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Welcome to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. The department offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and has facilities located on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
Among the faculty participating in the 2009 commencement ceremonies were (left to right) Professors Kevin Griffin, Peter Eisenberger, Sidney Hemming, Nick Christie-Blick, Peter deMenocal, Paul Richards, John Mutter, and Steve Goldstein.
Check out our first senior profiles for a window into undergraduate life in the department.
Department seniors in the Environmental Science Senior thesis Research Seminar participated in the Sixth Annual Senior Thesis Poser Session on April 23rd. Each gave a one-minute introduction to their topic, followed by a reception and poster presentation period !
Congratulations to graduating senior Yasemin Erboy for earning Departmental Honors for performance in her environmental science major, and for achieving early Phi Beta Kappa status (top 2% of the Columbia College graduating class). Yasemin will enter the graduate program in environmental management at Yale in September !
Kim Kastens has just won the American Geophysical Union's 2009 Excellence in Geophysical Education Award for sustained commitment to geophysics education. She will receive the award in Toronto on May 26. Congratulations, Kim!
Professor Wallace S. Broecker, a geochemist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has received the newly founded Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change Research. An international jury awarded Broecker the $527,000 prize, one of the world's largest science awards, for his early warnings about climate change, and for his pioneering work on ocean-atmosphere interactions. See Earth Institute News for complete story.
Photo © Columbia University
Visiting Professor Albrecht Hofmann has just spent Spring 09 semester with us, where he taught a seminar called "Solid Earth Geochemistry: Hot and Noble Topics." Dr. Hofmann is the recently retired Director of the Geochemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie in Mainz, Germany; Adjunct Professor at the University of Mainz; and a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He plans to be back again next Spring (2010) to teach some other hot topics
Congratulations to Professors Steve Goldstein & Roger Buck , who were
elected as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union. These honors are awarded
each year to 0.1 percent of the AGU membership. Profs. Goldstein & Buck
join 15 other members of the active DEES faculty, and 5 emeritus faculty,
all of whom are also AGU Fellows -- i.e., 35% of our active faculty (41%
including emeriti). Get the full story at On
Campus.
View Photos from DEES gala retirement event in September 2008 honoring retirees Denny Hayes, Jim Hays, Paul Richards, David Rind, Bill Ryan, Jim Simpson, & Lynn Sykes.
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