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These women are helping to unravel the mysteries and mechanics of Earth.
Volcanologist Einat Lev tackles reader questions and explains how more monitoring of volcanoes could save lives.
She takes care of hundreds of kilometers of deep-sea sediments that are invaluable to science, and recently received a mentorship award.
Paleoecologist Kevin Uno explains how humans have been adapting to changes in climate for thousands of years, and how we need to adapt now to protect our species’ future.
We’ve lost 28 trillion tons of ice globally in 24 years, from 1994 to 2017, and the implications for sea level rise could be significant.
Climate scientist Radley Horton tackles questions about climate tipping points, and how we can tip the scales in a safer direction.
For her work toward charting the global ocean floor, scientist Vicki Ferrini has been named by the Explorer Club as one of 50 people changing the world.
Three goals for the Biden administration as it seeks to put science-based responses at the center of its policy initiatives.
Climate scientist Gisela Winckler explains the link between climate science and solutions, and shares some of her research adventures.
Scientists are working to improve their calculations of earthquake danger by combining maps of known faults with the use of supercomputers to simulate potential shaking deep into the future in California.
Researchers have reconstructed past sea levels in the western Mediterranean in new detail by sampling coastal cave formations.
The Lamont-Doherty physical oceanographer was recently awarded early career honors from the Oceanography Society.
Large numbers of icebergs that drifted unusually far from Antarctica before melting into ocean waters have been key to initiating ice ages of the past, says a new study.
She is a division administrator at Lamont and one of the 2020 recipients of the Earth Institute Distinguished Staff Award.
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