 212-854-1543 | Seismic Monitoring May Improve Warnings of Glacial Outburst Floods
Chiara Lepore studies extreme rainfall events, and their links to starting landslides. Among other places, she has worked in Puerto Rico. [email protected] | 845-680-4515
WILDFIRES
Benjamin Cook is a leading researcher on temperature, drought and climate, and their implications including for wildfires in the western United States. He is based at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. [email protected] | 212-678-5669
Lisa Dale is a lecturer in the Earth Institute’s Sustainable Development Program who has served in both public and academic positions where she studied wildfire prevention and response in public lands, especially in the U.S. West. [email protected]
Ruth DeFries is an Earth Institute professor who studies large-scale human interactions with the surface of the earth, including studies of controlled and uncontrolled agricultural fires in Asia and South America, and their effects on greenhouse gas emissions, air quality and public health. [email protected] | 212-851-1647
Robert Field is a research scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He has helped develop fire danger rating systems for Canada, Indonesia and Malaysia. He currently studies the effects of the water cycle on fires, and the cause, fate and effects of emissions from fires. [email protected] | 212-678-5600 |El Nino and Fire Risk
Nancy Kiang of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies examines atmospheric moisture, vegetation, clouds and other factors that can play into wildfire risk and spread. [email protected] | 212.678.5553
Andrew Kruczkiewicz of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society uses remote sensing to map out temperature and precipitation patterns and how wildfire risk may intersect with other natural hazards, with an eye to helping authorities plan potential responses. [email protected]
Keren Mezuman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Climate Systems Research. Among other things, she models how climate variations and global atmospheric circulation affect the start and spread of fires, and particularly how the resulting emissions affect the atmosphere. [email protected] | 212-678-5669
Pierre Gentine works across wide areas of the world to understand the interactions of moisture in the atmosphere, vegetation and soil, the risk of wildfire that can sometimes result. [email protected]
Caroline Juang is a PhD. candidate at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who uses satellite imagery to study wildfires, particularly in the U.S. West. [email protected]
Jatan Buch is member of an interdisciplinary group studying the factors that cause wildfires, including climate, vegetation and atmospheric conditions, along with mapping vulnerable populations. His work currently centers on the U.S, West. [email protected]
ENERGY/POWER OUTAGES
Romany Webb of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law studies the factors that cause energy grids to fail, and ways to make them more resilient to climate-related impacts including floods and cold and heat waves. [email protected]
Joan Casey and her team study a wide range of public-health effects stemming from climate-related power outages and wildfires across the United States. [email protected]
Melissa Lott, a senior research scholar and the director of research at the Center on Global Energy Policy, is an expert on the power sector and energy systems. [email protected]
Vijay Modi, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Earth and Environmental Engineering, works closely with city and national agencies/utilities to understand how energy services can be more accessible, more efficient, and cleaner. [email protected]
Upmanu Lall, and engineer and director of the Columbia Water Center, is working with colleagues to study the prospect of disastrous “energy droughts.” [email protected] | 212-854-8905 | Could ‘Energy Droughts’ Be Next?
AIR and WATER POLLUTION
Roísín Commane is an atmospheric scientist who tracks the sources of greenhouse gases and other types of pollutants as they move from ground to air throughout the world, including in and around New York City. Her research is conducted from both aircraft and on the ground. [email protected] | 845-365-8571 | New York Greenhouse Gases| Profile of Commane
Steven Chillrud studies air pollution in both rural and urban areas, especially fine particles of soot and metals, and their health effects. Among other things, he has led projects to track pollutants in fine details in real time, using sensors attached to bikers. [email protected] | 845-365-8893 | Is City Biking Hazardous to Your Health? | Dust Risk for Subway Workers
Robert Field is a research scientist at Columbia and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who studies wildfires, including the causes, movements and effects of emissions from fires. [email protected] | 212-678-5600 | El Nino and Fire Risk
V. Faye McNeill is an Earth Institute researcher who focuses on the chemistry and physics of small-particle pollution, including soot, in the atmosphere, along with their relations to climate. [email protected] | 212-854-2869 | Covid-19 and the Air We Breathe
Dan Westervelt studies air pollution and its relationship to climate change in both urban and rural areas in Africa and elsewhere. He is leading a pioneering project to track pollution in African cities where currently little data has been gathered. [email protected] | 845-365-8194 | The Alarming Numbers on Air Pollution
Garima Raheja studies air pollution in the U.S. and abroad, and its implications for environmental justice. [email protected] | Addressing Environmental Issues of Air Pollution
Susanne Bauer, based at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, studies how human-generated and natural emissions including those from agricultural operations influence atmospheric chemistry, climate, and air pollution. [email protected] | 212-678-5666 | A Major Source of Air Pollution: Farms
Kostas Tisgaridis is an atmospheric chemist who studies the movements and effects of aerosols around the world, including manmade pollutants and the constituents of volcanic eruptions. [email protected] | 212-678-5668
Olivia Clifton is an atmospheric chemist who studies the movements of various pollutants through the air and their interactions with land, including fine-particulate matter and smoke. [email protected] | 212-678-5558
David Rosner is a historian who studies the sources and health effects of industrial and mining pollution including asbestos, lead, PCBs and silica, along with the interactions of pollution with changing climate. He is the author of numerous books. [email protected]
Alexander van Geen, a geochemist, studies how arsenic, heavy metals and other dangerous substances enter and spread through drinking water, either naturally or through human action. Much of his work focuses on southeast Asia, but he also works in the U.S. [email protected] | 845-365-8644
Benjamin Bostick, a geochemist, studies how arsenic and a variety of other pollutants enter and spread through drinking water. He works in both Asia and the U.S., including on Native American lands. [email protected] | 845-365-8659
Beizhan Yan is a geochemist who analyzes the relationship between hydrofracking and groundwater pollution, the prevalance of plastics in surface waters, and other types of water pollution, mainly in the U.S. northeast. [email protected] | 845-365-8155
Andrew Juhl is a biological oceanographer who studies how sewage and other pollutants move through surface water. He has worked on the Hudson River, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Arctic. [email protected] | 845-365-8837
Ajit Subramaniam is a biological oceanographer who studies the effects of sewage, oil and other pollutants in coastal areas from Africa to Asia. Among other things, he has investigated the the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [email protected] | 845-365-8641
Timothy Crone, a marine geophysicist, specializes in studying underwater physics. He produced the first credible estimate of the magnitude of the great 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, revealing its true extent. [email protected] | 845-365-8687
Christopher Zappa is an oceanographer specializing in upper-ocean and estuary processes including turbulence, currents and waves that influence how pollutants may spread through ocean and estuary waters. [email protected] | 845-365-8547
Joaquim Goes, a biological oceanographer, studies the factors that drive blooms of harmful plankton, known commonly in some areas as “red tides.” His work ranges from the Amazon to the Arabian Sea. He also studies the prevalence of plastics in coastal waters. [email protected] | 845-365-8467
Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center, studies the causes of water pollution both biological and chemical, and ways to prevent and mitigate it. [email protected] 212-854-8905
LOCUST PLAGUES
Azhar Ehsan, a postdoctoral scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, studies climate and climate change in the locust belt, from northern Africa through the Mideast and India. [email protected]
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Michael Gerrard directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He has had a long career in all aspects of local, national and international environmental law, including litigation related to pollution. [email protected] | 212-854-3287
Michael Burger is executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He has studied a wide variety of environmental issues, including pollution control. [email protected] | 212-854-2372
WARFARE/CIVIL CONFLICT
Josh Fisher is director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4), which seeks to resolve the conditions that lead to violent conflict. Fisher has a focus on extractive industries; he works in Asia, South America, Africa and Europe. [email protected] | 435-764-0383
Peter Coleman is co-executive director of AC4. He studies multicultural conflicts, and ways to resolve seemingly intractable conflicts. He is the author of 2021 book The Way Out: How to Escape Toxic Polarization. [email protected] | 212-678-3112
See also our expert resources on the Ukraine-Russia war.
NUCLEAR ISSUES
Paul Richards is a seismologist who has refined the modern techniques used to detect nuclear blasts, and their application to arms control. He has studied nuclear explosions in Russia, Kazakhstan and North Korea, among other places. [email protected] | 845-365-8389
Won-Young Kim, a seismologist, has worked on techniques to detect nuclear test explosions across the world, with a particular focus on North Korea. [email protected] | 845-365-8387 | North Korea’s 2017 Bomb Test and Earthquakes
Lynn Sykes is a seismologist who helped refine techniques for detecting nuclear test explosions across the world. As a technical advisor, he has been involved in evaluating key international treaties for the United States. [email protected] | 845-365-8880 | Q&A with Sykes
Timothy Kenna, a geochemist, studies the spread of radioactive substances in the environment. [email protected] | 845-365-8513
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